An $80 options bet became $10,000 on r/wallstreetbets
As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on November 7, 2026.
People dont understand how hard it is not to take 100, or 250, or 500 profit after covering the initial. You either forgot to look until the end of day or have some serious staying power.
An $80 options stake turned into roughly $10,000, and even the poster calls it a unicorn that shouldn't be copied. He's pulling the money out and moving it to a regular brokerage account.
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A wallstreetbets poster turned an $80 options stake on Mag7 names into roughly $10,000, a run he calls a unicorn that should not be replicated.
He warns in an edit that this outcome happens a vanishingly small fraction of the time, and that anyone who chases it and loses owns that loss.
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The top comment names the real obstacle: most traders would have taken a few hundred dollars and stopped. Holding through those exit temptations is the whole trade.
He is withdrawing the money into a regular brokerage account, converting a lottery-style options win into conventional long-term capital.