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by jmillikin 1295 days ago
A long position in an option can't be down more than 100%.

The only commonly traded way to lose more than you started with are futures (not available on most retail platforms) and CFDs (not legal in many markets, including the USA).
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bombcar 1295 days ago
Selling an uncovered call in theory (or selling a stock short) opens you to infinite losses - though brokerages are loathe to give you this capability it does exist.
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jmillikin 1295 days ago
Sure, but that's not what's being discussed in this thread.

"The riskiest stocks are down thousands of %" is untrue regardless of whether that position was in regular shares or /r/WSB style 10,000 calls expiring Friday.

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