Let's be brutally honest for a minute. Before we learned about risk management and realistic expectations (usually by losing a painful amount of money), we were all a little bit insane.

We all had that one beautifully stupid belief that we thought was our ticket to a Lambo.

Maybe you thought you'd found the "one weird trick" indicator that was never wrong. Maybe you believed you could turn $100 into $100,000 in a month, easy. Or my personal favorite: thinking you could just copy some influencer's trades without any of the risk.

So, let's air it out. What was the most idiotic, unhinged, completely delusional thing you truly believed about trading when you were a rookie?