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I remember nasty 2022 as well , but still not convinced of $CVNA business model.

Personal experience ot doing my cars trade and sale at Carmax was way better and more efficient than Carvana . I do trade Carvana short , golden time at $HTZ trades over the early times taught me one thing , car industry is very complex and not reliable, look at $F for decades it was like 9 bucks , forever loser.

Your post is good as reminder to me again not to marrying stocks , except for dividends over 9% , and just trade in trend . Never get pissoff and try get even with losing position.

Good luck with employment, will pass along to my sources about your honest nature and great experience.

Regards ,

Alex

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Thank you for sharing this Richard, and happy to see you writing again!

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Thanks Alex! I appreciate you continuing to follow my journey.

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Happy to see you writing again!

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Great post Richard. It takes courage to be so transparent.

BTW, I laughed when you characterized CVNA as an Ugly Duckling. Were you aware that CVNA’s founder’s father ran a public company back in the 90s called Ugly Duckling? “Interesting” story

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Thanks! It's a bit ironic, shorts have often compared Carvana to Ugly Duckling and now I'm using it in a positive context. And the fact that management kept CVNA public in 2022 disproves that argument for good.

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Thanks for sharing this. 3 years ago, I stop trading cryptocurrencies because I over leveraged some positions even without a stop loss and the volatility swept by account over 90%.

It wasn’t a life saving, but it led me to very high yield crypto strategies with lesser risk

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