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Rena Washimi, a former TV Tokyo announcer now working as a freelancer, made headlines after revealing she was sitting on a “-¥192,200” unrealized loss amid a sharp Nikkei plunge. The report got picked up on 5ch’s Geinou/Sports News+ board, spawning a thread where individual investors started trading stories about their own unrealized gains and losses. The debate centered on how to size up the scale of Washimi’s loss, with some scoffing that it barely qualified as newsworthy and others — nursing their own stock losses — offering sympathetic nods instead. Some also pointed out the gap between her TV Tokyo background and her apparent grasp of how the stock market works.
Rena Washimi admits to a big stock ‘unrealized loss’ — to jeers of ‘don’t get cocky,’ replies pour in with ‘Mine’s easily triple digits’
Rena Washimi, a freelance announcer formerly of TV Tokyo, has revealed she’s carrying a sizable stock market ‘unrealized loss.’
Washimi reported that, amid the Nikkei average’s steep drop, she’s sitting on an unrealized loss of “-¥192,200.” The news quickly made the rounds online.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
it'll save you (a reference to "FX Trader Kurumi-chan," a manga/anime about a girl ruined by FX trading)
>Go watch the Kurumi-chan anime
>it'll save you
Well, less "Kurumi-chan" and more the fact that the original author is the real deal — an actual hardcore trader
so honestly, it's not that funny
Though apparently these days there's talk he's up overall, lol
FX Warrior Kurumi-chan? What even is that, lol
Wasn't the ending that she either gets bailed out by her dad or files for bankruptcy?
Give me my money back!!! (crying)
so she's not really in any trouble either
There's a small dream that if Kurumi-chan ever goes mainstream, he could live off the royalties
There's also the great story about him ignoring an email from a Kadokawa editor because he assumed it was a scam, lol
Anyway, the story's too real — an anime that isn't funny might just be a dealbreaker
during the 'Ueda Shock,' even with only about ¥2,000,000 invested, I blew past a ¥200,000 loss with ease
and after 5 years, still zero sign my assets will ever grow
Nikkei might hit the ¥40,000 range too
is everyone really that good at investing?
You're still fine
I once put ¥2,000,000 into an IPO stock and ended up dumping it for ¥100,000
back then I was torn between buying Nintendo or that IPO stock
…and I was the idiot who picked the IPO
Overall I'm up about ¥7,000,000
but I carelessly tried to catch a falling knife on a certain semiconductor stock
and that one stock alone has an unrealized loss of over ¥1,000,000 (lol)
what do I even do
for now I'm planning to just sit tight and watch until year-end…
if you only started last year and you're already triple digits in the hole, what stocks are you even buying?
you've got zero sense for this
>I once put ¥2,000,000 into an IPO stock and ended up dumping it for ¥100,000
the basic move with IPOs is to sell right at the open
yeah, I was clueless back then and hadn't studied stocks at all
just stick to an All-Country index fund ('Orikan')
I bought in August so my All-Country fund's in the red
barely staying in the black thanks to a Japan stock ETF
because it's also a world where you can make a million yen just as easily
guess once you quit, you're free to trade?
why would that be the case, lol
if you had a story that good, you'd be famous on X by now
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Washimi disclosed her stock loss herself, but it’s worth noting that an “unrealized loss” is just a paper loss based on current valuation before selling — not a finalized, realized loss. Treating it simply as a “loss amount” without that distinction misses the nuance. What split opinion on the thread was how to gauge the scale of the “-¥192,200” figure a celebrity chose to make public. Among individual investors, carrying unrealized losses in the millions or tens of millions of yen is far from unusual, so reactions ranged from “don’t make a fuss over an amount that small” to “once you’re trading with disposable income, the size of the number doesn’t matter.” Her background as a former TV Tokyo announcer also drew criticism along the lines of “shouldn’t she know better about finance?” — though knowledge gained from covering the news professionally and one’s own personal investment judgment are two different things, and the two don’t necessarily contradict each other. One thing readers should watch out for: in the thread, “triple digits” gets used inconsistently — some mean hundreds of thousands of yen (in man-yen units), others mean literal yen amounts — so the numbers being thrown around aren’t actually apples-to-apples.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Celebrity] Rena Washimi admits to a big stock ‘unrealized loss’ — to jeers of ‘don’t get cocky,’ replies with ‘My unrealized loss is easily triple digits’.”
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