Practical playbooks, tax help, and straight talk for anyone who's down on a crypto or stock trade and needs a plan back to green.
Step-by-step playbooks for what to do after a loss.
Market moves that matter, explained through a recovery lens.
The behavioral side of losing money — and how to think straight again.
Tax-loss harvesting and capital-loss guides for crypto and stocks.
Margin interest can be deducted as investment interest expense — but only up to your net investment income for the year, and a net capital loss doesn't count as income. Here's why the deduction often disappears in exactly the year you need it most.
A portfolio drop in the years right before or after retiring isn't the same problem as a drop mid-career — the order losses happen in can matter more than the size. Here's the actual plan: delaying withdrawals, adjusting the rate, and using Social Security as a hedge.
FTX's 2026 creditor distributions and Celsius's payouts are taxable events, not tax-free refunds — and because claims are valued at 2022 prices, many creditors owe tax on a gain, not a loss. Here's the actual math.
Impermanent loss shows up in your liquidity pool balance long before it shows up on any tax form — and for most people, it never becomes deductible on its own. Here's the actual mechanic, the math behind why it happens, and how it gets folded into your capital gain or loss only when you withdraw.
Airdropped crypto is taxed as ordinary income the moment you can control it, based on what it's worth that day — not what it's worth when you eventually sell. If the token later craters, the loss you get back is capped at $3,000 a year. How the rule actually works, with a worked example.
The IRS's own Office of Chief Counsel ruled in 2025 that pig-butchering crypto scam losses can qualify as a deductible theft loss under Section 165(c)(2) — but only if you can show profit motive, and a nearly identical romance-scam loss can be fully disallowed. Here's the actual test, the forms, and the math.