Billionaire investor Chris Sacca mocks 'Robinhood bros' for being reckless: 'Stonks never go down!'

• Venture capitalist Chris Sacca dismissed amateur traders' huge gains in 2020 as the product of lucky timing in a recent tweet.
• "To everyone who got into trading stocks this year, I have a little hard truth for you: You're not actually that good at it," the billionaire founder of Lowercase Capital and former "Shark Tank" star said.
• Sacca mockingly praised day traders in a follow-up tweet after weathering backlash for his comments.
• "To the angry Robinhood bros who got into trading stocks this year: I was wrong. You're amazing," he said. "Stonks never go down!"
• Sacca has repeatedly underscored the risks of trading stocks and other assets such as Bitcoin, especially with borrowed money.
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Newbie traders who scored massive windfalls in 2020 simply got lucky, billionaire investor Chris Sacca said in a $4.

"To everyone who got into trading stocks this year, I have a little hard truth for you: You're not actually that good at it," the former "Shark Tank" star and founder of venture-capital firm Lowercase Capital said. "You just caught a wild bull market. Take some money off the table."

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Sacca's comments were met with swift backlash. Dave Portnoy, the Barstool Sports founder who became the $4 earlier this year, $4 that he doesn't know who Sacca is, but the investor "sounds like a sore loser and an idiot."

The Lowercase chief - an early investor in Twitter, Uber, and Instagram - responded to the criticism with a $4 ridiculing Robinhood users, one of the most popular trading apps.

"To the angry Robinhood bros who got into trading stocks this year: I was wrong. You're amazing. This has nothing to do with the market. It's all you and your mad skillz. Don't take profits off the table. Double down, on margin. Borrow everything you can. Stonks never go down!"

In internet slang, stonks is a deliberate misspelling of stocks.

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Sacca - who made his fortune in the early 2000s then lost a huge chunk of it when the dot-com bubble burst - has repeatedly cautioned amateurs about trading risks, particularly with borrowed money.

"What percent of retail ownership of crypto is supported by leverage? What about stocks? I am beyond worried about the debt lessons that a generation of app traders weren't around to learn a cycle ago," Sacca $4 to a December 26 tweet by Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz underscoring the risks of excessive leverage.

"Don't borrow to trade stocks/BTC," Sacca $4 a few hours later.

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Sacca has issued similar warnings in the past.

"I'm here to tell you that trading millions of dollars you don't have is a thrilling way to ruin your health and financial future. Fun!" he $4 in November 2019.

"Investing is a great way to make money. Trading is a great way to lose it. Do yourself a favor and hide your "Stocks" app forever," Sacca $4 in 2013.

Sacca and his wife and business partner, Crystal, shifted their focus from day-to-day investing to tackling issues such as climate change, voter suppression, and criminal justice reform in early 2017.