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The person left holding the bag. And yes, it’s a specific role in market mythology, distinct from just owning a losing position. Bag holders are late entrants to a hype cycle who buy near the top, then watch the people who got in early sell into their enthusiasm and walk away clean.
The classic bag-holder situation has three ingredients: a story (the asset will moon), a crowd (everyone’s talking about it), and a quiet exit (the smart money is already leaving). By the time retail piles in, the rally is already someone else’s profit. That’s not always how it plays out, but it’s the prototype.
You can be a bag holder of anything: stocks, tokens, NFTs, IPO allocations, options on biotech that needed FDA approval and didn’t get it. The asset class doesn’t matter; the dynamic does.
Example: Anyone who bought Luna at $80 in early May 2022, days before TerraUSD lost its peg and Luna collapsed to fractions of a cent, became a bag holder in roughly 72 hours. Many still haven’t sold. There’s nothing left to sell.
