📉 This Month in Regret: Champagne, Crypto, and Coaching Scams

RIX Report – Q3 Week 2

TL;DR

  • Regret sentiment dipped 3.4% across all tracked sectors this week. For the year’s worst decisions, see Annual Regret Awards.
  • The biggest losers: 🍾 Luxury FOMO, 💼 Professional Hype, and 🪙 Delusional Asset Classes. For the quarter’s worst offenders, see Top 5 Regret Assets to Short Immediately.
  • Recovery? Unlikely. Accountability? Unavailable. For the chain reaction of regret, see Regret Inflation.

🔍 Featured Assets This Week

🍾 Champagne on Credit

  • RIX Movement: -5.0% 🔻
  • Sector: Luxury Decisions
  • Sentiment: 😵 Buyer’s Remorse

Turns out popping bottles on borrowed money doesn’t age like Dom Pérignon. The thrill faded faster than the buzz, and now the only thing sparkling is the debt interest.
Recommendation: Liquidate immediately (the credit, not the champagne).

💼 Executive Coaching Scams

  • RIX Movement: -6.6% 🔻
  • Sector: Professional Hype
  • Sentiment: 🕳️ Leadership Void

You paid $4,000 to “find your inner CEO.” All you found was a calendar full of vague affirmations and one man named Trent who uses “synergy” as a verb.
Confidence did not increase. Clarity did not emerge. Bank account, however, noticeably declined.

📱 Social Token Investments

  • RIX Movement: -7.1% 🔻
  • Sector: Web3 Meltdowns
  • Sentiment: 😵‍💫 Regret Spiral Detected

Launched in a flurry of Discord hype and digital optimism, now abandoned like a forgotten Reddit AMA.
The dream: community-powered currency.
The reality: holding 800 units of “$VIBE” with zero liquidity and even less dignity.

📊 Bonus Decliners

Asset Change Sector Sentiment
🎤 Podcast Launch Fund +0.9% 🔺 Digital Noise 🤷 Slow Burn
📦 Subscription Box Stash -1.6% 🔻 Microspending 📦 Forgotten Commitments
🧃 Juice Cleanse Package -3.9% 🔻 Wellness Fads 🫤 Bitter Aftertaste

🧠 Suggested Hedging Strategies

  • Invest in quiet instead of microphones.
  • Replace hype with hydration.
  • When in doubt, don’t subscribe—just walk outside.

🧾 Final Note from the Ledger

This week’s RIX confirms what we already suspected:

The loudest ideas are often the fastest to depreciate.

We’ll be back next week with more regrettable movements and irrational decisions.
Until then: log wisely. Scroll carefully. Spin sparingly.

Tags: 📉 RIX-Related Posts, 💳 Consumer Traps, 🪙 Crypto Chaos