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[martinuzz]

Stumbled upon this, hadn't seen this one before. Pretty darn cool, using Conway's Game of Life to play Conway's Game of Life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

[pisskop]

This month was a month of reckoning for my new job - amateur day trader.  I set a goal to make $3500, at least.  I'm well over that goal, I can say.

Im honestly not convinced this is a real job I can have.  It's only going to snowball, since I dont pay $3500 in bills.

[StrawBarrel]

I got college stuff done this week.  Putting in the work has made things a lot easier. \o/

[JoshuaFH]

This month was a month of reckoning for my new job - amateur day trader.  I set a goal to make $3500, at least.  I'm well over that goal, I can say.

Im honestly not convinced this is a real job I can have.  It's only going to snowball, since I dont pay $3500 in bills.

Is this not akin to professional gambling? I'd imagine you're never too far away from ruin, it'd only take a few bad days in a row. Though I don't know anything about daytrading, I only possess a lingering distrust of both gambling and capitalism.

[pisskop]

Well, I have lost a few thousand in one day, but in practice if you cut out at a pre-determined level then the losses never really add up.  I'm not recommending anyone here do it, but I seem to have rather good intuition and especially good timing.

I 'bet' tens of thousands a day, including on margin, but, at least for me, I typically ride a trend rather than invest or blindly day trade.

I'm currently telling myself that as long as I can ensure a high win/loss ratio it isnt gambling as much as statistical movement.


Also note that a loss on my end isnt a complete loss of funds as in traditional gambling.  If I lose, I lose anywhere from 1% to 5% of my trade, which is typically 2-10% of my portfolio.  what Ive been doing is finding volatile trades that I feel confident in, and going all in.

Macy's had a booming quarter? - all in long.  Up 5 points.
Nikola is a fraud? - All in short.

My bread and butter stocks are, uncoincidentally but unintentionally, related to meme stocks.  PTON, AMD, UPST, and Ford.  If I cant find something anywhere else, I tend to go here.

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Yes, its gambling, but only because I cant point to a product and say -I do that-.  Its kind of torn at me, tbh.

P: Dead serious though, it's not unusual for me to make or lose in a day what I used to make in a week in my older retail jobs. $700 a day is pretty reasonable, but no longer exceptional.  And Im just a relatively conservative small fish in a deep ocean.

[Gentlefish]

Man, I wish I had money when AMD was still $20/share. I knew it was going to explode but I didn't have any leverage to throw at it 

[TD1]

The broker I'm looking at charges £24 per quarter for a tax free ISA, then stamp duty and spread on top of that.

Seems like a fairly steep cost just to get started, but it's the best execute-only broker I've seen so far.

[JoshuaFH]

To go back to my deep love of stormy weather for a moment: This morning I was lying in my bed, half-awake, my 3 alarm clocks are going off, I'm too lazy to do anything other than just smack the snooze button on all 3 of them over and over, I'm just feeling like it's gonna be a nice, lazy day where I'll sleep in for a little while and.. *Loud Thunderclap* AW SHIT MY NEURONS ARE ACTIVATED NOW I'M READY TO GET UP AND ENJOY THIS FUCKING THUNDERSTORM BOIS!!!

[martinuzz]

I totally feel ya.

Thunderstorms always excite me, and make me play some AC/DC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM

[Naturegirl1999]

A thunderstorm started at like 1 or 2 am where I live. I like the light purple of lightning

[LordBaal]

She's thunderstorms...

[Naturegirl1999]

She's thunderstorms...

[Dunamisdeos]

I just got like a 5$/hr raise plus some monetary-related perks.

I am floored.

[Sirus]

Very nice! That's a pretty fantastic raise, and one well-deserved (or so I assume).

[Dunamisdeos]

Very nice! That's a pretty fantastic raise, and one well-deserved (or so I assume).

I'm going to assume so as well, XD

We've been underpaid for a long while, and now we are slightly above market rate. It's a very welcome change in tone for the company as a whole. I'm not the only one who got this attention. A lot of people who really deserved it got it.