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You might got lucky or not, but your comment is very dangerous for the people who have no idea and haven't been in the field. FAANG compensation is not peasant to billions of people, so please don't do that.
I made the money myself, I didn’t get lucky. Edit: The money was made over a 100 trades
I've wrote this elsewhere. The thing that's clicked for me after reading the comments on wsb is that populism, amplified by the modern internet, is going to radically change the finance world in a similar way to how it radically changed our political landscape. These people aren't just investing in GME to enrich themselves. They are doing it to spite the people who they percieve as rigging the game. They are doing it…
I think this is more like beanie babies all over again. Except now that its easier to trade its happening in stocks. Populism of a companies stock doesnt really change the performance of that company. GME will implode eventually and the newest suckers or WSB will be left holding the bag.
Retail investors are supposed to buy and hold all of the stocks, because they couldn't possibly be smart enough to pick the good ones. Hedge funds are supposed to be allowed to naked short the stocks they don't like into oblivion, transferring wealth from retail investors to hedge funds. The hysteria and pearl clutching at this wealth transfer being reversed is hilarious.
> Hedge funds are supposed to be allowed to naked short the stocks they don't like into oblivion Naked shorting has been illegal for a decade: https://money.cnn.com/2008/09/17/news/companies/sec_short_se...
Retail investors are supposed to buy and hold all of the stocks, because they couldn't possibly be smart enough to pick the good ones. Hedge funds are supposed to be allowed to naked short the stocks they don't like into oblivion, transferring wealth from retail investors to hedge funds. The hysteria and pearl clutching at this wealth transfer being reversed is hilarious.
> Hedge funds are supposed to be allowed to naked short the stocks they don't like into oblivion Naked shorting has been illegal for a decade: https://money.cnn.com/2008/09/17/news/companies/sec_short_se...
The only person really winning here is Ken Griffin.
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A whole generation is not YOLOing. We’re just trying to keep a roof over our heads.
The argument is that we’re working to keep a roof over our heads now because we YOLOed through college. And while that doesn’t describe me, I had a lot of peers who partied through college, skipped classes, hardly worked, majored in women’s studies / art history / literature / etc and still managed to live in the dorms, buy daily lattes, have the latest iPhones, etc.
Nor me. I worked throughout all of undergrad. My work paid for my grad degree. I have an MSEE and am looking at $50k of student debt. My income is such that I expect the only way my debt will go away in the next ten years is through PSLF. Owning a house before I’m 40? I’m not so sure. Where exactly is the YOLO? The generation didn’t piss anything away. We’re getting shafted.
> The same emotion that caused us to root for the thieves in Ocean’s 11 is what makes Wall Street Bets so enticing. Put frankly, Millennials are tired of getting fucked by the man. When you’re underemployed with $100,000 in student loan debt, your financial situation feels overwhelming. You really don’t want to take the advice of your parents or CNBC talking heads [5] to invest 10% of your salary for a 4% annual retu…
>It's a never-ending shit-show. At least some of us are getting rich in /r/wallstreetbets. This is sad because most of what you've said can be applied to lotteries as well, which historically has been criticized as being a "tax" on the poor. The end result is the same: people putting themselves in a worse place financially (on average), just so they can cope with their bleak existence.
The jury is still deliberating whether WSB is an effective cartel or not. At the end of the day, the members total investment is so small that it doubtfully makes any difference. It is probably more analogous to Ed Thorp's Beat the Dealer. He devised an algorithm to count cards. Ran a simulation on a computer at MIT, got bankrolled, and went to Reno to test it in person. Why didn't he continue counting cards in Nevad…
>> You never hear about people losing money in Vegas, only about that one time someone won big. It's the same with WSB, sort of. I'm not sure about that. This guy[0] lost his life savings investing in ornamental gourd futures. Its actually a pretty comical account simply to me because it seems so absurd. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kzoh1c/i_am...
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No I made this money myself. In any time in basically the last decade, if you leveraged up on the SPY or QQQ, you are now retired. People are too risk averse, they will be stuck in a job forever
How do we replicate your success?