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alpinemantoday at 1:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

Day trading too, and day trading led us down this path. Everyone is a gambler now. All morals are out the window.

On a side note, I find it incredible crypto trading/day trading/meme stock trading etc is not recognised as a bigger societal problem. It is 100% gambling and has the same negative externalities associated with it. But none of the tools gambling companies need to abide by (blocklists, warnings, limits, etc) apply to trading.


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KellyCriteriontoday at 3:10 PM

I do not know about daytrading, but trading in the long term works, if you have a (technical/IT) system.

Regarding meme stocks: I do not see how this should work compared to the "real market", as on the real market you have clear signals when it is useful to enter a position (e.g. institutional attention), but on the meme "stock" market lacking those features it is much much harder to make any money - unfortunately, a lot of young people are trying their fortuna