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And for sure, for a short position you would have to pay also the price of the instrument, which includes all the parameters/leverage? Shorts are in a way more efficient that the financing costs are working a liiiiitttle bit towards you, because of the interbanking rate that the issuer is applying, but this is negligibe for singe positions below 1m - and in reverse, with 1m per position, you wont use turbos, usually, its not the optimal instrument in those cases, in most cases

But nontheless, you as instrument user pay something, for sure.

It is somehow comparable but with a CFD you are betting against the market maker /issuer of the CFD, while with a turbo you bet against the market directly - the issuer is just arranging the countposition in the background.

The loss is implemented by a knockout value, depending on your leverage. In all EU countries there is no margin call allowed for retailers, but this is not relevant for turbos anyway. The loss is included in the deprecation of the price of the turbo, the issuer is just the middleman, being neutral. Compared to a CFD issuer, which can print whatever price it wants. With a turbo, the price of the turbo instrument is connected by a simple formula with the underlying price.

A turbo has an ISIN, and is highly regulated by the Financial Supervision Authorities.

Actually, turbos are a professoinal instrument but they are sold to retailers as well in most countries.

Not true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_(finance)

There are, as said, depending on juristic regime, products which do not let you lose more than you invested.

On top of this comes national regulation: E.g. in some EU countries, retail traders are exempt from s.c. "margin calls" and the broker is required by regulation to "just close and not ask for more"

Source: Im living in one of these EU countries

haha, you CAN, but you WONT - here is why: The thing is, when you leave university and you have tasted the first salary, it usually does not happen that you go back to university and have a 50-60% cut becuse of being a student again. From my earlier cycles, NONE of the "i-will-finish-MA/MS-later-while-in-the-job" succeeded - and these were people much more intelligent than me: The minute you leave university and say "i-will-be-back", the future you imagine will never matrialize in 99.5% cases

If the CS master is free(!), then go for it.

If you have to pay -lets say- 30.000 bucks, rethink.

The additional time of being student will open you newer doors, than if you are already working - assumption: IF the CS master is free, otherwise it may not pay off

Being a student is a huge privilege in most countries accordings to different costs/fees/taxes - so I recommend everyone to keep this status, as long AS IT IS FREE and legally possible.

Esp the last wording: "friction with parents" (which is by the way are very noble wording here, I have to state)

I have not met ANY regular drug user (regardless which drugs), who didnt had "frictions with parents" early in their life. (and some for which its still persisting into their 40ies)

Last sentence:

Quite true! Game Dev (and Graphics Programming) should be fun - though in todays environments, its everything apart from fun.

Honestly: For me today, writing boring business/workflow/CRUD/shop applications is the fun I should have had when being in GFX-programming - I do not know why its not fun to work for a game dev company.