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How do you know the person's ideas are useful is my issue. With Reddit you have all sorts of comments, and you have no idea if this person is posting random ideas, or if they are actually good at what they do. The issue is who is going to engage here is my concern. StockTwits has it by stock which works and creates a conversation. Here the main page has daily stories, so the conversation has to occur right away.

Equating posts (news) with a change in price is not an investment idea. Most of the time, the news is counter to the way the stock moves in the short term. I think you need to find a way to differentiate yourself. The UI is nice and all the info available is great however I think you need a something to provide to your end user with respect to engagement/community, but news stories die so fast it's hard to create a conversation around that.

I hate to respond to this "rigged" word but the markets are rigged except not in the way you think. If you try to bet on value plays you will never succeed. If you bet on the stocks the hedge funds support, you will succeed. Go against them and your account will just die. Learn to see what they want and that's how you join the house. It's just hard for a regular person to understand that.

I'm not an expert on astrology, but I see many cultures believe in it. Maybe there is a method to their madness that we don't understand now that you mention it.

I know for TA, you have to look at the patterns and they are visible in the data. The people who are against are the ones who can't figure it out.

Don't worry if they get big enough and don't join the capital markets they will get killed off. It's hard to do real business with a fortune 500 if you aren't listed. Look at SurveyMonkey they ended up relenting.

It is but not that much. It's limited to how far the stock falls. So if you buy a $500 contract when the share price is $95 you can still make $9500. If you had sold puts/calls then your profit is limited to the first sale you made.

30-45 days max. The Teslas/Amazons I do weekly/two weeks as I am looking for trends in my calculations.

I have some LEAPS on AAPL as a test but really it's because I didn't want to hold shares any longer and it was a good bet as AAPL pulled back hard.

I think there is less risk. Especially with my strategy. Also you get 100x leverage. So I will give you a sample trade from today.

I bought Dec04 $600 Calls for $900 each at 9:55 am. At 1:25 I sold for $1820. So $1000 would be $2000. Now to make $1,000 in shares it would require ($1000/($25)) so I would need 40 shares (40*$550) = $22,000 risk.

Now I only buy calls or puts so my upside is always unlimited but downside is limited to the initial order.

Swing trading stocks is really hard because you have to sleep on $22,000 overnight. You can wake up with nothing in a black swan event. With options the most I will get hit on is $50-$100,000 which I have in the market at once. The rest is ready in the savings account in cash or etfs/TSLA stock.

I think options are the safest bet. Everyone starting out should look into the wheel strategy as it's basically free money for shareholders.

Get a ThinkOrSwim account with $10 in it and you get their real time API. You can create a socket and store the entire chain. Perfect data does not exist in this world, anyone who claims they have it, has a lot of money.

From your description, the term you are looking for is swing traders.

Yes, I swing trade options. All technical analysis.

Only stocks. Pure technical analysis. Main items we focus on are price-action and price-volume. In essence, for every minute the price goes up, what's the volume? For every penny the stock goes up, what's the volume? For every 100,000 shares what's the change in price?200k? 300k? 1m? and so on. Also, weighted factors for all the different indicators, MA/SMA/CCI/RSI/VWAP being of most pertinence. Pitch fork trends weighted at a lower level. Also several other proprietary indicators based on stock correlation (i.e. BABA vs AMZN, if AMZN is moving down, BABA should as well because of what it relies on).

I have been getting killed the last month but still up over 100%. Just hit on GS (100%+), and likely will on TSLA. Also did 1500% on TSLA this year on a trade which was my biggest so that helps.

TSLA seems ready for a similar move to when I made my last huge run.

You can't. Nobody can. Not me, not you. I'm not sure you are understanding my point. If you work for someone you are their b * * * * *.

Yes you may grow but your values will be forced upon you subconsciously.

No I was a wage slave. It is why I'm saying you can't succeed as an employee without compromising your principles. Even CEOs of Fortune 500s don't have the ability as they have a board to report to. Well except Zuck.

I guess things are changing, but historically refusing to serve customers based on political differences would be considered intolerant. You can disagree with someone without refusing them service. I don't see any ethical dilemmas in serving someone you disagree with. You are free to disagree with that principle.

Let's not separate a single example, the entire example list is as a whole, i.e. any of the situations listed are that to the person involved. Sure for you it doesn't, however, someone else will have a different opinion with respect to dealing with other political stripes. There are people who won't deal with other religions in this day and age.

> Growing pains, but an employee who is competent or incompetent will face the same dilemma because of what I suggested earlier.

I typed this in a way it was not clear. The growing pains will heal. The competent and incompetent employees will always be slaves, their competence won't help them.

And yes, I sleep well.

He won't be asked to subjugate his principles to the company in an inappropriate way, in part because others know that he will go above and beyond within his principles to do well for the company.

I respectfully disagree. Your team may not, your direct reports won't and your management hierarchy may not, however, your business will. If you have certain principles such as support for LBGTQ+, anti-military contracts, or a conservative in tech for example, and your company signs a contract to work with another organization that doesn't care about the cause or are completely against it, what happens? I know CEO's who can't fire bad clients because they don't own their own company.

Walking away from his business means the collapse of his reputation, failing his employees, and failing his family.

Walking away from bad business can make you so much money it's hard to imagine. I've had conversations about doing business with shady people, which resulted in me making a deal with the person who had the same experience with the other individual.

On the other hand, a weak business and/or business owner will be very vulnerable to principle-based compromise.

Growing pains, but an employee who is competent or incompetent will face the same dilemma because of what I suggested earlier.

I call it being a slave earlier, to intentionally raise alarm. I don't know of a way to define it but you don't have to go to sleep at night thinking, well, I didn't like that decision and now I need to change my entire life or deal with it. I.e. find a new job, change my commute, change my schedule, acquaint yourself with a new environment, meet new people and so on. An owner, is doing this on a daily basis already.

Their competitors aren't good enough. It's going to take them a while to catch up so yes, for the next decade, Tesla will have first-mover advantage. From what I can see in the market, Tesla and NIO are leading the charge, the rest of them should just file bankruptcy now.

With all this said, I am presuming what you have. If you tell me the car you drive, I can look at their stock and give you a more informed statement.