Never would have imagined it would take this long to get to 1k, but congrats, that's awesome. I'm still stuck on my single-threaded windows work app (64bit now), which was the reason for starting this thread, but looks like this app has run it's course.
Getting into something that is extremely overpriced, extremely volatile, and is expected to pay off in days is extremely risky. And betting with money that one can 'afford' to lose doesn't actually prepare one for actually losing most or all of it, and I'll bet a lot of people are kicking...
I found the constant bullying to 'hold the line', and 'not be a p***y and sell' really disturbing. That won't affect those who know what they are doing, but probably affected quite a few of those that don't. And those bullying know exactly who they are talking to.
Reddit is going to get all the credit for the volatility, but I believe the professional firms were the sharks lurking below the surface that attacked once smelling blood in the water.
Honestly I don't know what is more aggregious, being short a large stock position and not covering when it goes as low as $2.57, or getting long shortly after and not profit taking when it goes as high as $483. It's like fighting to win every battle, but turning your back when you have a chance...
I've just been plugging the futures into IB lately too, except I've been tracking USO this whole year. I almost bought some at $12.50ish in January, for the long haul, but thankfully didn't. :grimacing:
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