How the hell do people actually make money from rising stocks?
So I keep seeing people brag about how much money they’ve made from stocks going up, but I don’t get it. If you buy a stock and its price goes up, you...
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So I keep seeing people brag about how much money they’ve made from stocks going up, but I don’t get it. If you buy a stock and its price goes up, you...
Every time I see news about some hotshot CEO tweeting or a random war breaking out, the market just loses its shit. Stocks tank for no real reason, or...
Robinhood loves to hype itself as the hero that opened up trading for everyone, but let’s not pretend they invented this idea. I remember when brokers...
Been hauling ass for over a decade, pulling in just above 60k a year. I’m freaking tired of the road, sleeping in shithole motels, eating garbage, and...
Sick of working crap retail jobs and getting yelled at by Karens every damn day. I want to get into something real, like mass production welding or a...
A spokesperson for the European Union has reported that the bloc’s trade chief, Maros Sefcovic, has been engaged in intensive discussions with represe...
Honestly, I’ve always wondered why we still have these guys running around on trading floors, especially when computers are way faster and don’t need ...
I swear, every few weeks there’s another headline about AI replacing more jobs, like we’re all supposed to sit here and just accept it. But I’m trying...
Honestly, I’m thinking about getting into auto mechanics this year, but the pay absolutely sucks when you’re just starting out. I literally saw a sign...
Oil traders are basically the sharks of the commodities world. Their main job is to buy and sell crude oil and products like gasoline or diesel, but i...
Designated market makers basically have a license to print money, if you know what you’re doing. The main perk is you get to buy at the bid and sell a...
So I’ve got a few friends and some family who always ask me to help with investing their money. I’m not talking about being the next Warren Buffett or...
The European Union has reached an agreement on its 18th set of sanctions targeting Russia in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, according to...
I'm getting sick of hearing that any college degree is better than not having one. It's shoved down our throats by teachers, parents, even random lose...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has described a recent letter from United States President Donald Trump regarding proposed tariffs as un...
The United Kingdom and Germany have entered into a significant new partnership, formalised through the signing of the Kensington Treaty. This agreemen...
Did anyone else catch that awkward-ass CNN interview about high-speed trading limits? The guy dodged every question like it was a game show. I work fo...
Trading for a living is a twisted circus. Anyone who says otherwise is lying or selling a course. I quit my soul-sucking desk job because I thought I ...
Black Box trading is basically when some Wall Street nerds build a secret set of rules or algorithms to trade stocks, and then hide everything about h...
United States President Donald Trump has stated that his administration is on the verge of finalizing a trade agreement with India. Speaking in an int...
United States President Donald Trump has announced that a 19 percent tariff will be applied to goods imported from Indonesia into the US, according to...
President Donald Trump has stated on the social media platform Truth Social that he has reached a favorable agreement with Indonesia following direct ...
Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg is participating in the G20 summit taking place this week in Durban, South Africa, according to an announc...
Anyone else seeing a ton of these so-called "trading" apps on Google Play? A buddy of mine got lured into one of these pig butchering scams. Some rand...
So yesterday I watched the market go fucking nuts after some random “news” about tariffs being paused. Turns out it was total bullshit. Some clown pos...
Customs officials at Cologne Airport in Germany discovered approximately 1,500 tarantulas concealed inside cake boxes within a package that had been s...
The European Union has indicated that it is prepared to impose tariffs on American imports valued at 72 billion euros, should the United States move f...
The chief executive of VDMA, Thilo Brodtmann, has stated that the recent extension of tariffs by President Donald Trump’s administration is prolonging...
The European Union and the United States are making significant progress towards a mutually beneficial agreement in their ongoing trade discussions, a...
Alright, so open-end and closed-end funds sound like boring finance nonsense, but here's what matters. Open-end funds are just your basic mutual funds...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Sunday that the European Union will delay implementing retaliatory measures in respons...
Authorities in Germany have recently confiscated several hundred kilograms of the drug fenethylline, with an estimated street value exceeding 236 mill...
Summer break is here and honestly I’m tired of scrolling TikTok and wasting time. I want to learn something useful, like trading stocks and all that c...
Get ready for a real answer because most people have no idea and just imagine Wolf of Wall Street style coke binges and screaming into phones. Truth i...
So I’m going nuts trying to figure out the “right” way to report the Sharpe ratio for a dollar-neutral portfolio. The thing is, it’s self-financing, r...
So I keep hearing people say you can make money in the stock market when your stock goes up, and nobody else has to lose money for you to win. But tha...
If you ever tried to buy American Silver Eagles, you know they’re always way more than the price of silver itself. It’s honestly ridiculous how much o...
Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry Cecilie Myrseth (Labour Party) has stated that the recent decision by the United States to impose a 30 percen...
Following extended negotiations with the European Union, US President Donald Trump has announced that imports from the EU will be subject to a 30 perc...
I don’t get how these damn stocks work half the time. You’d think if a company does well, their stock goes up, and if they tank, it drops, right? But ...
US stock markets opened lower on Friday, according to reports from Reuters. The decline followed an announcement from President Donald Trump regarding...
Anyone else sick of people acting like you have to pick the same boring finance path? I'm stuck between Math+CS and Math+Stats for undergrad, mainly b...
Reddit clowns are at it again, and this time it feels even dumber than the GameStop madness. Suddenly every broke college kid and their grandma thinks...
So I got a math degree from a small liberal arts college, which people kept telling me was weird for finance, but screw them, right? I jumped into opt...
On Friday, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the ASEAN summi...
President Donald Trump has stated that the European Union will receive a formal notification regarding new tariffs either on Thursday or Friday, accor...
Germany's Foreign Minister, Johann Wadephul, has called on Iran to leverage its influence over Yemen's Houthi movement to put an end to attacks on ves...
I had sex with a guy in my class just so he'd give me his homework answers. He's a virgin and was nervous as hell, but he did it anyway. I honestly ju...
Insider trading gets treated like it's some heinous thing, but if you think about it, it's just a bunch of people using info that other people don't h...
So Citigroup just got slapped with a $79 million fine by UK regulators because some poor bastard at their desk messed up a trade, accidentally trigger...
Honestly, this sounds like straight-up bullshit to me. Why the hell should a teenager with zero track record be charging $100 a month for stock picks?...
Getting money for trade school is honestly a pain in the ass. Most of the info out there is for universities, and it feels like they don’t give a shit...
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced that his government is ready to take action if US President Donald Trump follows through o...
United States President Donald Trump has announced that a 50% tariff will be imposed on goods from Brazil starting 1 August, according to a report fro...
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will impose a 30 percent tariff on imports from Libya and Iraq. While the administration h...
I keep hearing people online brag about making quick cash with options trading, especially with big names like Apple. But when I actually try to wrap ...
Every damn time I make a trade, I end up doing the same stupid shit: I watch my losing positions bleed out because I "hope" they'll bounce back, and w...
Options trading is honestly a game changer, especially if you get bored just buying and holding stocks like a clueless sheep. One of the biggest perks...
I've got this Stock Trak account for my undergrad finance class, and I'm sick of playing it safe like all the other sheep in my group. I want to crush...
If you want to get your hands dirty with stock market data in R, go grab the quantmod package. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done for most beg...
So I've been messing around with Scottrade and I'm wondering if I can just buy some stocks and sell them off the same day, or if there's some stupid r...
After watching Squid Game and seeing that loser dude drowning in debt, I started googling about futures trading because apparently that’s how people g...
If you're trying to get a summer analyst gig, don't just sit there and ask the same boring crap everyone else does. When you get a shot to talk to ins...
If you’re thinking about a grad job, you’re probably being sold this BS that coding for traders is “the future” and that it’s all about innovation and...
Everyone seems to think quants just sit around plugging numbers into Black-Scholes and making money magically appear, but that’s not even close to the...
I'm bored as hell with my current job and I'm not smart enough to become some tech geek. I love messing with cars, getting greasy, fixing engines, and...
So I’ve been screwing around with the Black-Scholes model, literally plugging in numbers and checking option prices all day. The theory is simple: if...
Just started dipping my toes into stocks and, honestly, the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is pissing me off. If markets are so damn efficient, are...
Anyone here actually have success with algo trading for hedge funds? I keep seeing all these dumbass posts online acting like you just plug in some ma...
According to the Financial Times, the European Union is prepared to sign a provisional framework agreement with the United States that would result in...
I'm tired of seeing overpriced crap on eBay and Depop, seriously. I just want to fill up my itabag without selling a kidney. Does anyone know where to...
TV is dying, let’s be honest. Everyone’s streaming, nobody watches cable unless you’re a boomer or too dumb to set up Netflix. I want to make some mon...
Honestly, if you're just starting out in Equity Sales, get ready for a lot of chaos and bullshit. People pretend it's all about fancy charts and deep ...
I keep hearing about digital signal processing (DSP) as some magic tool for cleaning up messy financial charts, but all the explanations are either ne...
Every time the market shits itself, I see ETFs just totally disconnect from their underlying stocks and it makes no damn sense to me. Aren’t all these...
United States President Donald Trump has indicated that he will deliver new trade-related announcements on Wednesday, involving several nations. In a ...
President Donald Trump has stated that the European Union will probably receive a formal notification regarding tariffs within the next two days, acco...
Being an FX options market maker at a large bank is a grind. Everyone always acts like delta neutrality is some magic bullet, but in a deep and liqui...
Derivatives traders are basically people gambling on stuff like the future price of stocks, indexes, oil, whatever. They don't actually own the thing,...
ThinkorSwim's paperMoney is decent for playing around with fake trades, but the "live" data is actually delayed unless you have a funded account, whi...
So I keep seeing these headlines about Citadel raking in $16 billion in 2022, blowing past all the other hedge funds. And every time, some clown jumps...
I'm tired of all these paid financial news services that cost more than my damn rent. Bloomberg, Reuters, Benzinga – unless you want to sell a kidney,...
German exports to the United States decreased by 7.7 percent from April to May, following the announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump of increased...
This is just fucking insane. Some neckbeard loser actually stabbed a dude over Pokémon cards in line last night at Target. What the fuck is wrong with...
Most people in prop firms act like they know exactly when to roll out a new strategy, but honestly, half of it is just luck and the other half is not ...
Every time I think I’ve got the hang of trading, my brain starts acting like a greedy little monkey and wants to double my money overnight. Anyone els...
The United States has announced that higher tariffs will be imposed on several countries starting from 1 August. These changes were communicated to th...
A cargo vessel sustained significant damage and lost all propulsion following an attack involving five rockets west of the Yemeni port city of Hodeida...
Every time I look at stocks, I just get pissed thinking about why there isn't a single global exchange where you can buy and sell anything from anywhe...
I keep seeing people brag about their CMT badges on LinkedIn, but honestly, I'm not convinced it's anything more than a way for the test-makers to get...
Anyone else trying to break into finance as a remote trader? I keep reading these posts about people making bank from their laptops on a beach, but ho...
It always pisses me off when I see Canada shipping off ridiculous amounts of wheat while still importing some from other countries. Like, what the hel...
South Africa has responded to a letter from United States President Donald Trump, in which he announced the introduction of a 30 percent tariff on all...
Multiple countries, including South Korea and Japan, have indicated their intention to continue negotiations with the United States in an effort to se...
United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order postponing the introduction of increased tariffs on several countries. According to...
President Donald Trump has announced the introduction of a 25 percent tariff on products imported from Tunisia. The decision was communicated in a let...
President Donald Trump has announced the introduction of new tariffs on imports from several countries. According to a statement released on Truth Soc...
The United States has postponed the deadline for reaching new trade agreements to 1 August, according to White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt. Th...
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will implement a 25 percent tariff on goods imported from Japan, effective from 1 August. ...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has emphasized the importance of Europe presenting a united and strong position in trade negotiatio...