Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Jesus, don't quit your day job to become a trader is all I'm gonna say.


Can you at least provide specificity to match your derision?


It's trivial to say in hindsight "if you had just bought XYZ in January you would have 80% gains by now!". Yet this is pure confirmation bias. Moreover, surveys routinely show that amateur day traders do not consistently beat a global stock index in a statistically significant manner.

Extrapolating from past data with N=1 to demonstrate that "any tech person can outperform the index" shows a crass lack of mathematical reasoning, which in my opinion demonstrates why you're unsuited to professional trading.


Okay since you're just tossing insults I'll just say that you don't need hindsight to have known that Nvidia is selling shovels in an AI gold rush.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: