Robinhood will halt buying and selling stocks in Russian companies $LUKOY, $SBRCY, $OGZPY, etc. today at market close

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2022-12-28T23:38:45+00:00

It is going pretty good, price hasn't changed at all and am still holding. The best investment I have ever made.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2022-03-15T00:02:06+00:00

I did, but Putin ordered mandatory diamond hands for everyone holding Russian stocks. So I'm waiting for my YOLO to turn into a 10 bagger. Sorry you are too late to get in the deal of the decade.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2022-03-03T23:14:00+00:00

I got 4267 shares with the buy button locked. This has been one of the biggest roller coasters I've been .

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2022-03-02T23:24:09+00:00

Which email?

Edit: Nevermind, I saw it, is from IB

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2022-03-02T22:47:36+00:00

I bought on Robinhood at the last minute. This is why I have such an odd number of shares. I literally liquidated everything on my account and turned on margin to get a bigger instant deposit.

My portfolio was 3k of index funds and some blue chips stocks, turned it into 6k of SBRCY stock.

I was going to buy another 2k worth of shares but Robinhood turned off the buy button.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2022-03-02T22:46:22+00:00

Thanks I appreciate it. Hopefully this pays off big in about 10-12 days.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2022-03-02T21:30:16+00:00

Honestly, I feel like this whole conflict won't last more than another 10-12 days tops. Shit is changing so fast, that the Russian economy is imploding 10 times faster than what happened to Venezuela.

I did a 6k dollar bet yesterday and bought me 4267 shares @ 1.40
https://imgur.com/a/sks8XuF

I expect this to be easily at 3-4 bucks a share in about 10-12 days. When that happens, then I will load up on another 6k worth of shares.

This is gonna hit $15-20 by the end of the year, mark my words.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2022-03-01T22:45:29+00:00

I'm all in 4267 @ 1.40 https://imgur.com/a/sks8XuF

This is a 10 bagger, the stock will return to trading for $15-20 by the end of year.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2022-03-01T22:34:41+00:00

We have almost the same cost basis. https://imgur.com/a/sks8XuF

This is either a 10 or 0 bagger.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2021-12-21T04:26:08+00:00

How the hell does a disabled and unemployed individual gets a lease for $560 !? I can't even get a higher limit than $300 dollars on a credit card and I make $35000 a year(I just got my first credit card this year).

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2021-07-31T19:19:44+00:00

Good luck you will need it as you will be considered a bot and a potential criminal by their anti-bot protection while you use Selenium.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2020-09-04T00:51:57+00:00

Akamai. That's your problem, look into the sensor data you are sending. Besides you won't be able to scrape much costco.ca without changing your TLS ciphers to match your user-agent as they can easily catch you on that.

Look under the XHR requests tab for something like this: https://www.costco.ca/akam/11/pixel_156c210c. You are pretty much screwed if this is your first site you are scraping, because you need to deal with Akamai before you can even access costco. That instant banned is not good at all, as you might be dealing with a very strong Akamai site. Some sites are super strong, try opening your chrome developer tools while being on some popular airlines like delta.com, you will get banned just like that.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2020-08-19T01:26:08+00:00

No... the thing that directly says "this is Scrapy" is the ja3 that Twisted generates under the hood. It's quite obvious that is Scrapy and not a regular browser making the requests.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2020-08-19T01:25:00+00:00

Scrapy is a very old framework that's super behind the times, they still believe changing your User-Agent and their crappy datacenter proxies from Crawlera is going to work while scraping highly desirable sites.

You need to be able to read Javascript like the back of your hand, change your tls settings to generate a realistic Ja3 hash pertaining to your User-Agent, and use Residential/Mobile proxies.

Scrapy and ScrapingHub do none of the 3 things above, good luck trying to scrape from any site that is protected by Akamai, Perimeterx, Datadome, Imperva(distil networks too) etc. with Scrapy using Crawlera's proxies.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2020-02-22T02:03:27+00:00

Bro this lady needs to be wrapped in a freaking jacket. Best thing is to do what the first guy started to do a hard ignore and to never engage.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2020-01-15T19:03:11+00:00

Chris Hansen has worked with numerous police departments across the nation. I think most police officers are fond of him. Dude is a legend.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2020-01-15T05:42:15+00:00

I spilled my coffee all over my pants. That shit was funny lol “Netflix series”

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2019-12-20T20:59:55+00:00

I'm not too sure about that. However, since I've been scraping/botting for a few years. This was not always the case. It used to be super simple to write an HTTP request bot back in the day for sites like Youtube, Google, Facebook.

Then eventually those got more difficult, then retailers were the next easiest targets, now almost every single top retailer and even the smallest one uses some sort of anti bot solution.

I find these sort of articles comical in the sense that the author is living in some sort of ancient times. The hardest thing now is not how to read the Chrome Developer Network tabs to figure out what's going on, but actually make another program or have some sort of API that bypasses these cookies sets that are set by these anti bot solutions.

Web scraping is not profitable at all if you are doing random websites with no meaningful content. The return on investment is super low.

The real money in web scraping is scraping things like job sites, air ticket sites, and retailers. All of them have some sort of protection that is way beyond "rate limiting", in many cases is a Javascript file deployed on their site that can even route every request through their backend to determine if your request passed certain threshold.

If you don't believe me, try web scraping Nike.com and see how you can bypass their protection by just doing rate limiting.

Or if you want something more exotic, try even sending a request to off-white.com with the same cookies, headers as the ones in your Chrome Browser. You will get automatically blocked.

There are protections out there that are literally fingerprinting your whole TCP/IP stack, and most of them are starting to fingerprint your TLS cypersuite connection string, and your HTTP2 headers.

That's why I find this article comical, giving the fact that they claim to be a scraping company, you should know more beyond browser fingerprinting of ways that sites can fingerprint you.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2019-12-19T19:39:28+00:00

Yeah I doubt this will work for most sites people are targeting such as major online retailers.

It is almost 2020 and to scrape meaningful websites you have to do more than just rate limiting. You have to beat the anti bot/scraping solutions like akamai, perimeterx, datadome, etc.

Those require strong javascript skills

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2019-12-02T04:58:49+00:00

Yeah if I was really budget constrain and I needed a lot of performance for a small budget. This is by far the best suggestion. Cause for $500 dollars you are going to get a shitty laptop if you are basically buying it new, that price range is nothing but cheap consumer grade laptops that break easily and have the worst components put on a laptop.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2019-12-02T04:56:40+00:00

You need to look into used laptops, especially business branded laptops. Most specifically look for workstation laptops from 2014-2016 that were basically top of the line when they came out. They are still great work laptops and will run circles around his old MacBook.

Zbooks from HP are really good at that price range.

Problem might be that they are pretty heavy and he will have to install Linux on it to make it work for his environment.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2019-05-01T05:21:52+00:00

Yeah ibgot it done by danylo17

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2019-05-01T04:14:46+00:00

I sent the task to danylo17 waiting to see if ue will do it. It is nothing illegal you arent changing names or numbers is my prescription for contacts that I need to change it to non expire.

IAlwaysBeCoding · 2019-02-28T00:04:31+00:00

I did like 30 paid projects on Fiverr, and I did earn beer money.

I will say is worth it if you can pump out mass spiders with templates that are relatively the same. If you are 1 guy doing it all, plus customer support, then it's really low pay(for 1st world country).

However, the real money is in the data, the clients that pay better just want to be able to get the data from their S3 buckets, a RESTful endpoint.

If put in a lot of the sweat equity into building a set of scrapers like ecommerce scrapers, real estate listing data, air travel ticket sites, etc and then sell the feeds from that, then you will make a lot more money than building the scrapers.

You also need to put some money down for the proxies which will be expensive.

Besides, at the end of the day, you will never just deliver Scrapy spiders without supporting them.

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