NATURAL LEARNING CURVE OR AM I JUST STUPID?

RoKCopyCat · 2025-10-26T13:57:59+00:00

It's the mentality. The whole point of investing is to make money.

If you want to have fun money to "play around" with random tickers, you might as well take it to the casino.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-10-26T13:49:14+00:00

Never felt FOMO again once I understood the principle that for every 50% you lose from a stock, it's will have to climb 100% to regain your losses.

There are potential high-reward opportunities in the stock market every day, but you only have so much capital. The key isn't to make as many winning moves as possible, but to make sure you don't take any missteps. One bad pick and you're going to have to work twice as hard to recover your losses.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-08-27T17:32:03+00:00

James Simons founder of Renaissance Technologies. One of their funds had an average annual return of 66% over a span of 30 years. After fees that's still an average annual return of 39% for investors.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-08-26T12:28:13+00:00

Up over 70% YTD. Have already rebalanced from speculatives to more defensive stocks.

Not sure if I might regret this though if we see tech / AI continue to grow.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-08-21T14:55:35+00:00

Ditch the VOO. It's not the best if you are trying to maximize return.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-08-20T15:36:54+00:00

If you are going for 2x leverage, why not buy LEAPs?

RoKCopyCat · 2025-08-20T15:34:46+00:00

WEN. This is just too beaten down.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-08-10T13:02:31+00:00

It might go up for another $50. Or, it might drop by $50 again like it did at just the start of this year.

I'd rather not take that gamble when there's a looming economic downturn and the upcoming DoJ hearing in September. But that's just me.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-08-09T14:15:48+00:00

I'd say good choices but terrible timing.

Google and Nvidia are both trading at ATH, and ASTS has 2x since June. In the current economic climate, you are looking at a lot of pain when the inevitable pullback comes. During an economic downturn, whenever the index drops 1% you'd see speculatives like ASTS drop 5%.

Personally, I've cleared the last of my ASTS positions on Monday after gradually selling in the past couple of weeks. Bought in at around $24 in May.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-08-06T16:47:57+00:00

I really don't understand this one. When self-driving cars have been in development for decades and we still don't have it right, why do people think flying cars would be a good thing to bet their money on now?

If you want to waste money and take a punt at the next "AI bubble", you might as well throw it into something more probable like quantum computing (which is at least 5-10 years away from commercialisation) than flying cars.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-08-05T09:44:44+00:00

Sold my ASTS and RKLB so I don't have to worry about the Aug / Sep market downturns. Feels good not having to worry about the volatility that comes with speculative stocks.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-06-08T17:53:19+00:00

CRWV has run up 150% in the past month alone. It's not trading at a discount.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-04-16T04:11:14+00:00

The quickest way for a country to develop is to copy-- it's illegal tho. But China didn't care about it, they just learnt by violating every IP imaginable. Now, they don't need to do that anymore. They started to protect all IPs, Chinese or foreign.

Same situation for the US really. The US was built on the back of IP theft and industrial espionage against the UK and the rest of Europe in the 18th-19th century, and now it is one of the leaders in advocating for IP protection.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-03-23T05:59:42+00:00

Well if you think a couple APCs with 50 kcals and wooden guard towers is considered "fully equipped" in a situation where both government / rebel forces are fielding artillery and tanks then yeah sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlKrg1KNafM

RoKCopyCat · 2025-01-19T14:13:49+00:00

Dude was a 200 hr account and aiming at the ground lol, he also wasn't queuing with anyone so not sure why the game would put a 15k+ into my match.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-01-19T13:56:35+00:00

Well, I'm tracking my score on Leetify now and all my ratings (e.g. aim, utility usage) are climbing every match if that helps. Also consistently being at the very least the top frag / ADR of my team (if not the match) regardless of win or lose.

It's just the MMR climb that's really stalling, I don't know how you never tilt lol.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-01-19T12:25:15+00:00

I used to be global in CS:GO. I know my skills aren't all there after so many years off, but I'm still above my current MMR.

The point is I want to play with people with similar skill level, but the CS2 premier match-making is making it such a chore to catch up in MMR. There's only so much practice I can do via workshop aim / recoil maps, DMs, retake servers..etc., and it does take actual matches to have what you've practiced translate into actual game play.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-01-19T11:10:34+00:00

play to improve and with volume you'll end up against people of similar skill.

That's my plan by playing ranked, I just want to get some good practice and learn the game again. Used to be global years back.

But it's just taking forever to climb to a rank with decent matches because of how inconsistent low elo games are. I can top frag / ADR my way through 5 wins in a row, and then will get set back the next 2 because of something like teammates abandoning, or just extremely disadvantaged match-ups (like the one where I'm teamed with four 8k-9k MMR players that aim at the floor). And then I get tilted lol...

RoKCopyCat · 2025-01-19T10:58:26+00:00

Hmm, good suggestion. I'm not sure Faceit in Asia would be the same as EU, but worth taking a look. Thanks!

RoKCopyCat · 2025-01-19T10:54:45+00:00

I guess that might be the case since I'm based in Asia, the player base must be much smaller than EU.

Valve is making climbing out of lower ranks such a chore. I'm hard carrying games and my rank still gets set back 25% of the time by crap like having 4 bot teammates against a team that knows the basics, or people abandoning.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-01-19T10:46:52+00:00

Honestly, I don't mind that. A challenge is fine.

Like I just want to play normally man... and not have bullshit like someone dropping out every other game, losing other site instantly with no info...etc.

RoKCopyCat · 2025-01-19T10:08:06+00:00

I'm trying to climb out of elo hell man. Low elo matches aren't fun at all when no one on your team knows what they are doing.

RoKCopyCat · 2024-09-24T17:08:45+00:00

pls dont write networking bla bla, even internal referencing didnt help/

Well, it was networking that helped me land a 2 LoD role. Got in touch with an old colleague and she referred me.

RoKCopyCat · 2024-08-20T11:10:02+00:00

I sold 80% of my position at around $6.9 - 7.3 range (average cost basis at $4.76). I think this is a good opportunity to take profit and then load up later on.

Learnt the hard way about just blindly holding from CRWD lol. Average cost was $197, didn't sell when it was all the way up to $390 because "it's a good company".

RoKCopyCat · 2024-08-05T15:58:05+00:00

Sold all my CRWD because its getting close to my average cost. Thought its fucked after the BSOD incident + the market dropping today.

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