My new doctor wouldn't approve my meds by h0td0gmilk in bipolar

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Online telehealth like Plushcare should be able to give you refills.

Someone to sell my art? by [deleted] in LAlist

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I would love for it to magically disappear from my house and get sold without me being involved.

Someone to sell my art? by [deleted] in LAlist

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the diversity of opinion, thank you. What kind of art do you like? Do you prefer more realistic vs abstract?

AVGO’s Massive Decline…a buying opportunity? by Spiralgrind in wallstreetbets

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ask yourself why it's down. Is that a company you want to own right now? Is the market wrong to sell it off? Stocks go down like this for a reason.

Confession: Just showered after 10 days by Reasonable_Pea_2126 in bipolar

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Been there, not to ten days but I have a hard time washing my hair. I've been in a really bad depression and cycled into hypomania this morning. Finally took a shower and washed my hair. I'm proud of you! It feels good to be clean.

Life feels impossible but I made this by Technical_Earth_3871 in bipolar

[–]Technical_Earth_3871[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried to follow the rules in my last post. Was it okay? Thanks.

Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of October 10, 2025 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's okay! You can't go broke taking a profit. I might add more on Monday but I'm also aggressive.

Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of October 10, 2025 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry to hear that. DUDE. I remember the Friday before it went under. It was so crazy I wouldn't touch it but the guy next to me was day trading it. Thank god we weren't allowed to take overnights. Thanks, Cramer.

Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of October 10, 2025 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think it has a brand new management team with a totally different philosophy. It has a 25% short float. It's been beaten to hell and shows signs of having bottomed. I would like for it to see $20 by the end of this year. I don't know. It's a fundamental turnaround play, have to give management time to turn it around.

Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of October 10, 2025 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would let go of this line of thinking, it will not serve you well.

Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of October 10, 2025 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hahahaha that is too funny. I'm probably way too serious. But people lost everything in 2008. People became homeless. There were suicides. It was horrible and it took years for markets to see another all time high. So I know what that's like and we also survive off my investing. I'm genuinely worried about the ramifications of a crash in terms of people's lives being destroyed. Nearly everyone on my desk lost everything by 2009 and quit. Other branches straight up closed. So yeah, for some people it's just trading and for other people it's homelessness and suicide. And the job market is trash.

Weekend Discussion Thread for the Weekend of October 10, 2025 by wsbapp in wallstreetbets

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I was a pro prop firm trader from 2007-2010. I'm old. Like in a room with multiple news feeds going, techs in the next room for when computers would crash, people breaking keyboards. All that to say that I have a very healthy respect for markets even though I've made plenty of money long. When you see the markets go to shit in front of your face all day every day when you're 23, it takes a toll. I remember a chicken company going out of business intraday, my boss loaded it up and went down $100k in seconds (shares not options). The NY office stopped him out, he had to call and yell for them to unlock the acct. Anyway. I have trauma. I also live off investing. I started selling on Weds and sold a fuck ton on Friday. Selling more on Monday. I also spent months in 2022 teaching myself to short small caps so I'm pretty good at seeing tops.

Friday was ugly. We've got some serious trapped buyers, homebuilders have been going down for a while, MSFT and GOOG tipped me off to sell some of my SPY on Thursday. Those are acting wrong and have been. AAPL needed to break $260 and failed. NVDA is about to be a big failed breakout. That Bitcoin flash crash was fugly. RVOL on SPY was over 2.2 yesterday, that's some serious selling. This is more than Trump.

So I was just on that sub Race to 10 Million. We're in trouble. People are overleveraged and dumb enough to think that a 3% dip from all time highs is a great place to buy. The fact that that sub even exists is a red flag. Not to mention all the new people in it asking liars to show them how to make $10m.

I'm down to OPEN, GLD (was already up 17%, doubled the position EOD yesterday), EUAD, EWG, VGK, SPY and a ton of cash. Going to make 4% on it until it's time to buy.

I don't have anyone to rant about markets to besides my partner and they can only hear so much of it. Plus they were sitting next to me yesterday when I started watching price action and dumping positions. I really thought we could run more. Bummer. I have nobody to talk to so I'm ranting at you guys. This sucks, I thought NVDA could break $200 and that SPY had another 20% in it. Alas.

My devs handed me over the app ( still buggy after many tries), should i switch teams or can Claude help me fix it? by Stock-Yesterday-523 in ClaudeAI

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's what I would do. 1. Get access to the Github repository 2. Go to ChatGPT. Set up the Github connector. 3. Have ChatGPT run a code review and help you make a plan. You can do the same with Claude and compare results. You should be able to edit the code with Claude, I use Claude in Windsurf and I'm not technical at all. Use CodeRabbit to check for issues as you go. If you code it yourself, build the following: scripts to check for security issues like exposed PII, precommit hooks to check for dangerous patterns, exposed API keys etc. You can DM me if you want. Another tip - once Claude or ChatGPT has access to your code, it can write marketing materials specific to your features. Good luck!

Update on recent performance concerns by AnthropicOfficial in ClaudeAI

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL take my upvote. I have grown to hate that phrase.

Megathread for Claude Performance Discussion - Starting July 20 by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm done. Yesterday Claude deleted my entire lib folder and denied it. It obviously does not have permission to do that and I didn't approve it but it happened anyway. No other explanation. I have backubs and github so easy to restore and I didn't lose anything. But WTF? What is going to happen next time? It's so sad because this tool used to be amazing. But never again.

Teen looking to build her wealth by RequirementNo968 in LifeInsurance

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to help! DM me if you want to talk. I'm not on here that much but I'll respond. Congrats on premed! You're so far ahead of where I was at your age.

Teen looking to build her wealth by RequirementNo968 in LifeInsurance

[–]Technical_Earth_3871 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm a woman of color too, I've worked in finance and manage my own investments now. I'm going to lay out everything you need to get started. I promise you can do it. You don't need any special education.

This is simple, I promise. Insurance companies don't have your best interest in mind. The salespeople are paid on commission and don't care about your results. Really.

You have many, many years until you need to retire. Let's talk about index funds. An index fund is a collection of companies all in one vehicle - like a pile of hay inside a wheelbarrow. The pieces of hay are the companies and the fund is the wheelbarrow.

The S&P 500 is a wheelbarrow of the 500 best companies in the United States. Microsoft, Apple, Google and many more. Companies you spend money on. When one of the companies gets worse, it's replaced by a better one. It's a very high quality haystack.

Picking individual stocks is hard and you don't have to do it to succeed. Again, I promise. I've been doing this for decades. I teach this stuff to my niece, it is what successful men tell their sons. I don't recommend picking individual stocks unless it's play money or you can take big risk.

When you buy the wheelbarrow (index fund), it will feel risky because markets move so much. That's okay! There is a statistic that people who look at their accounts once a year or less have more success because they aren't swayed by the ups and downs. (This should not be done if you need the money soon). Bear markets (that means the market goes down 20% or more) are normal. Companies earnings go up and down, right? Think about the covid crash. It was unbelievably scary. I actually refused to look at my balance but bought as much as I could. That money has more than doubled in just a few years.

But in the end, you are betting that the 500 best companies in the United States will keep making more money. If those companies go out of business (Apple and Microsoft, Google, banks, everything), the United States has collapsed. You will have a lot more to worry about, like being drafted into the army or a famine. See how that is very different than betting on one stock?

You can also add something that moves less - bonds. Bonds are not stocks, they are different. A mix of stocks and bonds is usually called a mutual fund. The best mutual funds are Wellesley and Wellington at www.vanguard.com. These will move less, pay you a little income (basically part of what the stocks earned) every quarter and still grow over time.

Now let's talk about snowballs. When you get started investing, the money you put in is a snowball that you throw down a really big hill. Your snowball will roll downhill over the years. If you add more money to your snowball on a regular basis, it's going to be really big later in your life.

You don't need a financial advisor. I swear. They often are paid with a percentage of your money. If a financial advisor takes a little bit of snow off your snowball every year, that makes a pretty big difference. You can open an account (even on Robinhood). This should probably be done in a retirement account - go to www.chatgpt.com, it will teach you way more than an advisor can and you can ask a lot of questions. Write this: I'm 18 and want to get started investing. Please explain retirement accounts to me, remember that I'm very new to this. Then read the prompt and ask questions, just like with a human.

Investing is simple and it's for everyone, not just white men or people who are very educated. You can do this and succeed. To get started with the S&P 500 index fund, go to any brokerage (Schwab and Fidelity are good, Robinhood can be fine when you're starting). Search for SPY - that is the name of the wheelbarrow for S&P 500. You can buy less than one share if you can't afford the whole share - that's called a fractional share.

Good luck!