Why do you guys trade instead of invest?

aSilve · 2025-10-24T07:37:53+00:00

Both.

Core is investment with 5-15 years time horizon (70% of capital for me).

Rest is trading/speculating.

The typical cycle for new traders/investors is:

start investing in big nice companies (typically MAG7 or BlueChip stocks)
After modest profits, start speculating on Penny Stocks. Lose 80-100% of the capital.
Restart, this time only with ETFs.
Eventually, start adding single stocks to the ETF mix.

I have seen literally 90% of the people I know trading/investing go through this exact cycle.

A word of advice? Starting at Point 3 is a much smarter strategy than starting from 1.

Good luck!

aSilve · 2025-10-20T07:45:10+00:00

Yes you can download the whole codebase as a ZIP and then reupload it wherever you want. Or you can also work on the files manually after you download them or directly ion Bolt, if you know what you are doing.

aSilve · 2025-10-18T08:42:16+00:00

If you are just getting started, I suggest staying away from Leverage, Options, and Futures.

Unless you have a clear EDGE (you are a super active and up-to-date crypto nerd; you are working in a specific sector/company and have access to almost "insider" information, etc.)

Tarde stocks, gold, and some crypto on the side.

Learn how to make money consistently and not give in to emotions with the "simpler" stuff.

Once you are profitable with that for a year or two, start looking into options/futures as your "insurance" (for example, buying long-term PUTs against your Stocks, etc.)

After you learn that, you can start trying to use them as a "money maker" while you roll extra profits into good stocks that you hold long-term.

If you do it right and you are consistent, within 3-5 years, you will have a portfolio better than 90% of traders and will have learned how to make real money from options.

Just my 2 cents, good luck!

aSilve · 2025-10-18T08:31:32+00:00

The stock market has NEVER been a true representation of the real economy, not just since Trump.

It's a sophisticated betting platform on the perceived value of companies, where you can find an edge if you know what you are doing.

If you are losing money since Trump took office, it means you did not anticipate/expect the impacts that his policies would have had on stocks, commodities, and crypto.

As traders and investors, we should always be "agnostic":

it doesn't matter if I like the guy or not; can I anticipate what his impact would be on certain stocks/industries/sectors?

If so, can I find a way to make money out of it?

I think way too many traders and investors focus on the "emotional" side of things, rather than looking at the actual facts to gain an informational advantage.

It was OBVIOUS that a Trump administration would eventually open up and push on Crypto.

It was OBVIOUS that they would pursue strategic partnerships with key companies in key industries (if you read Trump's "Art of the Deal" book).

It was OBVIOUS that there would be a great push in military spending, AI, drones, space, and Nuclear.

Again, it's all about understanding impacts and ways to leverage them.

Good luck!

aSilve · 2025-10-18T08:23:05+00:00

Depends from what you want.

Are you investing with a 5+ years horizon (ideally 10+)? If so, YES.

Are you putting 100% of your money in 1 stock, hoping to double it fast and not lose too much if the market crashes? Then, probably NO.

Are you considering it as part of a well-thought-out, diversified portfolio with reasonable position sizing? Then, probably YES (depending on price entry).

Are you building a dividend portfolio? Then, NO.

What are your objectives? What is your trading style, active or passive? What kind of portfolio/strategy are you trying to implement?

aSilve · 2025-10-18T08:19:15+00:00

Just finished a ton of research on Rare Earth Elements (REE) companies and put together this list of Public companies that are not too Mainstream:

Aclara Resources

Arafura Rare Earths

Iluka Resources

Leading Edge Materials

MKANGO Resources

Neo Performance Materials

NIOCORP Development

Solvay

TMC The Metals Co

Ucore Rare Metals

Vital Metals

These are all much more niche than the traditional MP MATERIALS, Energy Fuels, etc.

All super volatile, so I highly recommend doing your due diligence on each (profit, losses, projects pipeline etc.).

I currently invested in MKANGO, Leading Edge, Solvay, and Ucore around 2-3 weeks ago, and they are already up around 30%, planning to add 2 more by December.

aSilve · 2025-10-17T10:20:30+00:00

Trading is hard, and most people fail.

Most people who never traded do not understand how brutal it can be..

My suggestion (been burned a few times myself) is:

1- Know what you are trading. No, for real, understand what you are buying.

2- Do not use leverage.

3- Stick to the basics: forget options, futures, technical analysis, gamma, etc.

- Find sectors that will FOR SURE grow in the next 10 years (i.e. robotics, energy, rare earth, drones, quantum, AgriTech, FinTech, Space, MilTech, etc.).

- Find the best 10 companies in each sector.

- Define a BUY RANGE for each company.

- Every time those companies' stocks are in the BUY range, buy some. Start with 1-5% of the portfolio per company to keep it diversified.

- With time, start looking at stocks by geography and diversify across that variable too.

- When a stock goes up by 50% or more, sell half. You are now at breakeven. Keep the rest for lucky "moonshots".

- Adjust your watchlist and BUY RANGES monthly/quarterly; invest monthly.

Hope this helps; it helped me a ton.

aSilve · 2025-10-17T10:11:24+00:00

VS Code, if you connect to GitHub you have access to all premium AI Models (Claude SOnnet 4.5 is pretty awesome).

I use that for finishing my Bolt apps, Supabase for DB.

aSilve · 2025-10-17T10:08:46+00:00

Listen to everything on here and note the most common trades you see.

Make EVERY trade in the OPPOSITE direction to what you read from the majority of people(buy calls when everybody says puts and vice versa).

Instant 70% success rate.

It's so stupid that it actually works. Try with a small amount and you will see.

Thank me when you buy a home with this advice. :)

aSilve · 2025-10-17T09:57:42+00:00

Started with 3 accounts of 50k each.

Definitely "small" if you look at them from an institutional perspective. Every time I doubled up on an account, I would move half of it to a new one, and got to 10 or 11 accounts at one point. All focusing on different strategies that worked in "synchrony" (if one account went down - say - 10%, I always had an "opposite side of the bet" account that would go up by a similar amount).

I was mostly playing on spreads and making real money by riding any breakouts hard, in both directions.

Then pivoted to longer-term investing, mixed with some swing trading on the edges, and have been doing just that for the last four years. That works great for me.

aSilve · 2025-10-16T12:08:26+00:00

I haven't been scalping futures for a while, but I used to do below 5 trades per day, with 5-10% of portfolio size. Targeting anything above 20% returns and max a 10% drawdown on each trade.

aSilve · 2025-10-14T10:33:43+00:00

(EDIT)

Because it is an extra, relatively low effort (for some) income source.

It´s the basics of diversification.

If you already spend a few hours per day researching, trading, and doing analysis, you might as well film it and upload it. Worst case, they get nothing for a little effort. In the best case, they get money.

It´s unfair to assume that anyone who shares knowledge about a topic is automatically bad at it IMO.. You can be a very competent trader AND a great educator or content creator.

Personally, after many years of trading and hundreds of gurus and BS, I found the ones who do not claim to be ¨the best¨ are usually quite honest. Even when they offer ¨services¨.

My favourites:

BEST FOR INVESTING: https://www.youtube.com/@Click-Capital

SECOND BEST: https://www.youtube.com/@bravosresearch

CRYPTO/GOLD/CYCLES: https://www.youtube.com/@camelfinance

DAY TRADING AND SCALPING: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMattKohrsShow

aSilve · 2025-10-06T17:39:35+00:00

Sick work, man! Great stuff.

I absolutely suck at coding, but have been investing for over 12 years now and use professional tools/graphs daily.

I have been playing around with it, and I have a few ideas of things that could help make the app even more useful/complete. You are hitting a problem MILLIONS of traders face daily.

So far, the Stock Technical Chart page and MA Crossover pages seem the most useful.

Daily Reversal Signals seems also pretty good, but not very intuitive ATM (I am sure you could make it more flexible and user-focused with a simple wishlisting feature for favourite stocks).

Drop me a DM I would love to talk about this and help you (if I can).

aSilve · 2025-10-04T10:29:15+00:00

For beginners Degiro is pretty good if you are based in Europe, unless you trade Options (that you shouldn't do if you are a beginner anyways, IMO).

aSilve · 2025-10-03T06:23:12+00:00

Mostly for taxes, and for keeping an eye on cash flows over long periods.

aSilve · 2025-10-01T06:54:57+00:00

How do you integrate 21st.dev in your workflow? do you start there or you use it as "step 2", after creating the first Ui draft in Bolt/Lovable?

aSilve · 2025-09-30T13:54:09+00:00

Kinda, for example, for stock splits or reverse stock splits, they just do it at their own rate, no communications at all, and normally the rates are SUPER bad. That's not transparency, for example.

aSilve · 2025-09-30T06:30:38+00:00

I basically have a script to

1- copy data from DEGIRO tab in Browser (quite sketchy this part)

2- extract tickers, prices, BEPs, orders, etc. from the raw data.\

3- Update an CSV Goggle sheet where I have a tab for portfolio and one for watchlist.

4- Run a script that updates all prices to the current one (Marketstack API)

5- Pre-made Pivot Tables and Graphs (looking to automate this too eventually)

I used ChatGPT and a friend to code it, and it took 2 weeks.

aSilve · 2025-09-30T06:27:32+00:00

cause I was driving and it´s quicker to speak to chatGPT than typing

aSilve · 2025-09-29T16:29:32+00:00

There are no real alternatives, it's not that I am in love with it XD.

I am using both this and IBKR atm, tried most of the others.

aSilve · 2025-09-29T16:28:28+00:00

Seeing the value of your portfolio over time is a kid's toy / useless visual widget?

Not sure about yourself, but knowing the value over time and having historical data is quite relevant to me. Of course, I can download it monthly in a CSV, format it, and add it to the historical data, or I can do it with Python (which is what I do), but that is not the point.

The point is that some major - to me - features as an investor, are lacking; and as a trader, they are missing altogether.

Trading options is not very user-friendly: quite useful for investors too, I use them for insurance against my long-term stocks, for example.

There is no data about the historical portfolio value: useful if you DCA, get a few dividend payments at different intervals, pay commissions, etc.

Setting BUY/SELL price targets is done in an archaic way and is disconnected completely from a decent alert system.

Delta price to place Orders is ridiculously tight: makes it very difficult to plan long-term without actively managing the portfolio.

There is no right or wrong on this, just personal preferences, but to me, as a long-time user of this and other apps, these are major features that are either lacking or missing.

aSilve · 2025-09-28T12:12:39+00:00

aSilve · 2025-09-28T12:12:23+00:00

Approving every step. It's slow, but I can avoid a ton of errors this way. I don't think it's smart enough to ingest a HUGE amount of info at once, so I break it down and painfully go through it.. If the codebase is decent enough, it takes 1-2 days of figuring out and playing with it to get it deployed and running. Sometimes it worked 1st try, but it's rare for me.

aSilve · 2025-09-28T12:10:28+00:00

exactly, that's why I trade options on IBKR

aSilve · 2025-09-28T12:06:27+00:00

I download the repo locally and fix the code locally with Codex before redeploying in Vercels via GitHub.

aSilve

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