>>10490470Yeah when I was trying to get into stonks with my friend, I noticed all sorts of interesting things about trends, patterns, and mind games. I'm someone who's really good at pattern recognition and noticing trends, but stonks bamboozled me to no end! So many times I found myself starting to do the whole "but I anticipated your presumption of my foresight, and therefore I inverted the bet to get ahead of your quadruple gambit!" So many times, at the end day trading ended up feeling just like regular luck-based gambling, rather than a skilled mind-game (or at least I got outplayed so bad). We didn't do so bad that we lost all of our money, we only slightly went negative, but my friend argues that it is exactly what the true powers at play want us to be at, so that we're not too defeated that we never return, but lost just barely enough that we think that next time will be when we turn it around, and in the end keep on playing the game, slowly bleeding.
Same thing with investing in general; it's not a simple thing, a lot of stuff needs to line up in order for you to get the CHANCE to try to invest.
Actually I just got some interesting news about an obscure card game that I collect. It's strong in the secondary market, with my modest collection being like 10k+ already, and in an interview with the IP owner, he said that when the game first died (it got frozen into oblivion due to legal battle BS, that's the only reason it died), 90% of the sealed inventory got destroyed, and the remainder liquidated off, so when the game DOES come back (it's in the works right now), THAT could be a huge opportunity for people like me, sitting on big collections already!
That's only an opportunity for an opportunity, mind you, but still shows how so much more is still needed to 'get a return in investments'.
