a lot of us have to deal with a shit 9-5 job and haven’t “emptied our heads of politics”. Do what you want but don’t think many of us working crushing jobs in sectors like service or hospitality aren’t acutely aware of how much it sucks and how much of our labor’s surplus value is being stolen. Do what you want but don’t think you’re uniquely harmed by drudge work in a way that others are not.

Come on dude you definitely know what else to do, you just don't want to do it and you'd rather work very little and extract surplus value in the most abstract way imaginable. Hey if you want to do that, do it, but don't try to fish for sympathy by posting about it, like at least have some fucking decency.

I would be highly skeptical of easy money in stock market (there are millions of dipshits trying to do the same). If you take 1% on trade, what is your probability of catastrophic loss (guess arriving otm)? 1%? Congratulations, you'll get boned sooner or later. Risk management rules if you haven't actually done it is wish casting, risks of slipping in thin market and actual realized losses compared to feely-wise "i can exit when i want"

Aside from that, likely in the west, not the first or the last

OTOH there's a lot of jealousy over people who I see out and about as "normal" and knowing I'm not going to be them.

Idolizing neurotypical people is silly and we autistic people are cooler and better

Part of me wishes I could just deal with a 9-5 job like most people and maybe empty my mind of Politics.

Result-based 9-5 jobs that are 100% remote aren't so bad. There's the expectation that I'm online between 9 and 5 PM, but a cron job I made opens the chat program at 9 for me and I wake up hours later

You were around for meme stocks in 2020 but are still seriously trying to do this?

I could run this every day and be in and out of my trade within minutes.

You may make $300 a day on the short term but you will not make $300 a day on average. The average part is what kills this dream. On average you won't make as much as you would at the toilet cleaning job or the shelf stocking job. This is by design. You're not allowed out of the class unless you have enough real property or you exploit the labor of others (preferably both).

The sell-out that will uplift you out of drudgery isn't stocks, it's rent-seeking and exploitation. Thus you must transform from finance bro to real estate bro or entrepreneur bro. Capitalism is nefarious in the way it makes you choose between being the exploiter vs the exploited. You can do one or the other. Only one is the ticket to winning capitalism and it's the one that will take your leftist soul.

If you can, please I implore you to try doing what I'm doing and looking into working in healthcare (not insurance but real healthcare)>

I may not be having a 24/7 party at work, but it's recession-proof and porks have figured out how to make it a permanent recession for the working class and a permanent boom for them. All the tech jobs that got lost even though the rich have been having the best five years of their lives since COVID simply because "We just don't need that many". Best of all, it's all part of my attitude towards work: I want the least annoying way to pay rent, and no porky, I won't start a business stop telling me to.

So your plan is to momentum trade SPY 0DTE's?

You might read the RDTE prospectus to understand how the other side of the table makes money off of you. As a matter of fact I would urge you to, instead of buying 0DTE's (lottery tickets), consider profiting off of that time decay and market mispricing by WRITING 0DTE's and synthetically covering with a deep ITM long dated call. That's the essence of the RDTE ticker. It makes money by selling slightly OTM 0DTE's

Investing in stocks during a recession is a pretty bold move.

You aren't the first, and won't be the last person who thought they figured out a surefire way to make money day trading. Wall Street firms have access to so much more information, cheaper trades, faster execution, and can front run you if you're using Robinhood or one of the free trading platforms.

Maybe you're that .0001% that actually figured it out. I hope you are, but please be careful not to delude yourself.

If you can code try to get a cushy remote work job, you'll have plenty of free time for your hobbies

It's never unethical to scrape a few bucks off some bank. The trick is actually winning, and not losing all your hair from the stress of day trading.

Also if it literally is as simple as "sell at +20% or -40%", you could probably automate it and let it go with small amounts of cash for a while, just see how it goes according to the rules you're setting for yourself.

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Another reason why I want to make this work: I don't like people.

It's been this way my whole life. I don't get along with other people, or more accurately no matter how much I try to please others or help others I just get shit on. Of course I don't want to deal with people after being bullied and shunned all my life! People suck.

At least with this it's just me and the screen. I don't need to try to analyze my boss' passive-aggressive messaging or try to constantly figure out what everyone wants. I can just focus on what I'm doing and plan for the few possibilities rather than deal with irrational creatures getting in my way every day.

I know a loooot of people in renewable energy and public health considering jumping to finance. Anything remotely good for society in this upcoming administration will be non viable careers.

I cannot wait to leave. Please God let my work visa get approved.

you could get into sports betting instead

I don't know shit about the stock market but if you can get that bag I say go for it. Spend your free time making music and organizing, give some portion of your ill-gotten gains to mutual aid.

If you're so good at stocks, why not makes as much money as possible and donate it to do good? Prove all the critical people here wrong by donating to left wing orgs and the Palestinians and random people's GoFundMes.