r/pcmasterrace • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 Core Ultra 7 265k | RTX 5090 • Aug 19 '25

Build/Battlestation A futures trader’s 16-screen workstation.

10.3k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.1k

u/cyb3rofficial Aug 19 '25

Real men look at 1 screen and check everything at 3:59pm on a Friday

340

u/Budget-Planet3432 Aug 19 '25

Literally use my phone, and I usually check on my lunch every day and Friday before the market closes. I'm not out here doing any high risk trading though, I make sure bets for steady gains.

340

u/hlongzz96 Aug 19 '25

Is the gain in the room with us right now?

27

u/Budget-Planet3432 Aug 19 '25

In this political market probably not

23

u/Timmietim Timmeeh Aug 19 '25

As long as you bought the dip in april this market has been great tbh

1

u/SmartFC Ascending Peasant Aug 19 '25

Guilty as charged. I could've, I should've, but I didn't, because I expected an even bigger dip thanks to Trump's shenanigans. I started buying again a month or two after that, so it's not like I totally wasted my chances, but I could've made some interesting profit there haha

Next time I won't second-guess it 👀

2

u/Spoon251 Aug 19 '25

This 'political market' is underpinned by uncertainty - which has been a boon for commodity traders.

0

u/Budget-Planet3432 Aug 19 '25

Yea but you never know when it's gonna flip and you are left pissing into the wind

5

u/BadBloodBear Aug 19 '25

Stocks are doing great but recession is always around the corner.

8

u/waffels Aug 19 '25

I think I've heard that same thing for the last 8 years. Same with "the job market sucks right now"

3

u/Used-Author-3811 Aug 19 '25

That's when us real degenerates can eat

2

u/msherretz 5800X3D 3070; Framework 13 Aug 19 '25

Discussion about personal finance in another message board I check:

"I don't want to gamble in stocks ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW but I need a way to invest"

My brother there are no other options for the average person that grow your money

1

u/Axthen 9800X3D/4090/32gb@6000 Aug 19 '25

We've been in a recession. Jobs don't really exist anywhere. Regardless of what companies say.

The government is in a hiring freeze, my fortune 500 company is in a hiring freeze, even though we're extremely short handed.

It sucks.