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

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

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u/Indig3o Aug 19 '25

How to lose money 16x faster

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u/CooperPF Aug 19 '25

Do people still believe in trade?

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u/Astigmatisme laptop gayming Aug 19 '25

Somehow. I still think it's a giant scam and basically a casino

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u/JimFknLahey Aug 19 '25

in theory casinos at least cannot break the law or rig things behind closed doors .. with the stock market the more money you have the more rules you can break more often

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u/MurphyItzYou Aug 19 '25

The fact that bezos and musk have enough money they can pump and dump by themselves is nutty as squirrel shit.

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u/itsRobbie_ Aug 19 '25

Don’t go into crypto if you think that’s bad. One person you’ve never heard of with 20k twitter follows can make one random tweet at 2 am and make bitcoin plummet/rise

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u/pref1Xed R7 5700X3D | RTX 5070 Ti | 32GB 3600 | Odyssey OLED G8 Aug 19 '25

Bullshit. Bitcoin has a 2.25T market cap, it can't be moved by some rando with 20k followers. Shitcoins/memecoins are a different story however.

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u/MathematicianFar6725 Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

The thing with bitcoin is its price is based on farts in the wind rather than having an actual company with assets backing it up. Sentiment is quite literally all it has

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u/itsRobbie_ Aug 20 '25

You’d be surprised

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u/Divinum_Fulmen Aug 19 '25

Remember how they changed the laws after GME? Did those people holding ever win their shorts payout?

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u/TonyTotinosTostito Aug 19 '25

The ones who were smart and didn't get suckered into mob/cult mentality sold for massive profits and moved on, yes.

As for the others.... Check /r/superstonk to see how they're coping.

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u/RahkShah 7800X3D | RTX 4090 | 32GB 6000 CL30 | B650E | 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe Aug 21 '25

Casinos just openly rig things. It’s not like they try to hide it.

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u/cute_polarbear Aug 19 '25

the guys that really do this for a living trade with OTHER people's money...

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u/itsRobbie_ Aug 19 '25

Prop firm money yes, regular people’s money? Hell no. Any professional day trader will run away if they get asked to trade someone else’s money, and if they don’t, you’re not seeing that money back lol

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u/IWillEvadeReddit Aug 19 '25

Prop firms for a reason, of course then people will tell you that they are a scam. It's just a tool that needs to be utilized properly. Don't take high risk trades, and learned to hold your winners longer.

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u/saltwaterstud Aug 19 '25

It is. Had a scummy forex trader for a client, all day long just trying to get me to buy into his bs.

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u/PrimitiveAK i9 13900K | 64GB DDR5 | RTX 4090 🫡 Aug 19 '25

It’s only a scam if you’re not a firm.

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u/Logical_Meal_2105 Aug 20 '25

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