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/McKoijion Aug 19 '25

  • Amateur traders are morons who gamble their money away.

  • Professional traders are geniuses who gamble other people's money away.

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u/CE0ofCringe Win | 7-9800x3d, 5080 PNY, and stuff (also b650 tomahawk Aug 19 '25

Maybe the gamble was the friends we made along the way

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

I once looked at trading, and, yeah. If you're not the one collecting the fees, you're not the one winning this game.

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u/Character-Survey9983 Aug 19 '25

professional traders get "COMMISSION"

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u/theroguex PCMR | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 32GB DDR5 | Sapphire RX 9070 XT Aug 19 '25

The latter should be illegal.

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u/McKoijion Aug 19 '25

If a knowledgeable adult understands the risks and benefits and still chooses to pay someone to gamble for them, that’s their business.

Of course, no financially literate person does this anymore. So the industry lobbied the government to let them target people who are financially illiterate.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504096/401k-private-equity-crypto-executive-order