/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17503667]

Books about repeated failure, broken dreams and ambitions, coming to terms with your own mediocrity?

[Anonymous No.17503670]

The Red and the Black (except for the coming to terms part)

[Anonymous No.17503679]

My life
I don’t have a book but I do have a song: Helplessness Blues, is uplifting though.

[Anonymous No.17503692]

Not a book but Amadeus is a good study in how mediocrity and failure can drive you (literally) insane

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17503703]

Tartar Steppe

>>17503670
The dude kept succeeding though. Sure he wanted to be an emperor and even pope at one point, but he had plenty of success.

[Anonymous No.17503720]

>>17503667
Stoner, obviously.

[Anonymous No.17503724]

The Savage Detectives
Tropic of cancer

[Anonymous No.17503728]

>>17503667
you are fine anon and I value you as a person.

[Anonymous No.17503739]

>>17503692
Salieri wasn't even mediocre though, he was above average.

[Anonymous No.17503751]

>>17503739
Imagine competing against fucking Mozart. You could be great at what you do but you can’t really do shit about natural virtuosic talent

[Anonymous No.17503752]

>>17503667

[Anonymous No.17503775]

>>17503739
It's all relative though. Mozart existed and therefore he was a failure in his own eyes. I would kill for the talent of Salieri

[Anonymous No.17503802]

The movie Leaving Las Vegas. I don't think anybody would pay money to turn a couple of hundred pages to see a mediocre person realize they were a nobody. Watching Nicholas Cage commit suicide before his mediocrity descends into degeneracy like his female counterpart for 1.5 hours is worth four bucks.

[Anonymous No.17503985]

>>17503703
>even pope
I'm ordering my copy right now

[Anonymous No.17503999]

>>17503667
my diary desu

[Anonymous No.17504002]

>>17503703
>even pope
I'll have to read it now. I too had aspirations of becoming pope in my youth, for some reason. I'm not even catholic

[Anonymous No.17504275]

Good thread, any more recommendations ? Just now I also began to fully realize, and accept, that I will never be the man I have to be to be able to live. I know modern therapy is mostly about solving this by trying to induce a new perspective in the client but that didnt work, so pls anons go on.

[Anonymous No.17504287]

>>17503667
Success is repeated failure until success.

[Anonymous No.17504297]

>>17503667
Stoner

[Anonymous No.17504315]

>>17504275
>that I will never be the man I have to be to be able to live.
Who is that man and where exactly do you think you fall short

[Anonymous No.17504347]

>>17503775
Remember that this whole Salieri rivalry, pre-Amadeus, was a fantasy of Pushkin and not historical reality. Pushkin, who was a gifted waster. Literally the ego-boosting daydream of a top-tier talent. Probably the real Salieri was quite content with a solid degree of fame in his lifetime. He got dementia late on, but was still active until his sixties and not some kind of bitter wreck. He worked with Schubert and with Beethoven, seeing the next generation.

[Anonymous No.17504379]

>>17504315
Think Mike Tyson/David Tua type, I am shorter and always had something to do with combat sports when i was younger but I gave up on it due to knowing it wont amount to anything. I always valued physical power and prowess above everything, still do and that will never change. But I am short, small boned, balding (wouldnt mind if the rest wasnt this shitty). I just cant accept that i dont fit the archetype of person I always aspired to be, and saw myself in due to being delusional. More or less feel like the right mind and soul in the wrong body.

[Anonymous No.17504427]

Just one long ameliorating string of disappointments after another.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGBGGF8

[Anonymous No.17504504]

>>17504427
You are a shill and a pedophile. Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.17504551]

>>17503679
God fucking dammit I made the mistake of listening to this and it's the cringiest, "millennial with anxiety" indie song I have ever heard. Listen to some Burial if you want to be sad and uplifted

[Anonymous No.17504563]

>>17503724
Savage Detective and the whole bolano bibliography is what you want to read right now. Books for desperate people in search for courage

[Anonymous No.17504679]

>>17503667
>coming to terms with your own mediocrity?

Pussy loser

[Anonymous No.17504696]

>>17503667
This image reminds me of Houllebecq

[Anonymous No.17505247]

>>17503670
What translation?

[Anonymous No.17505364]

>>17503667
Its seldom got to do with actual mediocrity. The distribution of competent, mediocre and incompetent people in any field is about equal across the board and comparable to any high school. Whether you "make it" or not largely depends on circumstances that have nothing to do with the quality of your work but instead deal with the fact whether your work is appropriate to the zeitgeist and capital interests, whether you have the necessary social connections, whether you are willing to adapt and change your work to appeal to these factors, whether you are good at self-promotion etc.

[Anonymous No.17505373]

>>17505364
this, I got a huge high paying first job because my dad has business connections and I´m a complete brainlet lmao

Nepostism is a real thing and extremely powerful

[Anonymous No.17505377]

>>17505364
Somethings are apparent, nepotism or not, especially talent. Any fraudster knows he is one, and if youre not the type of person to live this way it will end you.

[Anonymous No.17505392]

>>17505364
I should add. Most of people who wind up here, wind up here because they lack in the lattet part of my post. I have found the best professions for people like these is something that requires you to work entirely by yourself and gives you results based on entirely objective factors with no human interference (the more subjective the field, the more it will be populated by networking normies and based on nepotism and resemble a high school). One such perfect profession are stocks. I made 40k from 3k in one year and although I feel sad that my more subjective work will never be appreciated, I feel good that the stock market rewards the work that otherwise got ignored by normies in subjective field. Here, I am freed: I use my own money and the market doesnt care whether im sociable or cool or how I present myself, it takes my money and when I hit the sell button if I was right, it will give me more money back. No normie gate-keepers, no dealing with idiots who infest subjective fields and turn it into a social clique. I still feel a bit empty because I think I was intended to use my intelligence in something else, but normies dont want it so..ill be happy with the market. By my calculations I should be able to buy a new apartment by the end of 2022. Fuck normies.

[Anonymous No.17505408]

>>17505392
stock market tips?

[Anonymous No.17505421]

>>17505377
Talent is only tangentially related to "making it". The more subjective a field is the less actual talent you need. The more subjective a field is the more you will need to be likeable and appeal to the taste of the gatekeepers. The more subjective a field is the more it is run like a nepotistic clique. Im not saying there arent any talented people in those fields, just that it is impossible to make it if you dont "fit in" with those who decide who will get a chance or not and 99% of those people only let in people who fit their taste and that they find likeable.

[Anonymous No.17505431]

>>17505408
I cant help you. I research stocks, management, do some TA and then decide on some general considerations about the industry and market overall whether to buy it or not. If you are not an iidot you will figure it out. Im just glad Im not reliant on normie gatekeepers anymore.

[Anonymous No.17505437]

>>17505421
Well not all things are subjective as you said, and many people have passions that use objective criteria, most sports for example.

[Anonymous No.17505442]

>>17505392
any books you can recommend on trading? sick to the bottom of by soul of working in an office and having to put up with braindead faggot normies all day. it's making me want to die

[Anonymous No.17505444]

>>17505431
I started doing insider investing and its making me a shit ton of money, which is good, Im very surprised that so far I didn´t have 1 bad investment with this strategy, am I just being lucky?

[Anonymous No.17505483]

>>17505437
Its funny that you say that because I used to be a scout (not a professional one but working for myself and some scouting agencies). Id consistently turn in better lists and reports than 99% of the industry but it didnt matter, Ive seen literal retards who couldnt tell two players apart get hired to the big leagues because they had a big smile and talked a big game and were good at self promotion and big league sports is infested with literal retards who promote their cousins and cant string two coherent sentences together. But the margins are small with my list youd make 2.5 players per pick, while the average is 2.00 or so. This is actually a huge difference in the industry but its subjective and small enough that the owner who doesnt understand the details will not figure out he is spending millions yearly on a staff of idiots who exist in a hermetically sealed box of nepotism and social cliques. Its so bad that you not only see literal retards getting promoted and hired but even people who have a proven track record of being total failures recast in new roles rather than losing their jobs forever for being incompetent.

[Anonymous No.17505506]

>>17505442
I havent read a single stock book. I only read philosophy books and do my research. Ive come from a background of finding undervalued athletes so after that failed since I could not make it into the clique I said fuck this shit Ill just find undervalued stocks instead. I plan to expand and simply consist on finding shit that I believe is undervalued and selling it later for higher returns. This way I can constantly dump shit on retarded normies and make money off them because I am 90% of the time more correct than they are. Not exactly my life of choice but society forced me into this. If Id ever had a position of power If make sure to promote competent people but fucking mediocre normies either fail to recognize competence or decide to dump it into the trash because they prefer likeable people and their buddies. Well now ill be dumping stocks on their ass and making money off it.

[Anonymous No.17505508]

>>17505506
based

[Anonymous No.17505509]

>>17505483
Scout for what sport ? In martial arts as an example charisma helps but a dude who ices people will be noticed, no matter how boring he is.

[Anonymous No.17505510]

>>17505506
holy based

[Anonymous No.17505527]

>>17503667
test

[Anonymous No.17505536]

my struggle desu

[Anonymous No.17505538]

>>17505509
Hockey. Ive worked with some people who scout for NHL now. 5 of them I know of first hand. Three mediocrities, two total idiots (worse than your average forum poster). I realized then that its got nothing to do with competence. I mean i suspected this before but i was initially under the impression that if only you could prove you were literally more correct than 95% of people youd get a gig. But you dont since the whole thing is a buddy-system from the lowest scout up to the GM and that part is hermetically sealed off from the business end and the owner. So yhe business side doesnt know for example that had they used my list (cost one laptop and less than 1k in expenses) theyd get better results than paying an entire staff millions in expenditures. Now ive actually proved this statistically and objectively for a third of the league for a given draft but if you show it to someone in hockey operations they wont care because youre not their buddy and the self preservation instinct kicks in and the people on the business side dont understand the details and wont want to throw their coworkers under the bus. So the owner doesnt know he is spending millions on a staff of idiots outperformed by a man with a laptop and less than one grand in expenditure. And there is nothing you can do about it, you have to descend to a caveman level of idiocy, suck up to the right people and never appear to threatening or too competent against them and ill just never do that i cant pretend so ill rather do my money in stocks and such, the market pays you what you know and thats that no high school social cliques shit.

[Anonymous No.17505565]

>>17505538
Show us this list so we can make some money betting on games

[Anonymous No.17505568]

>>17503667
Un homme qui dort by Perec

[Anonymous No.17505582]

>>17505538
Ive done similar on the writing end. Wrote a genius aritcle that the editor said was good but he couldnt post it only to then post it as a column with his own name and slightly reworked content that was my own. Im never going to deal with people again, i realized i have absolutely no chance of ever making it in a field where other people have to approve your work or gatekeepers exist. So the only possibilites I have are those where returns are based solely on objective factors such as what is something selling for. I dont actually like working with stocks but its the only field that allows me to use my intelligence and work ethic without being undermined by normies and retards who create nepotistic social circles around them. Its just your money, your choice of stock, and numbers on a screen. Hit buy ot sell with a mouse click. Numbers change and you get your payout by a computer. Its supremely boring and lifeless but I dont see how else I can use my intelligence and work ethic in this society, its either scrubbing toilets or buying shit that is undervalued and dumping it on bigger retards than me for higher prices. Do I feel good? No but a normal society would take advantage of my intelligence and willingness to work but it has instead forced me into this. I view it as a tax on normies for being idiots and constructing high school level gatekeeping communities in every industry they infest.

[Anonymous No.17505798]

>>17504551
How jaded do you have to be.

[Anonymous No.17505806]

>>17505538
This is literally the plot to Moneyball

[Anonymous No.17505955]

>>17503667
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

[Anonymous No.17505978]

>>17503667

[Anonymous No.17506032]

>>17505978
Anyone else dreading the rest of their pathetic lifes because their spirituality denies them this kind of end even when you still romanticise it ?

[Nemo !!GgBWHLRiayD No.17506139]

>>17503667
One should not come to terms with mediocrity, but, rather, mediocrity should be terminated in pro of excellence, by way of love; love never fails; love always saves, fixing all breakages, covering all distances.

[Anonymous No.17506161]

>>17505806
The difference is I didnt even focus on stats (baseball lends itself better to stats than hockey), I was just flat out better at their own game of qualitative evaluation. But nothing can be done about it if you arent buddies with the right people

[Anonymous No.17506169]

>>17503667
Anyone else perfectly okay with being mediocre? I realized pretty early I was just average and when I met my as yet life long best friend who has a gifted tier IQ I was never in any doubt. I guess it was good to have a humbling experience like that early. A lot of people could spare themselves a lot of anguish in just admitting to themselves that they're just mediocre, nothing special.

[Anonymous No.17507968]

>>17505444
Yes, we are in a turbo-bubble that will pop sometime this decade (I am riding it too and making a shitton of money so no complaints). Just don’t delude yourself, as many people are, into believing you’re a genius investor for being profitable right now; it’s virtually impossible to be losing money in this market

[Anonymous No.17507985]

>>17503667
My upcoming book, which is an embellished version of my diary desu

[Anonymous No.17507986]

>>17507968
Good point. Ty fren

[Anonymous No.17508034]

>>17505421
this. im a graphic designer and i recently realized that what is considered "good" is basically always hyper up nonsense. its the name, the brand that makes you work considered good, which in a feedback loop makes you good.
ive starting learning to code for this reason. at least maybe if i get good enough at coding i can develop apps or something which provide objective functionality and value to people

[Anonymous No.17508048]

>>17508034
Based

[Anonymous No.17508254]

>>17505247
Slater (Oxford classics) is best

[Anonymous No.17508259]

Crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.17508853]

>>17503667
Whatever and Jude The Obscure work pretty well.

[Anonymous No.17508873]

>>17503802
I like this movie a lot. Definitely deserved the Oscar.

Next three films
>The Rock
>Con Air
>Face/Off
World-historic Chad move

[Anonymous No.17508884]

>>17503667
your diary desu

[Anonymous No.17508892]

>>17503703
based garak

[Anonymous No.17508902]

>>17503667
Your probably fine dude. Think about who you are comparing yourself to. I'm sure you can hold down a job and that. if your doing that, your doing fine.

[Anonymous No.17508952]

>>17503802
It's also based on a book, the author killed himself two weeks after he signed off on the film to be made.

[Anonymous No.17509126]

>>17506161
Which players for example? I'm a Flames fan, and their scouting sucks cock

[Anonymous No.17509668]

>>17508902
Thanks anon. I try but I have a loser like personality that I'm constantly at battle with. Very quick to give up, talk down on myself, defer responsibility, shy away from challenges. It sucks.

[Anonymous No.17509719]

>>17503999
Almost everyones diary desu

[Anonymous No.17509725]

>>17503667
Dubliners

[Anonymous No.17509824]

>>17503667
Normal people are mediocre, but they don't call themselves mediocre, they just call themselves normal, or average. Mediocrity only happens when you try and apply yourself to something that you aren't immediately good at. Who are you even measuring yourself against? People who have done the same thing as you, but worked harder, worked longer, and gotten through more failure than you have? Of course the world is not based purely on talent or skill, luck and connections are important too, but you will get a hell of a lot farther if you break through your failure and keep trying to get good. To paint a brighter picture for you, you can either choose to become a pathetic, grotesque, ligotti-esque loser or you can explore the boundaries of your ability by pushing yourself harder in spite of your mediocrity. Going from being mediocre to being just good at something is only a matter of hard work. If you "come to terms with your own mediocrity" you will never acknowledge that there is even the potential for something beyond that, and your life ends there.

[Anonymous No.17509829]

>>17509824
Based

[Anonymous No.17509841]

>>17509126
Too many to mention. From Europe alone I was talking about Rasmus Dahlin before anybody even knew who he was. I considered Elias Pettersson as a better prospect than Timothy Liljegren when no other source did. I valued Pettersson and Hischier as top 15 picks when no other source did (this includes the McKenzie list which is the aggregate of actual NHL scouts). I was raving about Moritz Seider one year before he was even draft eligible and when everbody acted like it was a surprise Detroit took him at #6 I said it was a good pick. I rated Chytil highly before anybody talked about him as a first rounder. I rated Konecny higher than anyone and knew he was going to be a solid NHL player. I ranked Evgeni Svechnikov outside of the first round and he looks like a total bust so far when everybody had him in teens. I knew Simon Johansson was a draft worthy prospect as an overager when nobody had a clue he even existed. I knew Brandon Carlo would be an NHL defenseman that can log 18+ minutes a night and ranked him accordingly when many had him in the 2nd round. I ranked Kotkaniemi ahead of Boqvist when people laughed at me for doing that (only to see Kotkaniemi go ahead of Boqvist in the actual draft months later). I'd rank Jan Jenik highly, watch out for him the kid is going to be a player (he went in the 3rd round and nobody talked about him). I'd compare my list to other sources and came up with names only I rated in the first round (aka they did not appear in the first round on any other list), had 4 such names for a given draft year (when i was doing this publically) and all 4 wound up being full-time NHL players. I ran my draft list through every NHL team to compare the results of what they'd achieve with my list vs what they actually did. Keep in mind I was alone scouting the entire NHL draft (basically impossible to get good viewings of so many players) spent less than $1,000 on streams. Ran the results, it turns out you'd do better than a third of the league with my list. Of course if I could focus on just a region, I'm reasonably sure I'd outperform 90% of acual team scouts. Gave up when I saw who some of the guys who "made it" were (even worked with one of them and if you asked me this guy would ever become an NHL scout I'd laugh at you, nice guy don't get me wrong but clearly not a guy you want scouting, i'm saying about equal to your average midiwt fan posting on forums, the smarter fans were actually better than that guy). Anyways I knew my entire effort was pointless when i saw some people I knew get into the big leagues who ranged from idiots to average in skill level (the best guy I know in terms of scouting and no it's not me, the guy is a literal genius, did not even get an interview up to now even though he has been doing it for years and can back it all up with results, but he is a bit odd personality wise so he is never going to get a chance probably).

[Anonymous No.17509892]

>>17509841
>Too many to mention. From Europe alone I was talking about Rasmus Dahlin before anybody even knew who he was. I considered Elias Pettersson as a better prospect than Timothy Liljegren when no other source did. I valued Pettersson and Hischier as top 15 picks when no other source did (this includes the McKenzie list which is the aggregate of actual NHL scouts).

Just to clarify these first points were about time of when this actually happened. It usually follows me saying someone is the real deal and being called an idiot only for it turn out that way later on and others hopping on board. Sometimes this persists all the way to the actual draft day (Konecny, Seider, Carlo, Chytil, Jenik etc.) while other times people come around to just holding the same view I held months before them (EP being great, Liljegren being overrated etc.).

Anyways 1-2 years ago I saw the idiots who were getting hired as actual NHL scouts and switched to stocks. I realized that whatever it is that it takes to convince an NHL team to hire you, I don't have it (I only have the results but apparently that doesn't matter as much as I initially thought). So I switched to stocks because it gives me an objective return for being right or wrong without having to get through human gatekeepers and sucking up to them and "fitting in". Stocks give you some good money but it is pretty boring, it is just numbers on a screen.

[Anonymous No.17509950]

>>17509841
Forgot, I also pushed for Vince Dunn and Jordan Greenway as first rounders. Nobody else had them in 1st round.

[Anonymous No.17509989]

[Anonymous No.17510023]

Lost Illusions, sort of.

[Anonymous No.17510055]

>>17504551
Too cool for FF, just "cool" enough for Burial...epic

[Anonymous No.17510065]

>>17503667
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell

[Anonymous No.17510077]

>>17503667
Do you realize that it all come down to you abhorring uncertainty? That you are certainty freak that does not want to get out of his shell?

For high reward you have to take risk.

[Anonymous No.17510078]

>>17503751
He didn't really compete though, him and his Italian buddies ran the Viennese music world.

[Anonymous No.17510095]

>>17505408
It's all luck.

[Anonymous No.17510131]

Hey, brother, I was you a couple of years ago. It gets better, but keep trying and absolutely stop comparing yourself to other people, this last step is absolutely crucial as it you always keep you miserable and unwilling to take steps in the right direction.

[Anonymous No.17510320]

>>17510078
I mean in the movie, real life is another thing obviously

[Anonymous No.17510351]

>>17509892
>>17509841
Interesting thanks anon. The Flames could use someone like you... Did you play hockey?

I'm also investing in stocks since March (who isn't) and am up 30% in my TFSA and 250% in my margin.

What was your strategy? I did the classic balancing of high risk (low-cap Green Energy and miners + dude WEED) and lower risk (traditional energy and boomer mutual). I'd be curious how your trawling for data. Mine is reddit and /biz/ and now looking at SEC fillings for smaller cap stocks.

Anyways, hope you make it Anon.

[Anonymous No.17510395]

>>17503667
A Meaningful Life.

Searching for purpose, but not really knowing what to do, lost and stumbling.

[Anonymous No.17510397]

>>17510351
Oh and I should mention for this thread I'm completely mediocre in my studies (PhD in Classics) and so feel the pessimism. Everyone here is fucking cringe beyond belief though. This is the exit strategy

[Anonymous No.17510411]

>>17510351
>SEC fillings for smaller cap stocks.

Not the same anon but this strategy has been by far what made me more money

[Anonymous No.17510428]

>>17510411
I've just started myself, but they don't have a good Canadian version of openinsider dot com. Essentially: insider buy = stock goes up (especially if you can determine if it's before a quarterly report) and insider sell = stock goes down?

[Anonymous No.17510440]

>>17510428
basically, but I only decide on purchasing if its a huge cluster buy

[Anonymous No.17510449]

>>17510440
and involves at least the CEO and CFO

[Anonymous No.17510466]

>>17510440
Makes sense. If a large portion of the board buys then it's probably a sure thing. Any stocks your long on now?

[Anonymous No.17510469]

>>17510351
Not to any high level no.

My strategy for stocks is pretty simple I'll browse various stuff such as yours or I'll think about a sector im interested in and do some digging on google. eventually a few names start popping up, then I'll research the companies individually, research the management, do some basic TA (so that I don't feel like I'm buying at the top) and then buy if i think its something that will rise in value. i dont really short (i dont like the concept of it in the first place, but maybe ill consider it in the future). Some of my better picks were Goodfood (tse: food) and Palantir, that was a x4 twice. Made some nice returns on Chainlink as well in crypto. I know things probably won't go up forever but it's not like I'm risking a whole lot and I will find a way to make profits even if stocks end up dumping. I'm not totally 100% married to stocks, I feel like I could do a good job buying/selling stuff all kinds of items and making all kinds of bets, so stocks is just something that works for now. My goal is to hit 100k+ (currently at 40k from 3k initial investment) by end of 2022 and then I will re-evaluate. If we crash completely before then, I'm fine too, I only risked 3k and I still have my regular job. Once I have 100k+ and my current savings I will have enough to purchase an apartment of my own which is my current goal. Plus I will leave some capital aside to have to play with moving forward. That said if I see an easy x2+ somewhere I'll consider dumping even a large amount of my gains into that opportunity before using it on property. We'll see, I'm not too worried because my worst case scenario is still that I only lose 3k, but I think I'll be sitting at a reasonably good position by end of 2022 which is when I will re-evaluate what I'm going to do next.

[Anonymous No.17510490]

>>17510466
currently going long just on Nacco industries, there was a huge cluster buy with 23 directors including the president and CFO. Pretty confident It'll go up since its also at historic lows, and the cluster buy was fucking huge. Probably going long till 40$

[Anonymous No.17510494]

>>17503728
Based supportposter.

>>17503667
Education Sentimentale is the definitive novel of the mediocre youth vainly striving for significance, and eventually growing out of that need to leave an imprint on the world. It's the most "literally me" of all realist novels.

[Anonymous No.17510511]

>>17510490
>president and CFO
I meant president and CEO

[Anonymous No.17510526]

>>17508034
Yeah I started coding right before the pandemic which was after my previous album flopped hard. I'm still not completely content on giving up but I'm gonna stop being so autistic about making it in music so that if my efforts to make a scene and get local clout fail in the coming years I won't be so useless.

[Anonymous No.17510533]

>>17510526
what genre?

[Anonymous No.17510544]

>>17510469
Smart. I saw those tickers discussed a lot but didn't pull the trigger. I actually just hit 100k this week, thanks to some penny stocks hitting, regular contributions and a bit of help from my dad. Made sure to push as much of my scholarships into the TFSA but wish I started investing sooner.

My plan is just to stay in my PhD program so I can max out student loans (and grants which ends up being like 4 or 5 k) to invest in somewhat safer stuff and then use scholarships to live. Zero interest loans for the foreseeable future. Yes please. I'm not in Van or TO so the cost of living is pretty low thankfully. I'll be trying to diversify into crypto and more American since I think CAD is going to shit, but maybe the USD is too - ETH and AVAX seem pretty legit.

We are in a pretty insane market though. There has been a paradigm shift in investing but if Covid isn't resolved on the timeframe established things might start crumbling.

[Anonymous No.17510563]

>>17510533
Its industrial electronic. People tell me it sounds like death grips but I dont scream on records or have crazy zach hill drums.

[Anonymous No.17510575]

>>17510320
>>>/tv/

[Anonymous No.17510580]

>>17510490
>>17510511
Right now I have an overarching plan to find the 'upstream' providers for cannabis: companies that do lighting, hydroponics, HVAC, etc. Why bet on a retail company making it when all these grow-ops will have to be build out (if, of course, it's legalized). So far I've gotten into SRNA which does HVAC, but the others I've found are a bit pricy.

[Anonymous No.17510594]

>>17503985
>>17504002
Understandable, Pope is one of the most /lit/ titles there is.

[Anonymous No.17510606]

>>17510544
Congrats anon, I hope your plans come to fruition.

[Anonymous No.17510669]

>>17510606
Thanks. I'm pretty lucky.

You too

[Anonymous No.17510700]

>>17504379
You can still be a nasty tough fucker while being short. Just aim for a lighter type of fighter, like, I don't know, Pacquiao.

[Anonymous No.17510722]

at some point you realise that books, film, music, arts, etc. IS life. everything else is a distraction/shitty.

[Anonymous No.17510735]

>>17510722
even pussy?

[Anonymous No.17510736]

>>17510563
Death Grips and Mars Volta are my favourite bands so good shit anon

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17510768]

>>17510735
If you live for anyone of those things, you let it run you, define you. That isn’t a purpose in life, that subservience. Yes, even pussy. And I love me some pussy, but I don’t let it rule me.
Not even my own. I can get horny at inopportune times, I fight it down.

[Anonymous No.17510782]

>>17510768
Wait so you're a lesbian?

[Anonymous No.17510791]

>>17510768
>I can get horny at inopportune times, I fight it down.

[Anonymous No.17510806]

>>17510782
lmao she says so all the time

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17510843]

>>17510791
And I don’t need to post books about it all the damn time.

>>17510782
Of course. How new?

[Anonymous No.17510873]

>>17510843
"lesbian"
ywnbaw

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.17510878]

>>17510873
I will never be a widow because I’ll never marry

[Anonymous No.17511497]

>>17510843
post more

[Anonymous No.17511538]

>>17510873
She is actually a woman, she's just like 50 and single

[Anonymous No.17511551]

>>17511538
I was thinking 40. Must be weird being on here with a bunch of 20 year olds.

[Anonymous No.17511768]

>>17510544
>>17510469
Can either of you anons point me in a good starting direction for investing? I want to get into it but I feel literally retarded when I start reading terms like shorting, TA, long hold, margin, et cetera.
I have roughly $30k in cash just sitting around doing nothing and I'd love to do something with it.

[Anonymous No.17511889]

>>17511768
Are you US or Canada? Wondering if you have 'registered investment accounts' For general information googling works just fine and the first page is Investopedia which usually very helpful. Also, I'm sure there's some decent Youtube channels for information on what the terms mean.

As in the earlier posts suggests you kind have to trawl through /biz/, r/pennystocks (r/Canadianinvestors if your in canada) for stock tickers. You should be thinking both on the micro level: looking at the financials of a company, though in many cases doesn't matter from 2020 onwards. Then marco level: for example weed stocks crushing it right now due to speculation of legalization in the states - however looking at Canada you can realize that the financials never really panned out even with full legalization.

And generally try to do Due Diligence on a company which will be on the financial statements on their website i.e. their revenue vs. expenditure, etc. Admittedly, I'm pretty neglectful of this myself sometimes...

If you do have a registered account look at ETF's that track certain industries or even general markets. They're safe and even with Covid they'll net you money - better than just having it sit in the account. They usually have very little management fees. Mutual Funds are more active trading and are more difficult for in terms of taxation (constant trades) so I'd recommend that if you have an IRA or TFSA (Cad). A Fund under the ticker FID1298 has done well for me, even though their fee's are quite high (2.5%); it's gone up ~30% or so this last year.

I'll be monitoring the thread if you have questions. I'm not expert, but I've gotten lucky and haven't lost too much money jumping into dumb plays or following the hype.

I don't have a matched RRSP or anything so I need to invest and neither do many of my friends. Best to learn ASAP.

[Anonymous No.17511972]

>>17511889
Not that anon, but how much money should one have to get into investing?

[Anonymous No.17512492]

>>17511972
I think a lot of places need a minimum of 1,000 dollars investment. If you don't have much money then find a broker who will allow you to trade OTC. Those are extremely risky but generally are true penny stocks and even hundred's/thousands of pennies so you can really maximize an investment. 50,000 shares actually has the potential to do something vs. trying to buy a single Tesla stock. Personally, I lean more to the 0.10 - 1.50 range were they actually have legit business and financials. In Canada those are generally on the TSXV so they have to accord to certain standards for auditing - America doesn't have anything quite like an intermediate exchange between dumpster tier who knows what and the NASDAQ.

I think you do need to be a bit risker, but you can mitigate it. Look at the directors, financials, trends, and as the other anon mentioned if your in America look at SEC fillings openfilings(.)com. When the CEO is buying shares of a company it's probably a good sign and selling its bad.

[Anonymous No.17512522]

>>17512492
Thanks Anon. I've always thought one needed at least 3-4k. 1-2 sounds more possible than I thought.

[Anonymous No.17512938]

>>17512522
No worries. Try and find the line between being risky and safe. It's tough but honestly, like I said, start with the smaller caps and get an idea for it.

Sincerely, good luck Anon. I want everyone to get as much as they can from the market while it lasts.

[Anonymous No.17514734]

>>17508254
Thanks

[Anonymous No.17514746]

>>17503667
Job