It's crazy that a market as "sophisticated" as this can't (or won't) accurately track the amount of existing shares of a company
Two weeks after I turned 15 and got my first job, I started an E-trade account and brought stocks with tiny checks thinking that I was buying into a real system of wealth
The markets have been decent to me as a self-taught nikka with cursory knowledge of the markets
A product of teenage parents that came from nothing who watched Mad Money and read Donald Trump business books
A first generation college graduate who left high school and college at the height 2008 crisis and the recession
A business owner and scale investor
Fast forward to now, almost 15 years later @ 29 going on 30, I'm just now realizing how rigged this market is
Everyone "knew", but the thousands that I've spent from December-January until now has been the best education on how the markets really work
It's digusting but it's the tip of the iceberg
Education in the US stock market is dually the best and worst thing to happen to me
It's like finding out that Santa was real, but he's a meth'd up Cac who abuses the reindeers and dwarfs
Hedgies fukked up and got trapped tho and our dumbasses got lucky enough to get paid
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Dirty game let the can kicking continue until ….