Ian MacIntosh
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i was a former pro options/hedge fund trader. advice for my AI/ML friends who suddenly turned NVDA daytraders: you are not smarter than this market. for every deepseek there are 1000 other funds who have been in this game far longer than you sure it's -17% today, but this is in context of +900% in the last 2 years, with very high multiples built up. you can win individual battles, but you will lose this war if you dont have a longer term view. if you were going to buy for long term anyway, sure, great entry point. but you should be -more- excited when it dumps another -17% again, and -more- excited after that. In 2022 (not that long ago!) NVDA went from $33 to $11 in 9 months. I'm not saying that will happen now, i'm saying that there is no tutorial section in this game. you don't get training wheels, you don't get a refund for your first mistake. you're going in with the sharks and one of the most well documented reasons funds make money from individual traders is individuals overestimate their confidence with stocks because they know the product really well. and the reason it's down -17% today and not more is other people with far more money than you already agree with you. the stock only bottoms when -those- guys give up. not when you decide to swing in with your walloping $10,000.



















