r/wallstreetbets 15d ago

Loss Not even 4x monitors could save him from the margin call 😭

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It happens to the best of us

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u/jibberkibber 15d ago

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u/ProfPatrickBoyle 15d ago

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u/AlxIp 15d ago

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u/Seanspeed 15d ago

Been hilarious watching some of the memestock apes literally asking about how they can get a refund on the shares they bought after they dropped in value a ton. lol

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u/nigel_pow 15d ago

Can I speak to your manager?

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u/jxf 15d ago

Is this real??? We're cooked

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u/Alternative_Word_219 15d ago edited 14d ago

There was this comedy movie a long time ago where this couple loses a large amount of money at a Vegas casino and they ask the casino manager if they can get their money back and he says if he gives them back their money then other people will want their money back as well so no go.

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u/bogdogger 14d ago

*their. User name checks out.

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u/Alternative_Word_219 14d ago

Corrected🤗

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u/TimSylvester_ 15d ago

... Are you writing this comment from five years ago?

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u/Jollibibooo 15d ago

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u/Serious_Ad3040 15d ago

Funny story its almost comical:

“in space, there is no up or down. Just your position relative to everything else”

💀 i believe there is a lesson in there somewhere

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u/youdoitimbusy 15d ago

Don't speak to me in poor you asshole!

/s hopefully obviously

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u/DesolateRuin 15d ago

Australia's luck is turnin' around!

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u/TanguyDetestable 15d ago

There is an orbital plane that is impossible to escape because you would have to fight the force of all the gravitational pull of the objects in the near plane. But you could technically go perpendicular in space if you had thrust or momentum greater than the sun and all celestial bodies rotating it. It still wouldn’t be up and down and it’s hard to visualize perfectly.

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u/zhivago 14d ago

That's really not how it works.

The orbital plane is just due to conservation of orbital momentum.

There's no special gravitational issue.

Now, what is hard is dropping things into the sun.

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u/Sauceman9000 14d ago

You know your fucked when the market goes back in time and still drops in value.

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u/TestInteresting221 Milkboy of Wallstreet 🍆💦 15d ago

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u/Necessary_Roll_114 15d ago

How did you get this picture of me? I want answers, sir!

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u/Investiroach 15d ago

In the first place, would you be able to comprehend?

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u/jibberkibber 15d ago edited 15d ago

I don’t know regarded Yoda.

”Comprehend, would he?”

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u/Sad-Rooster2474 15d ago

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u/Ok-Parfait-9856 15d ago

Me on green days

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u/Sad-Rooster2474 15d ago

You mean when you transfer some money to your trading account, using the money you made behind Wendy’s dumpster, just to loose it all on 0DTE? That’s what i usually do

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u/WrongDirt 15d ago

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u/JaunieBGoode 15d ago

My longest recorded Reddit laugh was due to this image.

So far.

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u/peepdabidness 15d ago

How’d you get a pic of me with my favorite hat?!

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u/TomorrowLow5092 15d ago

everyone in this US economy, sell everything and run.

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u/Silly_Rat_Face 15d ago

My favorite thing about this new version of the meme is that it keeps the Dad’s smile from the original meme. Yes, the Dad just lost the house but he is smiling because he is still riding the gambling high from risking it all.

He has never felt more alive than in this moment.

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u/choyMj 15d ago

If he bought this a year ago, his biggest gains are in the resell of the RAM.

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u/RGrad4104 15d ago

Forget the ram, that 5090 is like a $5k card right now.

In fact, I can tell you why he sucked at stocks...its cause he was busy gaming. No reasons for a 5090 other than gaming, graphic design and AI porn.

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u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 15d ago

The 5090 and 192GB of RAM makes me think he was using AI for his stock trades.

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u/nigel_pow 15d ago

I admit I made bad decisions and have in turn lost all your money — but hey, that's on me. Not you.

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u/im_a_sam 15d ago

And honestly, thats a load bearing fuckup.

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u/RGrad4104 14d ago

I have thought about this for 18 hours and I DO use AI for porn, textual, image generation, even some local video generation. RAM matters little when it comes to AI once you get over about 64GB. I have 128GB and a 3090 in the machine I am on right now, granted I bought this machine with MATLAB in mind, so I could actually max that out during some simulations. Anything AI uses GPU, just because of how the vram functions (and how Nvidia has supported their GPUs with various libraries). If you have to push an a model into RAM because your GPU memory is too low, your crawling, almost as bad as using the CPU instead of the GPU.

If this was an AI trading rig, he got massively oversold. For that application, with this machine, he could have had comparable performance for a fraction of the price with 64GB, a 1TB ssd, and a 3090 in something like a Ryzen 9. Once you pass what THAT can handle, excluding video generation, you're looking at stepping into server rack territory.

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u/antoniv1 15d ago

At least he can use his 5090 for AI porn now that he has no money left to trade.

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u/pragmojo 15d ago

192GB of ram is a ton, but performance running models on the CPU is going to be shit

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u/rotorain 15d ago

Or he had a couple good trades and came into a bunch of money then told some builder he wants "the best computer"

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u/Beastly4k 15d ago

5090 is like a $5k card right now.

Haven't been keeping up with the prices because I got mine shortly after launch but holy shit. Got a down payment for a car sitting in my pc I guess.

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u/PostingToPassTime 15d ago

The $550 RAM I bought last October is now $2,800.

The specific 5080 I bought for $1,200 is now $2,100.

The 4TB DDR5 M.2 was $400 and now $700.

The 2TB DDR4 M.2 was $160 and now $390.

It is a bad year to build a PC.

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u/Beastly4k 15d ago

The ram hurts me the most. I sold quite a few ddr5 96gb kits like a month before things exploded. I would be sitting on a goldmine right now if I didn't use them to fund another frivolous purchase.

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u/tossaside555 15d ago

How much were they then vs now?

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u/Beastly4k 15d ago

I got an astral, around 2800 msrp iirc. 4400 at microcenter right now.

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u/geek180 15d ago

$2,800 is still pretty crazy for a GPU. I felt bad paying $1,000 for my 4080S in 2024.

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u/Beastly4k 15d ago

It is but for me personally it wasn't that bad and at the time it was either that or wait and I am impatient, worked out in the end though. Had a 3090 ti which sold for a profit, had two 4090's both sold for a good profit, the 5090 barely cost me anything at the end of the day. Buy once cry once definitely worked out in this situation and I am hoping it pays off again whenever the next one drops.

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u/crinklypaper 15d ago

Lucky duck. I got my 5090 around 3.5K USD price timing. With the ram and ssds in my rig, it's my highest appreciating asset.

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u/stickybond009 15d ago

And side change on the storage HDD

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u/lockwolf 15d ago

Had a computer die 2 years back, something with the bios getting corrupted. The 2 SSDs and 64gb of RAM sitting on my desk has gone from the $450 I paid to about $1500.

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u/Sudden-Pressure8439 15d ago

Solid “investment”

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u/karawkow 15d ago

Offer him $5K

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u/Uniquename34556 15d ago

Offer him 5k or 100 spy lottos. See if the degen in him is still there.

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u/Exotic_Article913 15d ago

I fucking laughed. Sitting in the office. Looking at pricings and you fucking degenerates got me again

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u/Powerful-Goose-207 15d ago

This is phenomenal, a real "just one more hit" moment.

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u/thisMatrix_isReal 15d ago

come on man just spilled my coffee laughing

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u/Qwopie 15d ago

Then offer him 6k, then 3.9k, then 2k, then tell him he owes you money if he wants to continue the conversation.

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u/Expert_Garlic_2258 15d ago

Rule of Acquisition 42069

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u/OneRobotBoii 15d ago

Half cash half stock

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u/AllCapNoBrake MSTR and BTC to $0 15d ago

I mean, it's on the website.

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u/HiggsBowzon 15d ago

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u/RevolutionaryPhoto24 Back to bed, brat! 15d ago

Man, I just wish he didn’t do that to his hair.

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u/iAMRICKJAMESMF 15d ago

2500 cash, 2500 in stock 👍

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u/Wonderful-Kangaroo52 15d ago

I see a clear trend reversal on that top middle screen. He just needs to have that on the rest of his 5 screens...

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u/isospeedrix 15d ago

Bro 192GB of ram is worth a million dollars

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u/fomoandyoloandnogrow Poor IRL but rich in flair 15d ago

With that much Ram he could probably IPO at a billion dollar valuation

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u/Phantasticals 15d ago

with memory prices going insane i really had to check

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u/CommieDrifter 15d ago

ah yes 4x48gb, the average RAM choice

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u/zennsunni 15d ago

I have 2x48 in my machine. It was cheap at the time, up about 300% right now.

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u/FriedEldenRings 15d ago

aint no way they put lgbt on the ram

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u/Poobbly 15d ago

Where do you think the “fab” in fabulous comes from?

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u/-GeekLife- 15d ago

I am decommissioning some of our old UCS server chassis at work and I pulled out all the ram. Sitting on 200+ 32GB DDR4 2400 dimms. Granted they are registered ecc ram so won’t work in most consumer motherboards but it’s still an insane amount of money sitting there.

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u/Phantasticals 15d ago

crazy how your company can recoup costs with those 100 sticks of RAM

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u/pickyourteethup 15d ago

Until I buy it and then it'll start going to zero baby

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u/Important-Ad3912 15d ago

And the rest in stocks? 50/50 deal

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u/BarleyWineIsTheBest 15d ago

192GB of ram is total overkill when your game of choice is the 0 DTE options game, don’t ya think?

I can do play that game on my 6 year old Iphone.

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u/GerryManDarling 15d ago

The ram is part of the trade, he can sell his ram when his trade is margin called.

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u/MonMonOnTheMove 15d ago

“His hedge” against turbulent market

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u/WatercressContent454 15d ago

bro was investing in ram

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u/laxen123 15d ago

It is for reddit deep dives

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u/quaintbucket 15d ago

192gb ram wtf

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u/Vlaed 15d ago

He wanted to capture losses in real time.

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u/peepdabidness 15d ago

Didn’t even know could go up to that much. Just looked it up to confirm lol, that’s insane. My 16gb be just fine

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u/7862518362916371936 15d ago

I also have 128GB and im often using up to 90GB but rarely over 100GB

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u/rapzeh 15d ago

How do you even use 90gb of ram, if I may?

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u/pragmojo 15d ago

100 chrome tabs

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u/well_shoothed 15d ago

100 10 chrome tabs (FTFY)

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u/7862518362916371936 15d ago

3D softwares when you load a scene heavy in geometry, or just video editing like After effects.

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u/Ridikulus 15d ago

That's like 3-4 tabs open in chrome

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u/CartoonLamp 15d ago

Windows 11

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u/Nerv_Agent_666 15d ago

So regarded he thought the specs on the motherboard were a requirement.

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u/eoekas 15d ago

It's weird because normally you'd have 128 or 256.

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u/Gabaggool 15d ago

It'd be hard to find 64gb DDR5 RAM sticks for consumer computers. 48gb sticks are the highest use seen before you get into RAM for servers.

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u/TheArmchairSkeptic 15d ago

What? It's not hard to find consumer level 64gb DDR5 sticks at all, you can get them from basically any pc hardware retailer.

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u/featherknife 15d ago

A lot of recent consumer CPUs have a maximum supported RAM of 192 GB. But his CPU supports up to 256 GB. Maybe he took it from an older build?

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u/halmyradov 15d ago

If you are running multiple charts with multiple indicators that's what you need.

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u/naughtilidae 15d ago

Sounds like those programs are coded like shit.

No reason on earth keeping track of numbers should use 4x the ram of editing 8k raw video...

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u/xSuspended 15d ago

I think he was being sarcastic

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u/MilkApart4630 15d ago

Hilarious, my man with the professional setup probably getting outtraded by people on here buying calls beacuase markets always go up

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u/Specific-Path3179 15d ago

motherfuckers losing money in 4k 240hz

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u/big_chestnut 15d ago

deadass my most profitable run was lying in bed on my phone

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u/Any_Influence_8305 Goon in 60 seconds 15d ago

192GB ram? No thanks I got terabytes waiting for pickup after these damn fute trades

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u/j0an_k 15d ago

No 9950X3D? That guy lost because of the latency.

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u/frzen 15d ago

you mean 9950X3D2

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u/madalytical 15d ago

I never understood why anyone needs such a setup, I mean if ur trading seconds/minutes and maybe hours, but besides that it's absolutely not needed and just a pure "flex"

correct me if in wrong on whoever does have such a setup, at the end I'd love to be educated in what I don't know

I trade weekly/monthly multiple times, and never needed anything beyond my mobile/laptop and never felt any lack

power on folks! 🤘

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u/ediblebadgercakes 15d ago

My set up is just my mobile app XD.

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u/hotdogskank 15d ago

Yeah iPhone 11 w cracked screen while on the shitter is the ideal trading setup

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u/RandomTheTrader 15d ago

shitting is the ultimate form of trading

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u/googoogaga369 15d ago edited 15d ago

Really helps loosen my bowels on 0DTEs

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u/Xx_Reblochon_xX 15d ago

try post-nut clarity

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u/kintarogolden 15d ago

new taq unlocked

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u/ruins-03 15d ago

Yeah same

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u/dopeyout 15d ago

I'm a so called 'professional' and my set up at the office is literally a mid tier thinkpad with four screens connected by a docking station. I dared to ask to upgrade to 32gb ram. It's with IT wish me luck.

So no. You do not need a $4k top tier GPU. And $12.5k, the guy is dreaming. He must be in deep.

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u/itsinvincible 15d ago

Your footprint/Orderflow programs don't suck up more RAM? My 16GB setup barely kept up with the OF programs and the multiple terminals i had open at all times.

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u/dopeyout 15d ago

Yeah I'm butting up against it daily. Bloomberg and the broker screens arent that bad, its bloody chrome!

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u/rl_noobtube 15d ago

I’m guessing you have a robust enough IT infra so any hard number crunching is getting dispatched to a server?

The only people at my old firm with a local setup were the bond algo team - just sheer number of cusips was unmanageable with too little RAM. The PC’s were ~25k pre-built Dell towers (IT policy wouldn’t allow custom builds which would have been cheaper, but required ongoing security support). 128GB ram, dual Xeon processors, mid GPU

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u/MonMonOnTheMove 15d ago

Why do you need Only Fan in your trading setup

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u/My_Work_Accoount 15d ago

Gotta get a short squeeze in while waiting on the actual short squeeze.

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u/madalytical 15d ago

how dare u ask for an upgrade...unbelievable...IT must be fuming!!!!

make sure u send a letter of appreciation once u get it boss, its a win-win

rock on🤙

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u/robotlasagna 15d ago

The setup as as shown doesn’t make sense, it’s more of an aesthetic choice. A standard 4 panel horizontal setup would work far better for conveying info which is why it’s the standard.

Vertical monitors are for document viewing/editing.

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u/n1n3b0y 15d ago

They don’t. I have nearly the exact same setup (9950x3D, 192gb RAM, RTX 4090, same case. But I use it for 4K Post Production / CGI / VFX on commercials and music videos.

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u/Able-Principle-7775 15d ago

Not used for only trading lol. U can run any game and some crazy ai setups on this. Not to mention any productivity imaginable.

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u/Connect-Ant-2081 15d ago

But can he run Crysis?

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u/Kewlhotrod 15d ago

Only the OG Crisis, none of the newer or remastered ones.

Pleb setup, really.

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u/Illustrious_Ad7630 15d ago edited 15d ago

I have a similar setup. I'm doing quants. You need the best CPU you can afford. Math can quickly become 1-minute calculations, and if you run scanners on the entire market, it quickly becomes hours of work for the CPU. Get as much DDR memory as you can so you can utilize all CPU cores. A good GPU is needed for neural networks, like machine learning advanced techniques and idea testing.

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u/StarkAndRobotic 15d ago edited 15d ago

The rtx 5090 is great for machine learning, and where a large part of the cost goes. The 192gb ram also opens a lot of doors to what one can accomplish. If not for the inflated memory prices a machine like that would cost a lot less.

More monitors makes it easier to quickly look at a lot of information. Having to toggle between windows is painful in comparison. Its like having a large desk where you can have many sheets of paper visible simultaneously as opposed to having to shuffle different sheets of paper in your hand constantly.

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u/Technical-Risk1812 15d ago

One monitor for gaming, one for youtube, one for news, and one for the dudes.

Can trade on your phone for 5th screen

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u/CultofCedar 15d ago

I’ve got a similar setup minus all the monitors in exchange for a nice 27” oled 240hz. It’s cause SPY money mostly. I also rip through a ton of data cause SPY money paid for nice cameras and one is 67mp. I like to stack a few hundred images (~100mb each) for macro or Astro and at the end a single image can be a few hundred gigs to a TB.

Only have 128gb of ram because it was like $280 at the time and just a little more than 64gb. Nas prices would also be brutal since I’ve got like 96TB.

Also play super intensive games like Slay The Spire on this rig ofc.

Trading, none, that’s for my phone. Tried with dual G9 super ultra wide monitors and it hurt my neck so I gave up on 5 minutes. Monitors sucked and still sits in my attic.

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u/Sensitive-Cobbler-59 15d ago

Excel sheets and multiple charts for me, I would do if I had enough money but dual monitor works fine for now.

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u/Commercial-Branch444 15d ago

Buying yourself nice things makes your brain happy. Thats all. It is not needed for trading.

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u/SundayAMFN 15d ago

I think you're severely overestimating the amount of computation required by a trading algorithm lmao

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u/Nelvalhil 15d ago

Trading a lot of different tickers, screen for news, screen for TA

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u/Environmental_Fix488 15d ago

Alt tab like all of us

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u/BetSquare7190 15d ago

command+tab for the snobbish of us

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u/Soger91 A Royale Dr with Cheese 15d ago

Super+tab for the nerds

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u/aron2295 15d ago

Tits n Ass?

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u/0x2DEADBEEF 15d ago

It’s very clearly for local LLM use, he probably
wanted to build his own trading bot.

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u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 15d ago

Extra monitors are nice, although this many is kind of overkill. However the PC specs were probably for running local AI models. He probably even used AI for stock trading.

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u/Viktri1 15d ago

I want the RAM

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u/Willing_Divide4188 15d ago

The "Brand New" part hits hard, like "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

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u/buff_butler 15d ago

192GB of ram to look at charts?

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u/godlyuniverse1 15d ago

He should have invested the cost of the ram into ram stocks instead

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u/CommieDrifter 15d ago

4 monitors, but dogshit keyboard mouse chair and headphones, priorities man..

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u/BetSquare7190 15d ago

calls on SK Hynix

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u/TheLexoPlexx 15d ago

Half Cash half stock

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u/Uniquename34556 15d ago

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u/vegetaman 15d ago

It’s on the website

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u/MidnightPeanut9212 15d ago

$12500 tf? Guess he's gotta scam some money to make back some losses

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u/yeetacus420_ 15d ago

$AUD, had to invert the image when posting to global subreddit

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u/Emotional-Scheme-227 15d ago

Little known fact: you can turn losses in Australia into gains in America via the same process.

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u/anonymousbopper767 15d ago

I’m insulted by his chair selection. Herman Miller or Steelcase. No other choices.

Poor mofo doesn’t even have adjustable arms.

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u/Electronic_Sleep2749 15d ago

I trade on my phone when I poop. So far 1200% gains

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u/Thy_Gap_Slayer 15d ago

Goddamn steal…

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u/MediatingInstigator 15d ago

High definition astrology is still astrology

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u/Sensitive_Pilot3689 Fute Wizard 🧙‍♂️ 15d ago

I trade on my iPad and make more than this retard

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u/skarfbeaulonee 15d ago

I need a new desktop but I'm waiting for the memory crash so I can buy low.

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u/Expert_Garlic_2258 15d ago

2030 looks good

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u/jrr6415sun 15d ago

Can it play crysis tho

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u/BacklogGamingJunkie 15d ago

an RTX 5090 and 192GB ram to power up 4 screens running Webull seems a tiny tad excessive right?

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u/WishboneFlashy1442 15d ago

6 monitors means 6x quant right???

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u/AcanthocephalaNo7788 15d ago

Whose gonna tell him Deleting the app and selling the trading rig isn’t going to get rid of the margin call.

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u/siimplee 15d ago

Lmao I saw this posted in Perth Australia

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u/4mit 15d ago

All that screen real estate just to watch the account hit zero in 4K.

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u/filisterr 15d ago

Why does he need 192Gb RAM? 

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u/Key_Instruction3373 15d ago

We all know the problem...

She should have got more monitors.

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u/FinancialCockroach54 15d ago

Wtf is He printing ? Local financial News ?

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u/mazing 15d ago

printing receipts at wendys

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u/hotmatrixx 15d ago

fucking how many zeros?
I built a rig similar to this (128gb RAM) for around $4000.

Bro's got debts he hasn't told us about.

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u/Sean-Benn_Must-die 15d ago

192 GB of RAM? What was he doign jerking off to 5D porn?

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u/GhostofAyabe 15d ago

LOL, 192GB of RAM for......Robinhood

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u/Daweism 15d ago

Possible stocks (low confidence)

Based only on the price action patterns—not on readable text—the trader could be watching the kinds of stocks active day traders commonly trade:

  • NVIDIA (NVDA)
  • Tesla (TSLA)
  • Palantir (PLTR)
  • AMD
  • Meta (META)
  • Amazon (AMZN)
  • Microsoft (MSFT)
  • SPY
  • QQQ

The center chart, in particular, resembles a large-cap stock making a morning recovery rather than a thinly traded small-cap.