I Play with Money

I am an American, capitalist man playing with penny stocks and entering into other ventures. This blog chronicles my personal progress. My ventures are based purely on my speculation and my impulses. Only a fool would take anything they read here as sound financial advice, or even mediocre financial advice. I am not responsible for what you do with your money.

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What's up with the bot? That end of the month timeline came and went like the aclp merger... it didnt

Life happened. I got super busy, then had two surgeries, then changed jobs.

I moved coding to R. I'm currently taking some Coursera courses in R to master R. 

I wrote the bit of the bot that handles all of the API stuff. I can pull data and place buy/sell orders. I coded a few technical indicators.

Bot will be done whenever it's done at this point. Feel free to unfollow me, if I'm cluttering up your follow list.

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I bought $4500 worth of MSFT

I was just looking for a safe place to hold my money for a bit. MSFT is a save play, opposed to my usual triple penny lottery picks.

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Bot Progress

Finished the Encog book. Downloaded a dataset from TD Ameritrade, working on structuring and training the network now. 

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[trash-gargoyle]

Except that this isn’t what capitalism is about at all…?

[meiamthefrenchcanadian-deactiva]

I dare you to count to the famines and the death tolls between capital liberal countries and socialist regimes

OOPS EVEN HITLER DIDNT KILL AS MANY PEOPLE AS STALIN forget that liberal bit I just mentioned and please tell me that capitalism is more likely to leave you hungry than socialism thanks

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Stalin is not a good example of a model socialist leader, nor is Hitler a good example of a model capitalist one.

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Hitler wasn’t a Capitalist. He was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. 

In 1927 he said “We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”.

Hitler was not a Capitalist. He was a Socialist.

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JUST BECAUSE HILLARY IS A WOMAN DOES NOT MEAN THAT SHE SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY ALL WOMEN. HILLARY SHOULD BE STOPPED BECAUSE SHE IS A LYING BITCH. it’s v frustrating when the media encourages women to support hillary for the sole purpose that she is a woman. males and females alike should support candidates based on their platforms and ideas, not their gender, skin color or background.

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This is what I don't get about Socialists. Who gives a shit about equality, if everyone is just equally impoverished and equally starving?

How is that better than most people being fine, with a small number being impoverished and a small number being rich? Why is everyone being impoverished the preferred outcome for them?

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Bot update

I decided to use Encog over Neuroph after seeing some bench marking done on the two which showed that Encog is about 10x faster. I downloaded the jars and stuffed them into the bot's classpath so they're ready to use.

Now, I'm reading up on Encog 3. I'm pretty familiar with Neural networks, so it'll just take me a while to read up on this specific framework, then I'll begin structuring the network

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This is just dumb. All capitalism is, is private ownership of the means of production.

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Hey! I'm leaving the country for a few years to volunteer, I'm looking to try and make a little money via investing instead of just just letting my money sit in a banks savings account while I'm away. Lol I'm aware you are no Suze Orman but from your experience would you recommend me dabbling in stock investment with little experience or familiarity with the stock market? That robinhood site perhaps?

Not even a little bit. If you're new to investing, I'd suggest playing around with it to learn, but only with money you could afford see turn to nothing if you screw up.

Investing (especially my style of it) is like gambling. If you wouldn't gamble with that money, you shouldn't invest it either.

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Bot Update

The bot will tweet it's actions in real time to @PennyStocksBot. I coded up the twitter bit today. Next, I'll try to tackle the Neuroph part.

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The API Wrapper is done!

I'm now starting to build the bot. What should it evaluate stocks on?

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The Battle Raged for a Billion Years

I'm not dead. I'm still working on getting my wrapper around the TD Ameritrade API finished. 

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API Adventures #1

I've begun writing a Java wrapper around the Ameritrade API. I might be wasting my time, because if Robinhood lets me in, I'm going to bail on Ameritrade for those sweet, sweet $0 trades.

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Name your 3 penny stocks that you would buy today and keep (some shares) at least a year.

There are no penny stocks that I'd hold for a year. Penny stocks should be strictly considered short term bets in my opinion.

[mylittlerewolution]

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I'm honestly not sure if you're trolling, or just stupid.

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Oneness

Today’s Meme comes from the Earth. We Are One. facebook page. I scrolled through their posts today and agreed with a lot of the sentiments. However, I find it ironic that when it comes to economic theory, We Are One criticizes the economic system that contains the most free and...

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Perfect.