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Stupid question:
I understand that stocks are stochastic,and truly it's all just gambling at the end of the day. I've been pissing around with a few of the memes here, and I notice a recurring pattern. Whenever I respond to speculation in rtg in a reactionary sense, I have exclusively bought high and got Shafted immediately after. If I didn't have an account with less than 200$ I would say shit is rigged, kek (joking, though I believe one could have that influence if you were a large enough portion of the volume).

Now, that being said, there's a few smaller energy stocks companies that I follow, and even some rtg memes that I notice have runs of what appear to be predictable (to the human eye. Which means nothing) very small swings over extended periods of time, say 1-3 weeks.

If one saw something like a $0.02 swing with 95% replicatibility over a period of like 2 weeks, why not set a limit buy on like, a standard deviation below the mean, then set a limit sell on the standard deviation above the mean. I understand shit can happen and that's still inherent risk but God damn, looking at a handful on stocks this looks literally too easy to do. The margins are much lower per share, but that should be expected with the (apparent?) Lower risk, right?

>>1939450
Yup. This is what I'm doing rn. Which also makes it fun to play with rtg memes.