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Brother. No.If all frens and incels team up and invest their money on the samethin, wouldn't we be a market might also ?
AFAIK the 3 largest entities are AQR Capital Management, Bridgewater Associates and Apple (Asset Management Branch). They have the most private money out of any entity in the world. Apple have a third of their entire marketcap in CASH, which is just crazy. 250-300B$ at all times. AQR and Bridgewater Associates have over 150B$ EACH in liquid assets. They're just the biggest private hedge funds. ie: Not using public money. Vanguard and Blackrock are the 2 biggest financial institutions with 5.3T$ (Vanguard as of 30th Sep 2018) and 6.52T$ (Blackrock as of 01 Jan 2019) in assets under management. That's just the top 2 institutions. There's like 10 institutions with over 1 trillion USD in AUM; and even at that, that's just the top 10 financial institutions.
So basically. No, we can't do shit by putting everyone's money together. You can as a retail trader study institutional biases and heuristics and trade on advanced information in a way to exploit retail traders in a market saturated with dumb money. ie: attempt to always invest in the direction of smart money. But eventually you won't be able to keep optimal risk/reward and you'll slip up while some HFT algorithm vacuum sucks your money from your account as you attempt to "day trade against them". Try to trade larger timeframes? You'll still be out smarted and outfunded. Institutions exploit all other traders and make money. If there weren't idiots chasing the stock market pipe dream, it'd be a very static scenario, with only hedge funds and banks being participants. They don't have a good time taking from each other. They take from every hopeful who thinks they can consistently make money playing the stock market. Dumb money v Smart money.
I kept adding to my position as the trade moved against me. I was an idiot. Yeah I was leveraged but I still lost a lot of real money. Strengthening a position as it moves with momentum in the opposite direction is COPE. I've learned from it ;(How the fuck do you lose that much in one trade? Let me guess, it was using something highly leveraged like forex, futures or options. Didn't you have a stop loss or a better exit strategy?
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