All you need to do is gain 1% a day in the stock market. If you start with $1000, and gain 1% every weekday, after 1 year you will have:
$13,291
After 2 years:
$178,417
After 3 years:
$2,395,048
After 4 years:
$32,150,879
After 5 years:
$431,590,038
After 6 years:
$5,793,619,508
You can be a millionaire in under 3 years, and a billionaire in under 6!
All you have to do is gain 1% a day......
Gaining 1% a day in stocks sure is hard, isn't it? What this also means is that the difference in skill between the best stock trader in the world and random guessing is a lot less than 1% a day. A lot less.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
3 Days Until Spring Break
And I have some time to relax today for what feels like the first time in forever.
There's been 3 big things causing me stress this semester: school, finding a job, and creating a research project/finding a mentor for the summer. For me, I've discovered stress is not really linked to how much work there is to be done, but rather to the number of different things I have to do. Fortunately, the third item on the list is resolved (at least for now) as of today, because I showed my mentor my project idea today, and things are on track. Still looking for a job, especially for the summer. Hopefully the place I interviewed at yesterday will offer me a position tomorrow, but if not, then at least I have gained some confidence now that I've had 2 interviews.
That, and a ton of schoolwork, is more or less what my life has been since February 16. It's become somewhat of a regular weekly cycle, unlike any of my previous semesters:
Sunday: Logic homework, starting Math Econ homework, catching up on other stuff.
Monday: Classes most of the day, then Math Econ homework at night. I usually finish this before midnight. Maybe work on Physics homework.
Tuesday: Sleep in pretty late (and get almost nothing done in the morning), Math Econ class, then volunteering at a bookstore. Maybe work on Physics homework.
Wednesday: Classes, then small group for fellowship, then Go Club, then Physics lab report, typically until 2-3 in the morning.
Thursday: Physics Lab and Math Econ, then I usually try to, but fail miserably at, getting work done in the afternoon. Then presidential honors scholars meeting sometimes, and then large group fellowship. Then Stats homework until 3 in the morning.
Friday: One class, then weekend! Which I use to catch up on job applications/research ideas/etc.
Saturday: Same as Friday afternoon/evening, except I am a lot more productive, as I usually just relax on Fridays.
Yeah, I put Sunday as the start of the week there, because that's how the cycle feels to me these days. My "weekend" is Friday afternoon to Saturday night.
I have a lot more to say, but not much time to say it tonight, so perhaps I'll leave that to another day. Back to reading the Wheel of Time series.
There's been 3 big things causing me stress this semester: school, finding a job, and creating a research project/finding a mentor for the summer. For me, I've discovered stress is not really linked to how much work there is to be done, but rather to the number of different things I have to do. Fortunately, the third item on the list is resolved (at least for now) as of today, because I showed my mentor my project idea today, and things are on track. Still looking for a job, especially for the summer. Hopefully the place I interviewed at yesterday will offer me a position tomorrow, but if not, then at least I have gained some confidence now that I've had 2 interviews.
That, and a ton of schoolwork, is more or less what my life has been since February 16. It's become somewhat of a regular weekly cycle, unlike any of my previous semesters:
Sunday: Logic homework, starting Math Econ homework, catching up on other stuff.
Monday: Classes most of the day, then Math Econ homework at night. I usually finish this before midnight. Maybe work on Physics homework.
Tuesday: Sleep in pretty late (and get almost nothing done in the morning), Math Econ class, then volunteering at a bookstore. Maybe work on Physics homework.
Wednesday: Classes, then small group for fellowship, then Go Club, then Physics lab report, typically until 2-3 in the morning.
Thursday: Physics Lab and Math Econ, then I usually try to, but fail miserably at, getting work done in the afternoon. Then presidential honors scholars meeting sometimes, and then large group fellowship. Then Stats homework until 3 in the morning.
Friday: One class, then weekend! Which I use to catch up on job applications/research ideas/etc.
Saturday: Same as Friday afternoon/evening, except I am a lot more productive, as I usually just relax on Fridays.
Yeah, I put Sunday as the start of the week there, because that's how the cycle feels to me these days. My "weekend" is Friday afternoon to Saturday night.
I have a lot more to say, but not much time to say it tonight, so perhaps I'll leave that to another day. Back to reading the Wheel of Time series.
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