Look up “roboadvisor” and put your money into one of those services.
It’s not quite as sexy as imagining some script making you millions over night. But it is essentially accomplishing what you’re looking for without too much maintenance on your part.
It somewhat depends on what kind of accounts you mean, and how you define hacking. It’s possible, but here’s the bigger explanation.
Someone who works at Facebook(just an example, could be any company) with the appropriate access could probably look up your account data without using your password or installing a virus. This could be done for legitimate support reasons, or be considered hacking if it’s done against policy.
Someone who hacks a company that you have an account with could potentially get access to the same information again without touching your password or computer. These big leaks happen all the time, they’re the ones you hear about on the news, though they usually don’t get full access to everything. They do not usually get the actual passwords for individual accounts, but could get information like name, birthday, credit card, activity, etc.
There’s also a form of hacking called a Man in the Middle attack, where someone will set up a compromised internet connection (usually wifi) that you then connect to thinking it’s fine. This system can then detect your device connecting to certain companies (again I will use facebook as an example) and will instead take the authentication piece your phone sends, and itself send the data to facebook, then get the authorization token from facebook, and send you a fake one. Then it sits in the middle and everything you do it passes on, so it looks like it’s working fine, but it can also send it’s own requests.
While a good mentality to have it is not practical.
Unless you audit every open source project you use, how do you know it is safe? Look up HeartBleed a disastrous security hole is the most popular open source security package that went unknown for years. And how do you know closed source is secure? Look at MS, Apple,Alassin all major closed source orgs that have released patches for critical vulnerabilities.
Your saving grace is unless you are working for a high profile company in a sensitive area there is little chance you will be directly targeted. The only time you get targeted is when bad actors do a scattergun approach and sees who responds.
A virus is specifically malware that automatically spreads to other devices. It’s similar to a worm. They tend to spread surreptitiously using vulnerabilities or design flaws. To me that’s quite different than installing a shady browser plugin, and imo it’s better to use the term malware to make it clear privacy violating browser extensions are something people unfortunately choose to install, unlike a virus.
The sorting algorithm changes are what I’ve been waiting for forever. A bit disappointed it’s taking so long. I basically never see many communities I’m subbed to. I miss having a local city community. It has me constantly thinking of just dealing with Reddit’s bullshit, cause if it’s not big news or memes, Lemmy ain’t cutting it.
The system is rigged against you. Any “gameable” aspect of the system which could be used to even the playing field is either regulated (ie you need a specific license) or billed in such as way to make it unprofitable (or at least transfer all the risk to you).
I can’t help you with stock market stuff unfortunately. To be honest, I wouldn’t want to have to deal with the headache of it all myself. If you’re still interested in writing a bot though a great way to learn is to pickup the programming language Python. There is a ton of free material out there for beginners. A good first project for when you start to feel comfortable is writing your own discord bot. If you’re interested I can try to find some links after work to share!
This is sort of how High Frequency Trading firms - they have a system of algorithms to quickly buy and sell shares for profit. But they can do it a financial scale which makes sense. Like another commenter said, doing it for pennies will just be a net loss after commission and fees.
You also need to get approval (forgive me I can’t recall the exact detail) for day trading - buying and selling of a stock within (I think) a 3 day period (or maybe intraday). Some platforms will allow you to do it a couple of times but then restrict you until a few days have passed before you can trade agaib
I picked up a high frequency trading server for free off a friend of mine and that machine is a total beast of a computer. So apparently it may take a lot of horsepower to perform at that level
There is a lot of analytics that happen with HFT also I would say there hardware would prioritise low latency parts to shave nanoseconds off any trade.
Yes, people do it. In fact, there are huge hedge funds who lease datacenter space right next to the exchange’s servers, pay for a special connection to the exchange that bypasses the Internet, and pounce on any price changes before you can, over the regular Internet, through a normal low-cost broker.
You can try to compete with them, I suppose. But what do you think happens to a little fish in a tank with sharks?
Yeah. They pay huge amounts of money to shave microseconds off of their latency to the exchange. Mere mortals should not even try to play the game by their rules
Precisely, you gotta beware of scammers. In fact, Ive developed a system for avoiding scams. Just follow my 18-week course at $12.99 per week and then you’ll be ready to start your training.
I’m not aware of any trading platform that lets you buy and sell that quickly for free. They would charge a commission, at which point you’d be losing money on each sale
I’m sole mod (not the original creator, but took over when they went awol) for the knitting community at !knitting, and I do my best to contribute a lot to the cross stitch & embroidery one at !lemmy_stitch too. This is coming from a history of running various niche online groups. So a few things I would advise:
First, just accept that some topics are too niche. They were too niche for Reddit as well, at one point. People got overexcited and wanted to mark their territory by setting up a ton of communities when they were new to Lemmy, but reality doesn’t work that way and a lot of those spaces just aren’t needed. We’d be better served combining posts from these into slightly more general combined communities, and perhaps leaving a sticky post in the tiny niche ones letting everyone know where to head to for that topic.
But if your topic is big enough to in theory get decent traction:
Be grateful for what users you do have. You said you sometimes get “few” replies, so make sure you’re getting to know those people and replying to them and continuing the conversation where appropriate. You don’t need a lot of users, you just need a few engaged ones to make for a nice community.
Recruit your friends. You’re a Chiefs fan, you probably know other Chiefs fans. Get them interested.
Drop your community link wherever its relevant. People don’t like having to put effort into finding new communities but if they just happen to come across mention of it, they’ll click. Obviously I’m not saying spam, but there are plenty of sports fans here and it’s bound to come up in conversation.
Crosspost. Any posts you make to a Chiefs community are probably also relevant to the wider NFL communities or maybe fantasy football players. And again this just gives more people the chance to stumble across the fact that you exist.
Ok these next couple are more involved, but they do work well!
Consider Mastodon. I have a craft-focused account there too, and if I have a question about knitting or cross stitch or whatever then the more answers I can get the better, right? So I use the fact that we can post from Mastodon, to a Lemmy community, combining the replies from both audiences in one thread. Example of what I mean here.
Create value. Could be by posting pillar content that’s actually useful (in your case could be some kind of statistical analysis, we all know the football nerds love it, but whatever will be long-term useful / interesting to your audience). Or it could be a regular community event or something ("predict the Chiefs wins/losses for the upcoming season and win something, etc etc).
Ask your existing users what they’d like to see from the community. Some things you try will hit and some will miss, but getting feedback is going to up your chances!
That’s everything off the top of my head and it’s already a wall of text so I’ll stop there. It is absolutely difficult to be a mod, it can be a lot of work to get to the point of just having an active community that doesn’t need your input to keep rolling. But if your community see you trying, I think that goes a long way. Hope some of this was helpful!
Happy to help! I know it sounds kind of weird, posting from another platform. But if you look at it less as “how can I make MY community with MY name on it the BEST so everyone will worship ME” and more “how can I actually bring people together over a shared topic” it makes a lot of sense :)
I do wish the integration was a bit better though. It’s got its quirks, to put it mildly!
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