If you think that sports betting web sites are rotten, then just do a google search on the  4 or 5 most popular stock trading web sites with the word "complaints" after the name of the stock trading company......... such as, do a google search like this:

Company ABC Complaints


If you are thinking about day trading or overnight trading stocks, you better read these complaints.....enough to make you sick.

if you have any illusions of "making a living" betting on sports, then I suggest you listen to the comments of this CEO in this video...and this situation is probably true of all sports books everywhere.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exiv47A_k04&t=50s&ab_channel=CaanBerryProTrader


This video is also very informative
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NSnFL8TbIU&t=15s&ab_channel=Unabated

Here is how you live when you have too much money......................and casino love it.


https://nypost.com/2021/06/02/high-rollers-slammed-for-posting-exorbitant-vegas-receipts-online/

About 99% of the people in any casino are tourists or visitors on vacation and are just  looking to have a good time.........see a show, play some slots or a table game, or eat at a buffet or a good restaurant...........they are not trying to "make a living"
or win money longterm by gambling.

They either don't know about 6-5 black jack or just don't care...they are just looking for a little fun before they have to go back home and get up at 6:00 AM and go to a job they don't like, working for a boss they also don't like, and work for a company where they can get laid off at any time, or worry if their husband or wife is cheating on them.
 
Casinos realize this and that's why we have 6-5 black jack and triple zero roulette

P,S. I'm just thinking about when 4 zero roulette will make its appearance ( 3 zero roulette is about -8.1 %...same as a slot machine  and 4 zero roulette is somewhere around  -11%.

Most casinos now pay 6-5 for a blackjack instead of 3-2 ....which means you are wasting your time playing........and if they suspect you are counting, they will either :

a. Ban you from the casino
b. Tell you can play any casino game except blackjack
c. Tell you that you can play blackjack but all your bets must be the same size as your first bet....which means you can not increase your bet size when the deck goes positive....so basically you are wasting your time and money by playing........unless you are some type of advantage player.....and advantage play is very difficult to find the right game and dealer.

Personally, if I was a casino owner or shift manager, I would never let the players at a baccarat table touch the cards or the shoe or anything else....because you might end up with this kind of unfortunate situation......


https://highstakesdb.com/news/high-stakes-reports/phil-ivey-and-the-20million-edge-sorting-saga-ends-a-timeline

Turning the picture on post #13 upside down.......seems like it would be more artistic.

I realize most of have read this story........but I could not resist posting again in case spme of you haven't read about it.....................has to be my favorite story of the decade.:


https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/world/video/brazil-bank-dead-man-tell-fst-041812aseg3-cnni-world-fast?dicbo=v2-gvEhShs&hpt=ob_blogfooterold

Another interesting crypto adventure:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-trader-110-million-manipulation-193526849.html

When I was young, I drove a Ford Pinto up to Montreal, Canada from New York City and then back down to New York City and then drove it cross country from New York City to Los Angeles.....about 4000 miles and slept in the car........and this was the Ford Pinto that exploded when the gas tank blew up if you were hit from behind..................also me and a buddy of mine  drove  from Oxford England across on a ferry to Holland and then drove to Belgium Germany Luxemburg Denmark .....put the car on another ferry and drove up to Stockholm Sweden and then back all the way to Oxford  England......about 2500 miles .......all this in an English 10 year old Anglia car where you could not get car parts or even a spare tire anywhere in Europe .........bought a tent and a small propane stove and  about 30 cans of food to cook on the stove and slept in the tent.....and this was before cell phones, the internet, personal computers etc etc....absolutely no way to contact anyone if the car broke down or something bad happened...............this is what young men do when you are 21 years old and do not have any functioning brain cells.

Just can't trust anyone when filthy lucre is involved


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7nyS3O1oA

Also, if you have a safety deposit box in a bank, and you think that everything in the box is ""safe"........I strongly suggest that you read the 3 or 4 page instructions which the bank gave you when you opened the box.

If you threw them away, I suggest you call your bank and have them mail it to you.

If you read it, you will probably see that if the bank receives instructions from any type of government agency,,,,,IRS......Secret Service .....Homeland Security.....etc etc......they can order the bank to lock your bank first and then the bank must notify you by mail that the box is locked one or two days after the box is locked........so you will not be able to open your box and remove any "interesting" items you may have stored in the box.

The only thing "safe" about a safety deposit bank box is that important documents such as insurance policies, social security cards, birth certificates, last will and testaments etc etc  will be safe in case your house burns down and all your important papers burn with your house.

There are probably some other posts regarding depositing or withdrawing $10,000 or more from your bank account,,......but if you missed those posts. the link below  may refresh your memory if you are thinking of depositing or withdrawing $10,000 or more from your bank account...... money obtained from gambling winnings or other financial transactions..............     

 I have a feeling that there is alot of money hidden in mattresses or buried in the back yard in the USA as well as the rest of the world.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/bank-watching-happens-deposit-too-110400404.html

Do you mean to tell me that the email I got from Nigeria is a scam.......which stated that a Nigerian Prince had been left $ 50,000,000 from his father in his will and that he needed  $40,000 to release the funds....and if I sent him the $ 40,000 he would give me         
$ 1,000,000 as a fee.

I was going to send the $ 40,000 tomorrow........now I am having second thoughts,

Here is another well known and one of the most widely read books on trading, investment, bubbles, psychology  etc etc etc

Written by "Edwin Lefevre" who was actually famed market trader Jessee Livermore from the early 1900's to the 1930's.


https://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-Stock-Operator-Edwin-Lef%C3%A8vre/dp/0471770884/ref=pd_bxgy_img_d_sccl_1/147-3645017-0530732?pd_rd_w=YXZ24&content-id=amzn1.sym.615d9037-0d71-4715-8421-5695fbf26656&pf_rd_p=615d9037-0d71-4715-8421-5695fbf26656&pf_rd_r=HZ6AS7DYWGEYPE7SZGJ8&pd_rd_wg=KlFpj&pd_rd_r=b715959f-6ea8-43e5-9cc1-5840ed1045d1&pd_rd_i=0471770884&psc=1