> Short term trading is the hardest fucking thing ever to learn

lol, calm down with glorifying gambling. You're just guessing, and sometimes the game of chance is in your favour, sometimes not. Returns are mostly Gaussian noise, and any faint kurtosis/skewness/fatness of tails/correlations is barely captured by most of the degenerates. On top of that, option greeks are rarely discussed here. I had to go out of my way to learn that stuff. The math is all nice and pretty, but in real time, unless you got dedicated programs linked to data coming from your broker (forget about directly interfacing with exchange), most people are just running on hunches. Even all that effort seems like a mockery, considering someone will get lucky with a YOLO and that post will get pinned to celebrate the survivorship bias.

Whether a bull or bear or kangaroo market, there's no value investing of any kind. Occasionally, some finance student or trader drops in, shares a dd (who knows out of kindness of their heart or just trying to pump the instrument). Rest of the time, we just like the thrill of throwing real-world money after things we barely comprehend.