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Yes cybersecurity is a growing sector. Microsoft got hacked recently FFS.
Darktrace is another one, which is British. Up 37% on the year, but more recently not good.
Wrote way back, that the big obvious facility for AI black hats is the internet. It's a brillliant vector and they have a superb tools to use - people's stupidity. "We were hit by ransomeware" is so common but pathetic. You arrange unconnected backups, duh. Jeepers even I could do that.
The most successful hacks are apparently those using sophisticated "phishing". A profile is built with widespread information gathering. The extra knowledge lends veracity to comms. AI can help with that, but mostly it's just complicated.
Heard one recently where "ethical", paid hackers, posed as rubbish collectors. Rubbish gave them company details and email addresses. Then they stuck a notice on a rear door, while collectig the rubbish, saying "Do not close this door". Someone left it open, so in they went. Can't actually remember what they did then but wifi snooping devices have been used for ages, so all quite low tech. Company had thought it was secure.
There are lots of niche sectors, and "super secret" plays, which I get bombarded with emails about. Lithium is one, Nuclear another, Musk's AI exploits another.
From my experience, doing that gets you a bunch of companies whose stocks don't do much, or lose money as the hype tails off. LIttle biotech companies is another group.
I find it much easier to simply ride the wave while it's rising, then "short" it when it collapses.
Gas and oil don't do all their changing in one day, nor bitcoin, but they shift a lot. Catalysts (news etc) will cause a quick change so use it. I'm far from the most successful but it works enough for me. Thos with more skill use small companies, where the growth can be times dozens in a day. That's very difficult to get right, I wouldn't go near it.
I saw a video recently which said just do 2 things. Good video, but it starts off listing the two groups of things, so about 40 things, but it's all in the beginning few minutes. I do almost of those, one way or another - mostly by seeing what others are saying.
It's all in the first 5 minutes, before he does his examples. :
First thing was other people's information, second part the mechanics. Yeah OK there's a bunch of "indicators" you can use which help a little bit, but you can usually see from the chart what the indicators are going to tell you anyway. For example, is a stock is rising but wiggles snd flutters every now and again, you don't know for sure where it'll go backwards, but a Bollinger band will show you what's within one standard devation of the line, which gives you a measure of how far it has actally gone off.
If gas is going up, you don't have to be a master technician to do ok.
So where's it hard? Spoiler alert, it's the psychology to carry it out. You have to turn on your inner psychopath.
If all you did in 2023 was buy a leveraged NVIDIA (smart chips company) stock (eg NVD3), the rise in the year was 2000%.
Thay would be a tip, then. Not clairvoyance
Here is is for this January alone (so far) It has doubled:
If it does that every month , that'll be £1000 turning into £4,000,000. All you have to do is wait.
If you want some work, watch it and sell for some of the red bits. Then you get x3 in a month and half a billion quid in a year.
Darktrace is another one, which is British. Up 37% on the year, but more recently not good.
Wrote way back, that the big obvious facility for AI black hats is the internet. It's a brillliant vector and they have a superb tools to use - people's stupidity. "We were hit by ransomeware" is so common but pathetic. You arrange unconnected backups, duh. Jeepers even I could do that.
The most successful hacks are apparently those using sophisticated "phishing". A profile is built with widespread information gathering. The extra knowledge lends veracity to comms. AI can help with that, but mostly it's just complicated.
Heard one recently where "ethical", paid hackers, posed as rubbish collectors. Rubbish gave them company details and email addresses. Then they stuck a notice on a rear door, while collectig the rubbish, saying "Do not close this door". Someone left it open, so in they went. Can't actually remember what they did then but wifi snooping devices have been used for ages, so all quite low tech. Company had thought it was secure.
There are lots of niche sectors, and "super secret" plays, which I get bombarded with emails about. Lithium is one, Nuclear another, Musk's AI exploits another.
From my experience, doing that gets you a bunch of companies whose stocks don't do much, or lose money as the hype tails off. LIttle biotech companies is another group.
I find it much easier to simply ride the wave while it's rising, then "short" it when it collapses.
Gas and oil don't do all their changing in one day, nor bitcoin, but they shift a lot. Catalysts (news etc) will cause a quick change so use it. I'm far from the most successful but it works enough for me. Thos with more skill use small companies, where the growth can be times dozens in a day. That's very difficult to get right, I wouldn't go near it.
I saw a video recently which said just do 2 things. Good video, but it starts off listing the two groups of things, so about 40 things, but it's all in the beginning few minutes. I do almost of those, one way or another - mostly by seeing what others are saying.
It's all in the first 5 minutes, before he does his examples. :
First thing was other people's information, second part the mechanics. Yeah OK there's a bunch of "indicators" you can use which help a little bit, but you can usually see from the chart what the indicators are going to tell you anyway. For example, is a stock is rising but wiggles snd flutters every now and again, you don't know for sure where it'll go backwards, but a Bollinger band will show you what's within one standard devation of the line, which gives you a measure of how far it has actally gone off.
If gas is going up, you don't have to be a master technician to do ok.
So where's it hard? Spoiler alert, it's the psychology to carry it out. You have to turn on your inner psychopath.
If all you did in 2023 was buy a leveraged NVIDIA (smart chips company) stock (eg NVD3), the rise in the year was 2000%.
Thay would be a tip, then. Not clairvoyance
Here is is for this January alone (so far) It has doubled:
If it does that every month , that'll be £1000 turning into £4,000,000. All you have to do is wait.
If you want some work, watch it and sell for some of the red bits. Then you get x3 in a month and half a billion quid in a year.
