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iQIYI, Inc.
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Warren Buffett said it best when he said, "temperament and emotional discipline matter far more than raw intelligence or high IQ when it comes to successful investing." Now trading isn't investing, but you can switch them out for the sake of the discussion.
A lot of high IQ and intelligent people fail at trading because they're used to being the smartest people in the room and succeeding at everything they do. However, the market is made of many participants. People are irrational so that means the market can be irrational. It's prone to fear and greed. Someone can tell you what the market should be doing, and they can be right. But the market can stay irrational longer than most people can stay solvent like Keynes said. In reality there is no right and wrong in the markets, there's just price action and risk management and how you're positioned at a certain moment in time.
Additionally, most people are attracted to the markets for the wrong reasons. When you couple that with such a low barrier to entry then you will have a lot of failure. So yeah, there are a lot of idiots trying to get rich quick in the markets, that's also true. The retail space has a lot of unconscious incompetent experts.
Succeeding in the markets is akin to making it in the NBA, NFL, PPV boxing for a world championship, etc. It's a intellectual performance sport that requires more than just intelligence. You have to be able to perform everyday at the highest level in high pressure situations, and your biology wasn't made for the scenarios the market throws at you. You have to condition your central nervous system to be able to execute in the markets. Your body literally things someone is trying to kill you when your PnL starts going red. You take profits too quick because your body things it just escaped a burning building. You also have a lot of poor people in the markets that are attracted to trading because they're desperate. That means they need every trade to work and every trade that doesn't work makes them even more poor than they already were. It also means they need instant gratification because they're trying to quickly escape poverty.
Anyone can pick up a ball, but most people don't assume they can make it to the NBA just because they have a basketball and a court. Unfortunately, anyone can open up a brokerage account, but most people who do think they can become a market wizard because they have access to a brokerage account.

Nano / microcap stocks will be 99% losers. The companies tend to have no money to last them thru the quarter, little or no revenues, sometimes they dont even have a business. Lol. You can look at their charts where they lost 99% of there value annually for the last 10 years. Just dilution and dilution, 4 reverse splits a year. Lol. It is crazy. Picking a failing company is something that can easily be done with 100% accuracy for the lowest of IQ people.
Imagine looking at a company that has operating expenses way higher than their cash on hand with no revenue. It trades at $1.00 a share. Next earnings report it will lose $3.00 a share in earnings. There are hundreds if not thousands of these on the major exchanges.
There are stocks that reverse split and dilute so much that there historical price chart shows many of them traded at 100,000,000 dollars per share. Now worth .04 cents. That is the power of 20 reverse splits for you.

Full transparency I'm responding with AI, because you're just so wrong about everything that I don't want to waste my time arguing with you.
“Mediocre growth” is an interesting description for a company that grew Q2 revenue 11%, adjusted EPS 23%, and expanded adjusted operating margin by 200 basis points. Q1 revenue grew 10%, with adjusted EPS up 14%. In 2025, revenue grew 8% and adjusted EPS grew 14%. That’s durable double-digit earnings growth from a business already operating at enormous scale—not mediocre. �
S&P Global +2
Comparing SPGI’s debt with “financial stocks” is also sloppy. SPGI isn’t a lender funding a loan book. Its debt is ordinary corporate debt, much of it associated with the IHS Markit acquisition, supported by highly recurring revenue and roughly $5.1 billion of annual free cash flow. Debt-to-EBITDA is around 1.5×, which is nowhere near distress territory. �
spglobal.com +1
The company produced an adjusted operating margin around 52% in Q1. It returned $6.2 billion through dividends and repurchases in 2025 and bought back another $1 billion in Q1 2026. A highly leveraged, financially strained company does not casually generate that cash or operate at those margins. �
stocktitan.net +1
More importantly, SPGI owns assets that are exceptionally difficult to reproduce: one of the dominant global credit-rating franchises, the S&P and Dow Jones index ecosystem, Capital IQ and other embedded datasets, and Platts commodity benchmarks. Customers don’t abandon these products because somebody launches a cheaper app. They’re integrated into regulations, contracts, investment mandates, pricing systems, and institutional workflows.

It annoys me so much when he calls people low IQ. It's like the dumbest way to question someone's intelligence. It's obvious his vocabulary is extremely limited. The dude has probably never read anything longer than a truth social post.

Puts on your IQ

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What does "Low IQ" mean?

Low IQ take.
When there is a country of 1 Billion+ people with a god sized military that has literally said they will conquer you, not developing a nuke is full blown retarded.

You sound like Trump, claim to be ridiculously smart but in reality you’re on the spectrum and low IQ. Good talk and look out there little guy

realize this is probably too high IQ for WSB, but is anyone here familiar with "cannibal stocks" when do you identify the start/end of cycle to buy in, is it just whenever they dilute again?

Only ones pulling the strings are the even lower IQ people who voted for him.

Für hohen IQ wird man anscheinend nicht gewählt …

Die Konzerne geben es nicht weiter, wenn man sich das aus dem Frühjahr anguckt, und die Reserven werden auch immer weniger. Also ja, steigt weiter.
Das ist nur ein Transfer von den Steuerzahlern ohne Verbrenner zu den Steuerzahlern mit Verbrenner, mit 10-20% Friktion die bei den Konzernen hängen bleibt. Auch ich wünschte wir hätten ein Parlament mit hohem IQ, aber es wird gerade wohl eher schlimmer.

🥭(HIGH IQ!) WILL END THE WAR BY UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF PEACE LMAO!

Do stupid shit, you'll get your account blocked. As 99.9% periodic of the sub-50 IQ ppl who complain on this subred.

Holding multiple directly conflicting beliefs at the same time is not a problem when you have zero critical thinking skills and 73 IQ. 

I think 130 is actually enough for it to be a realistic goal, with a few years of consistent effort studying. It depends on how good your fundamentals are in terms of crystallised knowledge.
The thing is most people will never put in the grind required. So in a regime where people are not grinding to their full potential, you naturally get an over representation of +3SD IQ people (top 0.3%).

what IQ IS enough then?

IQ is not a guarantee, that the prediction or personal usability is likely to happen in real World (sadly, since it is all manipulated).
Remember this? "$65 or $380? Analysts have wildly different outlooks for oil prices in 2023. Here’s what they expect" sauce: [https://fortune.com/2022/07/05/oil-price-jpmorgan-chase-citigroup-predictions-2023/](https://fortune.com/2022/07/05/oil-price-jpmorgan-chase-citigroup-predictions-2023/)
For example, my brain is smooth and I do own the most valuable asset on this Planet.

what absolute IQ level does it take? Like is 130 good enough?