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Zillow Group, Inc. Class C Capital Stock
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if it's anything like Dragon Ball Z that next episode won't conclude until 2028

Imagine being in Gen Z. I was lucky to be wrapping up college when chatGPT started, these kids in high school and college now are going to end up retarded because they ask chat for everything. 

No they are retarded. Gen Z is the first gen in history to not be on average more intelligent than the gen before it

Whenever I get into a discussion about a stock like this I tell the person "Sell me on the turnaround story"
I see some revenue growth but not a lot, I don't see anyone in the company that matters that are confident enough to buy shares. Maybe some are risk averse but all? It doesn't pass the smell test. All I see is massive share dilution relative to growth where I cant see this becoming profitable for investors.
Plus its snapchat... who is it supposed to appeal to? Is there new growth among Gen Z who would be appealing to advertisers enough to increase ad spend?

I’m wondering if I’m just a classic older generation shitting on the younger or if Gen Z is actually fucking retarded
They are legit cooked more than your mother in law making steak 

Dawg you gotta be the boomer to not to realize most of the world is using Meta products. Every normie in a developed enough country to own a smartphone under the age of 30 has Instagram and is probably addicted to it. Social currency is so valuable and Meta controls the majority of the space with IG. Meta also controls the entire VR gaming market with Quest (prev Oculus) and is reaching into a new consumer/influencer markets with the Meta Ray-Bans. On top of that, there are billions of people abroad using WhatsApp, a bunch of boomers still on legacy Facebook + a mix of Gen Z on Facebook too because FB Marketplace has become more dominant than all other local buy/sell platforms. And this isn't even touching on the millions of huge corporations, brands, ecom bozos, small businesses, influencers, etc who put the bulk of their marketing/ad spend into Meta. They've done extensive work for the FOSS community, AR/VR reality hardware development, I mean the list just goes on. They make so much damn money and have insane profit margins. They've grown from a 100B mcap to almost a 2 TRILLION in less then 7 years. Yes people really use Meta products dumbass.

Congrats on getting this far — especially with live results tracking the backtest after including slippage over 3 weeks. That's legitimately rarer than most "profitable" scalping posts make it seem, and the humility in asking "how soon will it fail?" is refreshing.The equity curve looks clean for what it is (nice upward slope with reasonable drawdowns), and Sharpe >1 on a mean-reversion setup over \~1 year is solid on paper. Holding 2–6 min on 5s bars with strict session exits is disciplined — no revenge trading or overnight bombs.That said, the sub is right to flag the regime risk. Mean-reversion on NQ/Nasdaq scalps tends to crush in low-vol, range-bound/choppy environments (which 2025–early 2026 seems to have delivered in spades), but gets arbitraged hard or stops getting filled properly when vol clusters spike, trends persist, or liquidity thins (think election vol, Fed surprises, or just a shift to trending regime). Your Oct–Nov flat/negative periods in the backtest already hint at that sensitivity.A few practical next steps that helped similar setups survive longer (not guarantees, but filters that cut decay):
* Add lightweight regime detection to pause or reduce size: e.g., simple VIX threshold + recent ATR percentile buckets, or even a basic HMM/ clustering on returns/vol to label "reversion-friendly" vs "trend" states. Many here mentioned ML routes, but even rule-based (triple MA crossover + vol filter) can help avoid fighting the tape.
* Stress-test on older data if possible (pre-2025 NQ1 or ES equivalent) or synthetic regime shifts (amplify vol/drawdown periods in Monte Carlo).
* Track execution metrics religiously live: realized vs expected slippage, fill rates on stops/limits, adverse selection on entries. 5s bars hide a lot intra-bar.
* Consider a "meta" layer: if drawdown exceeds X% over rolling Y days or Sharpe live drops below Z, auto-pause and alert.
Keep running it small/side-project size for at least another 2–3 months (ideally through a proper vol event). If it holds similar metrics through chop + spike, that's when it becomes really interesting.What are you thinking for the next iteration — volatility-based stops first, or dipping into regime logic? Curious to hear how it evolves.Good luck, and thanks for sharing transparently — motivates a lot of us grinding similar stuff.

Being blue collar in a clique of cs majors, none of them really have issues finding work or worries of layoffs. I think these issues may be more local to the large cities? Or possibly due to saturation in the industry.
But to add to your post, if you are hurting for work and are capable of manual labor, there are tons of small construction industry companies DESPERATE for hands. Larger companies will have more benefits and safety standards (which can be annoying at times but is a huge plus in regards to lung health) but they can also have more headaches and bureaucracy. Unions can be the best of both worlds, and 9/10 times they are, but in rural areas you may be required to travel and temporarily live away from home for large jobs. Trade school is a scam (yes, as someone who is hiring) UNLESS IT IS A UNION TRADE SCHOOL AND YOU ARE IMMEDIATELY WORKING IN THE UNION AFTER GRADUATING.
There are very few millennials keeping the small-medium scale trades afloat as the boomers retire, and there is a good amount of Gen Z that is interested but they are being fed "school school school student debt student debt student debt you need SCHOOL TO GET A JOB" even in regards to the trades and I cannot stress enough how BAD of an idea paying money for trade school is when you don't even know if the work is a fit for you, and (private) trade school will not give you real life experience or exposure to what the industry is actually like, again, unless it is a union trade school.
Learn the job skills from Bob. He has two metal knees, cancer is afraid of his lungs and his wife took the kids, dog, and hand-built custom home with unfinished details.
But he knows what he is doing, and you can learn. You can wear kneepads and dust masks/respirators, and keep the dog in the divorce.

Statistically its easier to loosen my butthole rather than me eating a women. 
Social media is a disaster to the new world. GEN Z are cooked 

I’ve been lurking and participating in this sub for years, and I’ve noticed a disturbing trend that’s been picking up steam lately.
What used to be a haven for deep dives into balance sheets, cash flows, and intrinsic value calculations has turned into a parade of story plays masquerading as value investing.
You know the type: *”Company X just acquired Company Y! Their products are a match made in heaven … synergies in marketing and R&D! This is undervalued gold at current prices!”*
Don’t get me wrong, narratives can be fun and even insightful, but they’re not value investing. **Value investing is about buying dollar bills for 50 cents, not speculating on fairy tales where everything aligns perfectly without a shred of quantitative backing.**
Lately, posts here read like hype threads from r/wallstreetbets or r/stocks : *“This acquisition will unlock massive growth!” or “Product Z is revolutionary, so company it’s a steal”*
I can’t be the only one that’s noticed this right ?

Ja es gibt eine Nachfrage und die ist dann die Basis für Spekulation. Man erhofft sich, dass es immer so weitergeht, nimmt an irgendwer wird schon jeden Preis bezahlen, man wird reich werden. Nur ist die Basis dafür halt nur Nachfrage aber nicht "Stadt X ist Silicon Valley und die ganzen Mitarbeiter verdienen 100.000 Euro in Jahr.". Wohnungen sind halt Pokemonkarten. Den Glurak der ersten Auflage kannst du nicht verfielfältigen, den gibt es nur in Auflage X und Y Zustand Z Mal. Wenn Immobilien zu reinen Spekulationsobjekten werden und das in Städten wo niemand die Investitionen realistisch decken kann, ist das eine Spekulationsblase nach Lehrbuch genau wie die Pokemonkarten, Beanie Babies, Pogs, Briefmarken, Porzellan, Buchsammlungen und alles andere.

Grundsätzlich sind 0,5-2% in vielen Bereichen üblich (oder Pauschalbetrag pro Stk.). Ist aber tatsächlich sehr von der Branche abhängig.
Im digitalen Bereich (aber auch manch anderen, wo es nicht um Massenartikel geht), sind 5-10% durchaus auch anzutreffen.
Da dies aber wirklich je nach konkreten Fall sehr unterschiedlich sein kann, was üblich ist, traue ich mich nicht für dein Vorhaben eine Schätzung abzugeben.
Ich hoffe meine Erfahrungswerte können dir dennoch irgendwie helfen.
(Das Lizenzmodell kann auch als fixer monatlicher Betrag aufgesetzt werde. Z.B. 500€/Monat für vollumfängliche Nutzung der Marke und Produktrechte o.Ä.. da gibt es kaum Vorgaben und man kann sich wirklich nach dem orientieren, was für Lizenzgeber und Lizenznehmer am praktikabelsten ist)

Calls on Z pack too

Vielleicht hängt es auch mit der Erziehung und dem Charakter ab.
Mein Vater war sehr sparsam, eigentlich schon geizig. Ich habe von klein auf Glaubenssätze aufgesogen wie "xy Euro für Z?!", "das ist mir zu teuer", "wer zahlt denn sowas", "bei Laden Y kostet das 3 Pfennig weniger", im Studium hatte ich kaum Geld und mir alles selbst finanziert (weil Unterhalt zahlt so ein Vater ja nicht gern).
Ich verdiene zwar 2k netto weniger als du, habe aber, inkl. Miete, knapp 500 Euro an Fixkosten (zzgl. Essen). Kurz um, ich habe recht viel Geld übrig. Ich habe es zwar geschafft, mir mittlerweile Dinge zu gönnen (Gaming PC, Kamera, OLED Monitor/TV), habe aber trotzdem Probleme damit, Geld auszugeben und "voll auf die Kacke" zu hauen, weil jede Ausgabe (insb. kleine) gegenchecke und sich für mich automatisch schlecht anfühlt. Im Urlaub kann ich das ein wenig ablegen, aber auch hier suche ich mir nette, günstige Ferienwohnungen, statt das doppelt oder dreimal so teure Airbnb zu nehmen, auch wenn ich es mir locker leisten könnte.
Und so fließt einfach alles ins Depot. Und mir ist bewusst, dass wenn ich irgendwann mein Depot anzapfen werde, das ebenfalls mit einem schlechten Gefühl verbunden ist.
Gut, es gibt vermutlich auch solche, für die ist ein wachsendes Depot mehr Dopamin und Serotonin, als das gleiche Geld in eine Oldtimersammlung "investiert" zu sehen.
Was ich sagen will: Menschen ticken einfach unterschiedlich.

🥭 said he wants boomers home values to go up even more! No homes for your Generation Z

No problem. Most AI can easily BS about Z axes

When it's all crashing and there is blood everywhere, Buy,Buy,Buy,Buy,Buy then buy some more!! When everyone is dumping their bags at a loss you buy at a discount, it's the only way true money is made, be fearless!!! The Stock market will always bounce back, sure you might have to wait 18 months to see those massive gains but as long as you buy good quality and proven stocks and ETF's you will thank me later.. like this past Crypto crash!! Blockchain and RWA's are not going ANYWHERE!! ITS ALMOST GUARANTEED THAT CHAINLINK ALONE WILL AT VERY LEAST HIT ITS ALL TIME HIGH AGAIN, SURE IT MIGHT BE IN 2029-2030 BUT STACKING OVER 1,000 AT 7 AND 8 BUCKS, AT ONE POINT I WAS UP $12,000 IN PROFIT AND THAT WAS AN ENTRY POINT OF $11 DOLLARS!! I WATCHED IT CRASH I GOT DRUNK AND SAID FUCK IT, DROP $250 A MONTH AT 7-8 BUCKS.. SOME SAY IT WILL EVEN HIT OVER $100 AT SOME POINT BEFORE 2030!! ITS IN THE TOP 15 CRYPTOS, AND ITS LITERALLY THE PIPELINE THAT MAKES THE ENTIRE CRYPTO SPACE AND CROSS CHAIN INTEROPERABILITY WORK, AND NOW HAS PARTNERSHIPS WITH HUNDREDS OF GIGANTIC CORPORATIONS AND IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE!! IT IS 100% THE MOST UNDERVALUED CRYPTO ON THE LIST!!! WAIT UNTIL THEY ANNOUNCE SOME SHIT LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO MANAGE DATA BETWEEN AI AND DATA CENTERS!! THATS THE NEXT BIG THING THAT IS CURRENTLY IN THE WORKS!! DATA CENTERS FOR THE AI BOOM!! AND POWERING THEM, LMAO I MADE $4,000 IN 25 MINUTES A FEW MONTHS AGO ON "BITFARMS" SOLD MY BAG 💰 20 MINUTES BEFORE IT CRASHED!! THEN REBOUGHT AT $2 BUCKS AND HOLDING FOR 5 YEARS!! IT WILL COME BACK WITH TIME!!! ALL OF THE BIG BOYS BOUNCE BACK,, TIME IN THE MARKET TRUMPS ALL!! AND MOST OF US MIDDLE CLASS INVESTORS CAN NO LONGER MAKE MONEY IN THE BIG 10, UNLESS YOU HAVE A HUNDRED GRAND TO DROP ON NVIDIA, OR GOOGLE, ECT DROPPING $3,000 BUCKS INTO APPLE STOCK IS NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE LIFE CHANGING MONEY OVER A 2-5 YEAR TIME SPAN!! YOU NEED
$3 MILLION! WAKE UP AT 8:30 AM EASTERN TIME, OPEN UP YOUR ROBINHOOD APP AND HIT THE SEARCH KEY LIKE 5 MINUTES BEFORE THE OPENING BELL, THEN CLICK ON THE BIGGEST GAINING STOCKS FOR THE DAY!! DO SOME FAST RESEARCH ON THE COMPANIES, GRAB A NOTEBOOK 📓 DO SOME QUICK MATH THEN PICK ONE THEY GENERALLY PUMP FOR A FEW HOURS HEAVILY!! IVE MADE $500+ BUCKS WHILE HAVING COFFEE AT LEAST 10 TIMES DOING THIS . THEN JUST SELL, YES IVE MISSED OUT ON HUGE GAINS BY SELLING TO EARLY IN THE DAY BUT HEY IF I CAN TURN $150 INTO $500 BEFORE I EVEN LEAVE FOR WORK IM COOL WITH THAT , THEN I TAKE THE 500 AND DUMP IT 50/50 INTO NVIDIA AND VOO OR QQQ, I ALSO THINK RIOT PLATFORMS IS GOING TO DO AMAZING THINGS IN YEARS TO COME!!!! WE LIVE IN AN AGE WITH ABSOLUTELY LIMITLESS INFORMATION AT OUR FINGER TIPS ON A DAILY BASIS AND 99.99% OF PEOPLE WILL USE THEIR TECHNOLOGY TO WATCH FUNNY CAT VIDEOS!! I ALWAYS SAID IF YOU GAVE SMARTPHONE'S TO MY GENERATION BACK IN THE EARLY 90's WE WOULD HAVE TAKEN OVER THE WORLD!! GEN Z USED THE INTERNET TO SCROLL THROUGH MEMES LIKE ZOMBIES!!!!!

It's a plan Z, it is gas mainly

"Built for Gen Z"...🤦‍♂️
The most financially insecure generation in modern history.

US just ctrl+Z'd a million jobs like it was a typo in their Wendy's application!