19:35 <pikajude> hey guys i have a financial question

19:35 <pikajude> can anyone help me

19:35 <pikajude> hey ELLIOTTCAPITALIST

19:35 <pikajude> ec:

19:36 <ljharb> what's the question

19:36 <ljharb> answer: buy low, sell high

19:38 <pikajude> i looked it up on the internet

19:38 <pikajude> it's for my ESPP

19:38 <pikajude> my parents never told me this stuff

19:38 <pikajude> but i googled it and i think i got good advice

19:42 <pikajude> i guess i should stop bitching about my parents and just look everything up online

19:45 <pikajude> etrade has a video narrated by a nonthreatening lady about how to trade stocks

19:45 <pikajude> i uh

19:45 <pikajude> feel like i'm in high school

20:21 <alexgordon> lol ljharb

20:21 <purr> lolll

21:03 <ljharb> pikajude: for ESPP: always max it out, always sell 100% of it the instant you get it

21:03 <ljharb> it's free money

21:04 <ljharb> and the only reason to hold it 1 second longer than you have to, is if, in the scenario where you had sold it, you'd have turned around and repurchased the same amount of shares for cash anyways

21:05 <pikajude> okay

21:05 <pikajude> didn't know what it was and was too stressed out to deal with it last year

21:05 <pikajude> so i lost out on that

21:06 <ljharb> no worries, just max it out from now on

21:06 <ljharb> (assuming you can afford the reduced paycheck, ofc)

21:06 <ljharb> same applies to a 401k contribution: always max it out, whether there's matching or not, as long as you can afford the reduced paycheck

21:19 <pikajude> ok

21:19 <pikajude> wow, the rare google being shit

21:19 <pikajude> the old "search term not present in the page we returned"

21:19 <pikajude> thanks google

21:19 <pikajude> just don't give me the goddamn page