I'm going to be very honest with you when I say this, I can't wait for the API to be updated. Not because I want to spend hours playing with it, well maybe just a little. Not because I'm curious to see what they're gonna add to it based on user feedback; another lie.
The truth is, I'm really lazy when it comes to investing or handling my own money. Even in my own personal life I'm lazy when it comes to figuring things out. Specifically related to EA though, I have a hard time finding something that I want to invest in. I've had at least 10k in E credit sitting in my account for the last few weeks. Built up from a combination of dividend returns as well as my own stock being sold.
That in itself was kind of daunting. I mean, one day I logged in and 50 shares were sold. Score! The next thing I knew, 150, 75, 50, 125, 150. WTF was going on? I hadn't seen sales in my stock for a while and only out of pity from people I actually knew. So to see my own stock sell to randoms was a little weird.
Then came the matter of actually having cash to play with. I think in the last few weeks I've only invested in one or two people. Sure it was a flat out purchase of 200 shares but they were of friends. Yup, I was subjecting my cash to what the likeliest denomination of mass purchase comes down to: relational understanding that you help a brother/sister out, even if their stock currently doesn't look like it's going to do so well.
And that's the heart of my problem, I know I can spend money cause I've got tons I just don't know where. I don't want to do the research, like Arturo over there, to figure out who my best dividend returner is going to be. Much less track all my stocks to see whether they're trending an upwards motion because they're actually worth value or downwards because of a lack of activity and discontinued connections.
What I want is, the app I have in my mind. I want it to pull all the data I'm expecting the API to provide. I want it to crunch all those little numbers. I want it to store the important, but not personal, data regarding historical changes for those users that fit the data model requested. I want it to be pretty. I want it to give me all the answers I want. I want it to tell me when to act and when to wait.
But until such a time, despite what Arturo says to me, I'm going to let my bank account accumulate through current investments only. Even though I know that in the long run that if I were to invest the money the returned dividend value should offset that amount at least by some marginal amount but that would require work to figure out and as we already know, I'm waiting.
When it comes down to it I think that for me this has become a numbers game in my head to figure out. I'm still having fun, just not playing well with others.
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