AHorihuela
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I don't think a straight razor is a fair comparison to their product.
You should reach out to people from your class (and years around it) that ended up in SF. Check out RethinkDB for example - part of their team is UChicago. Lollihop is another one.
The only problem is that if you invest only a few hundred bucks, trading commissions (~$20 to buy and sell) eat up a big portion of your (potential) returns. For example, if you invest $200 and come out of your trade even (selling bonds back to the market for $200), you still pay $20 in trading commissions, so you'd be already down 10% on your trade. In other words, you'd need to be up 10% on your trade (which is very nice) in order to just compensate for commissions.
I work at an investment bank, which means my workday starts at 6:30am and don't usually get home until 8 or 9pm. However, I still manage to come home and work (or play, really) on other projects.
Having interesting projects to work on (as opposed to articles to read) makes a tremendous difference on personal motivation.
Work on something you are interested in and this won't be a problem.