one good thing of the constant rage bait on this platform.
eventually you kinda become immune to it.
people can rage bait you on your face on the street, and you don't even blink.

cringe tweet of the day:
I don't appreciate enough times, how good and unusual it is being able to work on stuff that it's deeply engaging and interesting to me every day.
I worked a decent amount of time on jobs I didn't care for, and always felt a subcounscious feeling of stress or urgency, despite making good money for my age and my country.
idk what that was, but I always felt it, regardless of the job.
ever since I started doing my own thing full-time, even if not always making more than I was at my job, that feeling dissipated.
I feel truly grateful and fulfilled by being able to do that

just found out a new model I deployed that is using alternative data, was taking data from an outdated sqlite database after I migrated everything to postgre db.
note to self: if you're not going to issue strict controls, always eliminate db's that are not being used in folder.

daily reminder to self to keep iterating on new features/alphas (don't know the distinction) and not get complacent.
maximize doing PnL tasks , minimize non-pnl tasks.
tomorrow add to the time tracker this two buckets and start drifting towards the desired time allocations.

there's a scene in GOT I really like.
he says something along the lines:
"I fought, I lost, now I rest."
it always gives me this sense of peace, thinking about it, idk why.
sometimes you fail at stuff, but you tried.
how much worse would be, wondering what could've been.

so I have a strategy with quite high turnover that I know can be fixed.
I kinda winged it when I deployed, had a few heuristics and shipped.
> good to farm points
> bad for transaction costs
I guess question is, points value > cost of turnover?
decisions...

Looking for recommendations:
Accountants in Portugal who can handle a small trading and services business. Ideally a company comfortable with crypto.
Planning to transition in 2026.
DMs open

everyone making fun of Jake Paul and I get it at some level, why people would want to see him fail.
but I respect him for stepping in that ring with that man.
real easy to make fun and laugh from a couch.

"One sign that you're suited for some kind of work is when you like even the parts that other people find tedious or frightening."

if you trade independently, you must be always confronting your shortfalls.
a never ending pursuit of your flaws and not allow yourself to fall into the trap of throwing it under a rung bc it's uncomfortable.
what are you doing to change, to be better, who's advising you?

In light of the current "retail trader can't make money" debate, I'm seriously considering, that in 2026, each month, I publish how much money I made.
From the dumbest , most uneducated retail trader you will find.
Me.

some days I just got to sink in time making sure that the the dashboard is really good at telling me the information I need.
it's a 0-pnl generating task, and should be kept at a minimum during the year.
but I feel like I have to do them or eventually I'll pay for it.

just paid a day and half of carry fat fingering an order.
gm.

one good thing about slop finding its way into the masses is that it means better counterparties long-term.
while absolute gold mines of article/podcasts get a few views/likes due to its technical "heaviness" at times.
this is both sad, yet at the same time, good for business.

spent the last 3-4 days integrating an alternative dataset to my research infra.
making it scalable is priority because I want to add alternative data sets in the future, and not spend 3-4 days doing it.
always think in scalability.
next time, will be a few lines of code.

the output in which I can test new trade ideas is really important to me.
if I have to dig the entire codebase each time I want to test a new feature, market, alternative dataset, that loss of time compounds and good ideas get left behind.
this has been my focus to fix and I'm really close to a level of efficiency that I am happy about.
it has to be as close to a click of a button as possible.
obviously the feature engineering requires some adaptation and also if different market types are introduced.
but all else should not have to be re-adjusted on each iteration for the most part.

how much time is spent by people here arguing politics.
bruv it aint anything changing because you as an anon is talking to the other anon about the rage bait of the other anon.
if you're already close to retired rage bait away.
but damn, leave the internets for a second.