One of the features of many quantifiable things that make money is they often make money most of the time but tend to smack you in the face occasionally, usually at the worst possible time. Carry trades, long stocks, vol selling, most quant relative value trades.

It is amusing as well as human that controlled risk seems.... More risky. But that purely comes from the fact that you stare risk in the face... It is knowing the exact risk you are exposed to and controlling it vs. suddenly realizing that you took on a lot of risk.

Hardly anyone is willing to make the sacrifices required to be successful, now more than ever. The internet and “make money online” space is an absolute bubble. Running through the competition has never been easier because most will give up before they ever truly try.

Perfect British weather today

Which title would you be more interested in getting a copy of? 1. Reduce Draw Downs, Maximize Returns 2. Reduce Losses, Maximize Returns

The perspective should not be: "M strategy is doing good/bad". But instead it should be: "My portfolio is doing well/or not". Only this way we can get rid of: "I need this strategy to do well here, here, here" Now the only task of a trend strategy is to work during trends.

GM! Thought I share how July went. Some early losses with the BMD, while the BPM carried the portfolio. ✅ BMD kicked in according to plan when it needed to. ✅ With a medium risk level the stats are: Max DD%: -5.89% Returns: 10% (at exact EoM)

Minimizing portfolio volatility is the key to maximizing compounding process capacity.

We become what we think about.

It genuinely IS once you REALLY think it through Like why the fuck WOULDN’T you win? NOBODY DOES ANYTHING Going .001 steps BEYOND “ABSOLUTE MINIMUM EFFORT” literally puts you in 1%. NOBODY DOES ANYTHING. Once u realize all u gotta do is BARELY MORE FUCKING EFFORT THAN BASE

No one fears "potential"

Most people do just enough to avoid the guilt of doing nothing.

He is most likely running a delta-neutral strategy. That setup pays around 1.7556% every four hours, or roughly 11% per day. On an account size of $600,000, that works out to more than $60,000 daily. Instead of betting on price direction, he is simply farming funding fees.

Companies are searching (to hire) people with experience in "Vibe-coding". Seriously -_- Better yet, they are searching these people to build company based AI's (GPT wrappers with internal knowledgebase). I don't see how this is supposed to work out

Being fast with a "dirty" implementation over taking 2 months to build something clean - where the edge already got outcompeted 1 1/2 months ago

Thing is (to hopefully no surprise), this does not get you anywhere - but it feels good (enough) with the least effort put into it For this reason most people default to this

It is very interesting how easy it is for us to underestimate ourselves

You don't get to stay the same and evolve.