Anthony Moustacalis

Board member Advocates' Society 2018-2022. President Criminal Lawyers' Association 2013-2017; Appeals and Trials since 1984. Law news, #A2J and #AI

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@AJain2685 @smartertrader Smart people know to ask around sometimes...

[ZAYVEN KNOX @ZayvenKnox]

An Anthropic engineer paid for my espresso at Sightglass when he saw my screen

I was running my Polymarket bot from the counter. He was next in line. Looked over my shoulder. Stopped scrolling.

"That's not a normal trading app. What's it actually running on"

I told him. Claude Code. Four repos. $25 a month.

He sat down without asking.

"I'm on the agent team. We stress test Claude for exactly this. You're letting it find its own edges"

Not just edges. Wallets.

86 million trades. Every wallet. Every entry. Every exit.

"You're feeding Claude raw wallet data and letting it identify who consistently wins. Then cloning them"

He said it slowly. Like he was writing the threat model in his head.

One prompt. Find every wallet with 100 plus trades and win rate above 70%. Rank by profit. Export top 50.

Claude scanned 14,000 wallets in 4 minutes. Returned 47.

The top 20 made more than the bottom 13,000 combined.

"That's not a stat. That's a hit list"

Exactly.

"And you didn't write the scoring function"

Claude did. I just wired it into an if-statement.

Then I showed him the second repo.

Official Rust CLI. No API key for reads. 500 markets, Claude scores them in minutes.

Gap. Depth. Resolution window.

487 markets become 35 before a dollar moves.

93% killed before I even see them.

A green fill landed on the screen. +$84.

He watched it hit.

"How does it decide to actually enter"

Three agents. Shared wallet. No shared memory. Arbitrage, convergence, whale copy. 2 agree, full size. 1 alone, half. Disagree, no trade.

Consensus filter alone killed 40% of losing trades.

"And the exits?"

The 47 whales never hold to settlement. 91% exit early. 73% of max profit captured. Redeploy immediately.

My bot cuts at 85% of expected move or on a 3x volume spike.

"You built a whale copy bot that exits before the whales"

Yeah.

He put his espresso down.

"How often does it trade"

10 a day on average. Most of them skipped before I look up from my coffee.

My setup:
Claude API - $20/mo
VPS in Germany - $5/mo
poly_data - free
polymarket-cli - free
Polymarket/agents - free

$200 seed. 27 days ago. $14,300 now.

Copytrade here: https://t.co/zDXGamMWw0…

271 trades. 74% win rate. Sharpe 2.47.

I haven't touched it in 27 days.

He stared at the screen for a long time.

"This is literally what our red team simulates. Except you actually shipped it"

He emailed me the next morning.

"Any chance you'd take a call with our policy lead"

I told him the article is the call. Read it twice.

Too late to gatekeep.

You only need Claude + laptop + 1 hour/day.

Giving This Free for 24 hours. To get it:

1. Comment the word 'Claude'
2. Like and Retweet this post
3. Follow me
@ZayvenKnox

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@ZayvenKnox Claude

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@TradingWarz Leaps

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@kpak82 Keep on posting. Please ignore the trolls, I find the content and common sense reminders helpful.

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@JPATrades This turned out to be an excellent trade! Thanks !

[Criminal Lawyers’ Association @ClaOntario]

These attacks threaten to undermine our justice system. Doug Ford is making things worse

Adam Weisberg, President, Criminal Lawyers' Association, Contributor

Choose your weapons, grab your ammo and get in line. It’s open season on judges.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a politician, a police chief, a struggling podcaster or a fledgling columnist trying to make a name. Going after judges is all the fashion these days.

Best of all, like the proverbial fish in a barrel, judges make for an easy target. Since they are obliged to speak only through their decisions, they can neither shoot back nor speak out. If maligned or misconstrued, they can only hope others will come to their defence.

The latest salvo came after the release of a police review into the jury acquittal of Umar Zameer in the death of a police officer. Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Toronto Police Association President Clayton Campbell demanded an apology from an Ontario Superior Court Justice for stating that police witnesses had apparently falsified their evidence in a bid to frame Mr. Zameer.

Access the full article by going to https://t.co/vrYGNUk0ws

#crimlaw
#cdnlaws

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

Congratulations! Nice to see.

[George Stroumboulopoulos 🐺 @strombo]

15 year old me did not have this on the menu.
#orderofcanada

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@DanRusso_CMT @scottmelker That is why I like you so much, you get it, call it out and are funny! And you get up early. Thanks!

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@JPATrades Still has some time no?

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@DanRusso_CMT So true!

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

Got up at 5 am. Got dressed. Stayed seated in the dark to not wake up my spouse. Went to my coffee shop as soon as it opened to avoid crowds. It's official, I have now turned into my dad...hey he was independent until 96 and made it to 98 so could be worse...

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

One of my favourite views of the city.

[James G. Wigmore @JGWigmore]

Secondhand smoke is not just from tobacco alone
#wigmoreoncannbis

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[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@DanRusso_CMT It is sauce time again!

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

Miss this place. Hope they do something nice with the space.

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

Wonderful story for a rainy Friday.

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

George Benson releases “Give Me the Night” today in 1980

After a month in the studio, he said, “I’d packed my bags — when Quincy Jones alled & said they had one more song

“I wanted to go home but he insisted, ‘Man, it’s a good song. It won’t take long.’”

[John Howard Society @JohnHoward_Can]

Finger-pointing does not fix the bail system nor make us safer. Shame on Premiers for again trying to shift responsibility for a tragic death. Apply the law, speed up system, provide alternatives, collect data, evidence-informed review https://t.co/P6vWKa6XM6 via @nationalpost

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

I remind the judge, nicely, they should be asking me any questions, barring something unusual.

[Harpreet Saini @SainiLaw]

@MarcSciars I’m sometimes amazed when I see a Judge directly addressing an accused while their lawyer sits at counsel table taking notes.

[Anthony Moustacalis @AMoustacalis]

@JPATrades I dunno, Piper Sandler said they spoke with management and made it their top pick - maybe a bit of both?