Guanting

AI Enthusiast × Intraday Trader
Focused on small-cap scalping & momentum.
Building trading edges with AI while the world rewires itself.
Not financial advice.

[Guanting @GuantingCh]

@TheOneLanceB I'd rather see a failed bounce first.

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@jchmdc Totally!

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@zaneccampbell The usage now is just not the same anymore 😢

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@iam_3bu1 Yep. Curiosity is expensive.

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Everyone's complaining Grok Bot usage drains too fast. Mine did too.

My bots were writing scripts, babysitting runs, reading full logs. Now they only coordinate, with Codex doing the heavy work.

Here are 9 things that cut my burn 👇 https://t.co/NqqFzcObHh

[Guanting @GuantingCh]

Everyone's complaining Grok Bot usage drains too fast. Mine did too.

Then I realized my bots were doing the wrong job. They were writing scripts, babysitting runs, reading full logs. Context is the most expensive thing they have.

9 things that cut my burn 👇

[Guanting @GuantingCh]

Everyone's complaining Grok Bot usage drains too fast. Mine did too.

My bots were writing scripts, babysitting runs, reading full logs. Now they only coordinate, with Codex doing the heavy work.

Here are 9 things that cut my burn 👇 https://t.co/NqqFzcObHh

[Guanting @GuantingCh]

@AtlasMindAI Appreciate it. Less noise, more signal.

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Running 10 AI agents taught me one thing: communication is a cost.

In a real company, every person-to-person handoff costs time and adds hidden inefficiency. Between bots it's worse: every message also burns tokens, dragging a huge context along with it.

A shared memo fixes both. One source of truth means fewer pings, leaner context, lower token burn, and agents that stay aligned without talking.

Cut the meetings, keep the memo.

[Guanting @GuantingCh]

Gold

[Lance Breitstein 🇺🇸🌎 @TheOneLanceB]

THE LACK OF CAPITULATIONS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT!?

On recent calls w SMB & KTG, I observed that stocks haven’t really been capitulating and that this makes for one of the trickiest market environments.

A slow market, you sit on your hands. But an active market that doesn’t quite setup is the most dangerous. Recently we’ve been seeing some massive moves, but nothing so juicy and nothing so capitulatory. But seductive, it is.

Probably since the “Leopold bottom” stocks have been getting overextended, closing weak, Making it so that you don't position long on the front side only to gap up the next day.

This happened a few weeks ago and with most of the semis, after yesterday's weak price action, it is happening again with today's gap up. Each time, you feel FOMO and question whether this will be the turn and you will have missed it. I think I am not alone when I say that there are many frustrated traders out there right now.

Most importantly, what does one do about it? I think there are a few options.

1. You can conclude that, due to the increase in overnight trading and global trading, there has been a structural change where sectors and stocks are not going to capitulate intraday as much anymore. This is a theory I am certainly keeping an eye on, but I am not so convinced just yet. If this does end up true, it makes trading the overnight sessions far more appealing and tempting, and it requires us to adapt our trading.

2. The second option is: if this isn't a structural change, you can resist FOMO and sit on your hands, maintaining your high standard of selectivity and only getting involved when something truly sets up. This is largely where I currently sit and am not embarrassed to say it.

3. Option three is somewhere in between. When stocks are overextended and closing weak, you can start to structure a front-side position, particularly appealing to do so using call options. My current view on this is really dependent on the implied volatility and the day of the week. On a Monday, I don't find this so particularly appealing. If there are weekly or monthly options, however, as you get closer and closer to a Friday, I do think this method is starting to have some appeal.

A lot of trading is observing and adapting to market structure changes. I do think that markets and position unwinds have increasingly come outside of market hours, but I'm also not negating the fact that we really haven't got that rip-your-face-off melt. If you're patient and not caught offside, that will more than make up for any of the FOMO now.

In a sense, right now I am at a data collection point. I'm observing, I'm thinking, and I'm talking to other traders. I'm not particularly ready to lower my standards or reach a new conclusion.

As I jokingly told a friend, after four or five times of missing these overnight bounces after a weak close, I'm going to position on the front side. That will be the time that we gap down and melt. It's a joke, but I think there's a lot of truth to that, which is why, ultimately, for now, I'm maintaining my process and selectivity.

I would love to hear all of your thoughts on this.

[Guanting @GuantingCh]

Just two days into building my trading task force with grok @bot , and I’ve already used up 99% of this week’s premium usage.

Productivity has never been this high.

How many tokens are you using for trading tasks?

[Guanting @GuantingCh]

@agents4traders Totally. Working on the review agent first.

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AI won't replace traders. Traders who use AI will replace the ones who don't.

I'm not waiting. I'm building a trading task force with Grok Bot: market research, trade review, performance coaching.

Which of those would you automate first?

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Scalpers trading highly volatile stocks need two types of exit strategies:

- RUNNERS: Looser stops based on the structural integrity of the price action.
- SPRINTERS: Much tighter stops anchored to the entry price.

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@tradethepinacle Absolutely

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In small-cap premarket trading, liquidity is the decisive factor in determining whether to enter the very first legs as news breaks.

News + gap-up + HOD breakout can create a strong long-side edge, but that alone doesn’t justify an entry.

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$BHVN sharp rotation falling below VWAP. This no longer looks like a long for short-term trades.

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Small caps remain ice-cold this morning. $AMOD is the only name showing some real premarket momentum.

I typically take 10–15 trades during a normal premarket session. In conditions like these, keep it within a handful. This is the best window for reviewing stats and learning.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Do a kickflip!