Houston

Ex-TradFi trader turned FT crypto. Founder of Montreal Traders Meetup and Montreal DAO. Subscribe:

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@edgeful IB

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@everestchris6 @eptwts Hermes

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@antmillionsbot Hi

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@antmillionsbot YES

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@options_insight VIX

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@walletofsatoshi [email protected]

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@UAPDr @EricBurlison @JeremyCorbell @g_knapp @MvonRen The objects to me appears to be organic. 1 cell breaks into smaller cells.

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Early days are for maximizing variance, not minimizing it.

Everyone optimizes for routine when they should optimize for upside.

The safe path teaches you to be comfortable and employable.

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When your process fails, don't patch it.

Study why it collapsed.

Then rebuild from the lesson, not the wreckage.

That's the difference between incremental tweaks and structural advantage.

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Rote practices are other people's solutions to other people's problems.

Your process is built from your constraints, your data, your failures.

Every time you copy a framework, you inherit their blind spots and skip your own learning.

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I would stop taking advice from people whose systems I wouldn't steal.

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The only opinions I trust are tested by price and process.

Everything else is just expensive noise.

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Meanwhile the ones who built their own system from first principles are quietly eating everyone's lunch.

The meta-game isn't learning best practices.

It's building the process that generates your own.

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Best practices are averages designed for masses.

Your process is a weapon built for your constraints.

Every cycle I watch operators copy frameworks that worked for different problems, different markets, different people.

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Early days: every decision is a bet with incomplete information.

Later: every decision is optimization with known variables.

Most people flip this backwards and wonder why they plateau.

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@JamesWynnReal Do you want to be right; or make money?

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After 15+ years trading, 3 truths:
– Obvious signals lie
– Comfort kills adaptation
– Most action is noise dressed as progress

Trading strips away every illusion about work that matters versus work that feels productive

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@LevJampolsky @BowTiedSystems Fine work ser! 🫡

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Transparency can improve execution for whales but at the cost of being stop hunted.

If the liquidation price is known it becomes the Schelling point.

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Leverage kills more traders than skill deficits ever will.

Wynn's liquidation is a risk management case study, not a eulogy.

Position sizing beats prediction every time.