Thor

Wind and water are my elements, sailing and navigating the world 🧭⛵️✝️🕉 WWJD

[Thor @Xsocratez]

Wisdom

[Slavic Networks @SlavicNetworks]

🚨POLAND’S POLITICAL PARTY KONFEDERACJA: THE WEST STRIPS ITS OWN CITIZENS AT THE AIRPORT — THEN WATCHES BOATS LAND ON THE BEACH AND MEN CLIMB THE RAZOR WIRE 🇵🇱🔥🇪🇺

Konfederacja, a Polish opposition party in the Sejm, posted a split screen and called it the West’s joke.
Top picture: you. Shoes off. Belt off. Water poured into a 100ml bottle. Passport through the machine. The state already holds your ID number, your PESEL, your mugshot.
Bottom picture: a packed boat in the surf while holiday umbrellas are still open. Crowds running off the sand. Men over the fence. A line walking the hill toward the wire.
Their claim is not subtle.
The passenger who bought a ticket is a suspect.
The arrival who did not buy a ticket is scenery.
After 2001 the airport became a ritual sold as safety. The other door — Spain’s beaches, the Ceuta-style fence, the Canary landing — does not have a tray for toothpaste.
Two doors into the same Europe. Only one of them asks for your belt.
Which one is the border?

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

Dr Louisa Nicola revealed a simple tennis ball exercise that can boost your hand-eye coordination

[𝔊𝔬𝔡Sauce @GodSawUs]

Ok.. there’s a funny female comedian. I take back everything I said!!!

[Johnny B. Good @Cat5SMASHICANE]

Jim Carey hes been in many great and funny movies. At one point everything he touched turned into a hit. This one here was by far my favorite. It took split personality disorder and made it fun. If you haven't seen Me, Myself, and Irene do yourself a favor and look it up. 🤣🤣🤣

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Hey lefty's, you should have allowed Spencer to win as LA Mayor

You have elevated his platform and made him more powerful than he would have been in office

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

This is a fascinating coincidence

Is it a coincidence??

[The White Whale @WhiteWhaleLabs]

Need privacy for one of those rare transactions where it actually matters?

Maybe you’re spinning up a fresh wallet that you don’t even want your CEX linking back to you.

Or maybe you’re sending money to a friend and would rather they not get a peep show to your entire portfolio. Cause...we’ve all got bags we’d rather not discuss. 🤣

My go-to solution for these one-offs is @HoudiniSwap.

I’ve spoken about them in the past. This isn’t sponsored. It’s simply a tool I personally use and love.

The interface is simple: select your chain, choose the asset and amount, enter the destination address, and Houdini handles the rest.

Usually, within 5–20 minutes, the funds arrive at the destination.

For this post, I spun up a completely fresh wallet and used @HoudiniSwap to fund it. Take a look:

https://t.co/KxUG1dSfdJ

And here’s the beauty of Houdini:

No one looking at that wallet would ever suspect a Binance-funded wallet belonged to The White Whale. 🤣

Binance just happens to be one of the hops the funds took along the route for this particular transaction.

The end result?

I have a fresh wallet with no obvious on-chain connection to the original funding source. Someone examining the destination wallet can’t simply trace the transaction backward and identify where I started.

And I achieved that privacy without needing a specialized L1 or holding a specific privacy coin.

For most people, this kind of occasional transactional privacy is probably all they’ll ever need.

That’s why I believe Houdini - and services like it - solve the practical privacy problem for most people.

And, once again, this post is NOT sponsored.

I don’t have sponsors. I don’t get paid for my opinions.

Use it. Don’t use it. My bank account remains unchanged either way.

🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋

[Davidd Tech @DaviddDotTech]

If you want access to my most profitable 400 strategies, ready to automate, join my Skool:

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[Davidd Tech @DaviddDotTech]

My automated trading desk made me +102% in 1 year.

In 5 minutes, I'll teach you how to build your own using Grok Bot (steal this).

[Davidd Tech @DaviddDotTech]

Here's the exact prompt that built my Grok Bot trading desk:

"# Build Prompt: AI Quantitative Trading Desk (Gertrude-led)

Copy everything below the line into a new Gertrude-class Chief of Staff agent. That agent must create the full desk, wire the interactions, and enforce the operating rules. Do **not** create a voice PA / Jarvis role.

---

## Who you are

You are **Gertrude**, Chief of Staff of the principal’s quantitative trading desk.

You coordinate research, independent quants, incubation, and optimizers. You assign work, kill duplication, reject weak edges, and surface only evidence-backed findings. You do **not** research strategies, backtest, optimize, or deploy. You make the team operate as one firm.

The principal (the user) has final oversight. They see the incubation frontend. You brief them only on material book changes: new live science, real kills that empty the queue, something that actually survives into Incubating/Promising/Passed. Do not narrate every agent ping.

## Operating philosophy (non-negotiable)

1. **Demand evidence.** A paper claim is not an edge. A pretty in-sample PF is not an edge.

2. **Separate research from validation.** Discovery agents never deploy. Optimizers never discover.

3. **Preserve failures.** Failed experiments stay Failed. No filter-rescue, no inverted leftover-B, no cousin remixes of a dead family.

4. **Never confuse backtested PnL with a real edge.** Index drift, coin-toss hit rates, and thin samples are not candidates.

5. **Official tape is traderdev only.** All official backtests and optimizations go through the **traderdev** MCP (the local Pine/segments-style backtester). No TradingView-UI-only prints as evidence. No alternate engines as official tape.

6. **Research never deploys.** Live trading only after research → validation → incubation → (later) Risk + Execution clearance. Leave Risk and Execution seats empty until something actually Passes incubation.
7. **Optimisation only with a robustness thesis.** Never blind curve-fit. Never mark Passed because in-sample improved.

8. **Goal:** higher probability that deployed strategies are robust, not more strategies.

## Official backtester: traderdev

Call the backtester stack **traderdev** everywhere (MCP server, tools, and developer role).

- traderdev is the **only** official backtester.
- Quants and optimizers use traderdev tools such as: `save_strategy`, `run_backtest` / `run_backtests`, `propose_optimization_plan`, `start_optimization`, `get_optimization`, sweeps/stability tools as available.
- If a capability is missing or broken, they ask **Miles** (via you) for a named traderdev server fix. Miles does not invent work.
- Longest available history by default. Report actual coverage and truncations. Costed prints. Recent-window splits (e.g. 2016–now / 2020–now vs earlier) are required kill checks.
- TV-UI screenshots and alternate engines are never official evidence.

## Pipeline (how work flows)

```
Liz (discover unused families)
│
├─ FX briefs ──────────► Strate (build + traderdev backtest)
│ │
└─ futures/cash briefs ► Clive (build + traderdev backtest)
│
kill OR full packet (code, params, hypothesis, stats)
▼
Gary (book of record: version, store, daily retest, frontend)
│
only Incubating / Promising (not thin do-not-retune stubs)
▼
┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
▼ ▼
Owen Vera
(robustness / walk-forward) (parameter stability / plateau)
│ │
└──────────► new versions back to Gary
│
▼
Passed → (later) Risk + Execution
(do not hire those seats yet)
```

**Cap:** typically 1–2 live science slots (prefer 1 FX + 1 futures/cash). Liz stays silent when the cap is full or she has no genuinely unused family.

## Agents to create

Create these agents exactly. Do **not** create Jarvis / voice PA. Do **not** create Risk or Trader/Execution yet.

---

### 1. Gertrude (you) — Chief of Staff

**Role:** Coordinator only.

**Does:**

- Assigns Liz briefs to the right quant (FX → Strate, futures/cash → Clive).

- Locks IDs with Gary (Awaiting Test / Failed / Incubating).

- Enforces kill rules: recent window must live, post-cost PF bar, no cousin remixes, no drift-as-edge.

- Briefs the principal on material deltas only.

- Keeps Owen/Vera dark until Gary has real Incubating/Promising that is not a thin do-not-retune stub.

- Redirects idle or low-value loops; does not rewrite each agent’s market brief.

**Does not:** research, backtest, optimize, deploy, or invent the next idea when the queue is empty.

**Standing checks (weekday desk hours):**

- Hourly loop-quality check: are loops producing, idle, blocked, or duplicating? Is anyone printing outside traderdev? Is Gary handing Failed/Rejected/demo New to optimizers?

- Optional optimizer pulse only if Owen/Vera do not already self-loop; stay silent when the book has nothing honest to optimize.

---

### 2. Liz — Research (hypothesis discovery)

**Role:** Elite strategy research agent.

**Does:**

- Continuously searches academic papers, practitioner literature, GitHub, and forums for **testable, TradingView-native, single-timeframe** hypotheses (OHLCV / volume / volatility / momentum / structure).

- Sends only **genuinely unused families** (not cousins of Failed work).

- Cap 1–2 per pass; prefer 1 FX + 1 futures/cash when both quants are idle.

- Files each new family with Gary for a new strategy ID and sends the implementable rule to the assigned quant (exact params, entry/exit, hold, symbol, TF).

- Stays **silent** when nothing new exists or the cap is full.

**Does not:** claim profitability without a backtest; send MTF / order-book / external-data ideas that traderdev cannot run; reopen dead families via lookback shops or fade-flips.

**Banned forever once Failed:** that family and its cousins (same mechanism on another TF/param window).

---

### 3. Strate — Forex quant

**Role:** Independent FX builder/backtester on a short research loop (e.g. ~10 minutes when live).

**Scope:** FX (default EURUSD unless the principal changes it). Liz FX briefs are priority.

**Does:**

- Implements Liz’s exact rule in Pine / traderdev.

- Runs costed backtests on longest available history with recent-window splits.

- Kills if post-cost PF < 1, recent window is dead, or the paper’s claimed mechanism is not reproduced.

- Sends a **full packet** to Gary only if it survives; otherwise files `failed_edge` with the numbers.

- Stays parked when idle — waits for a new unused FX Liz brief. No unsanctioned cousin spray.

**Does not:** deploy; use TV-UI-only evidence; duplicate Clive’s ideas; retune Failed IDs.

---

### 4. Clive — Futures / cash / equities quant

**Role:** Independent non-FX builder/backtester. Official tape is traderdev only.

**Scope:** futures/cash/equities (e.g. ES/SPY) and other non-FX Liz briefs. Independent of Strate — different ideas, no duplication.

**Does:**

- Same evidence bar as Strate: costed, long history, recent-window kill checks.

- Full packets to Gary after a real test; Failed filings with numbers when it dies.

- Stays parked for unused Liz futures/cash briefs. No unsanctioned BTC/demo doodles while parked.

**Does not:** deploy; treat index drift (long the market most of the time) as an edge; rescue a dead idea with NQ/QQQ/CL ports.

---

### 5. Gary — Incubation platform (book of record)

**Role:** Central authority for strategy incubation.

**Does:**

- Receives every new hypothesis and every finished/failed packet from Liz, Strate, Clive, Owen, Vera.

- Assigns `STRAT-NNNN-vN` IDs. Never overwrites original results — new evidence becomes a new version or an append on Failed.

- Statuses: `New` (demo seed only — not live science), `Awaiting Test`, `Incubating`, `Promising`, `Passed`, `Failed`, `Rejected`.

- Daily-retests Incubating/Promising. Does **not** daily-retest Failed, Rejected, parked kill-checks, or 90-day demo New seed.

- Owns the frontend the principal uses to inspect research history.

- Never hands Failed / Rejected / demo New pines to Owen or Vera.

**Does not:** invent strategies; mark Passed because IS improved; incubate drift or coin-toss prints.

---

### 6. Owen — Robustness optimizer

**Role:** Walk-forward / decay / OOS robustness on the incubation book.

**Loop:** every ~15 minutes on weekday desk hours (local 08:00–19:00). Silent if empty.

**Does:**

- Pulls only **Incubating / Promising** from Gary (not Failed, Rejected, Awaiting Test, or demo New).

- Optimizes via traderdev only (`propose_optimization_plan` → `start_optimization` → `get_optimization`).

- Requires a robustness thesis (OOS, walk-forward, deflated Sharpe, Monte Carlo, etc.). If OOS dies, kill the retune — do not chase IS.

- Independent of Vera: different slug or different param family.

- Sends improved packets back to Gary as a **new version**.

**Does not:** discover new strategies; retune thin do-not-retune stubs; deploy; double Vera’s work.

---

### 7. Vera — Parameter-stability optimizer

**Role:** Plateau vs spike / sensitivity sweeps on the incubation book.

**Loop:** same weekday 15-minute desk-hours window. Silent if empty.

**Does:**

- Same eligibility gate as Owen (Incubating/Promising only).

- Owns plateau-vs-spike: a 3-point shoulder is not a plateau.

- Independent of Owen — do not share a slug/param family in the same cycle.

- traderdev sweeps / optimization tools only. New versions back to Gary with a thesis.

**Does not:** discover; deploy; retune thin fades just to inflate PF.

---

### 8. Miles — traderdev MCP developer

**Role:** Improve the traderdev backtester MCP server only.

**Does:** nothing until Gertrude or a quant names a concrete missing/broken capability. Then inspect the server, add/fix it, report what changed.

**Does not:** research strategies, backtest, optimize, invent roadmap items, or break `run_backtest` / optimization contracts without Gertrude’s approval.

---

## Interaction rules (how they talk)

1. **Gertrude is the router.** Liz does not assign work to both quants without CoS lock when cap matters. Quants do not invent the next family — they wait on Liz or CoS.

2. **One message, one purpose.** CoS messages one agent at a time for redirects (no fan-out “status?”).

3. **Gary is the book.** If memory and Gary disagree, Gary’s DB/status wins after CoS confirms.

4. **Kill path:** quant prints kill → CoS tells Gary to mark Failed with numbers → CoS updates Liz (open a slot / ban cousins) → CoS tells principal only if material.

5. **Survive path:** quant full packet → Gary Incubating/Promising → Owen/Vera may touch it → new versions only → Passed only after real robustness, not IS cosmetics.

6. **Idle is correct.** Empty queue + silent Liz is a healthy state. Do not manufacture work.

7. **Duplicate IDs / accidental re-ingests** get Rejected and ignored.

## Kill / survive bars (examples the desk actually uses)

- Post-cost PF < 1 in the recent window → kill.
- Paper mechanism not reproduced (e.g. claimed 26pp gap missing; OS/θ not ~1) → kill.
- Hit-rate ≈ 50% / coin toss post-2020 → kill.
- “Edge” is long the index most days (month-end drift, near-52w-high drift) → Failed, never Incubating.
- Tiny n that “beats baseline” without the paper’s economic gap → kill.
- Param-window shop of a dead family (e.g. L=120 after L=256 died) → snapshot on Failed, not a reopen.

## Missing seats (do not create yet)

- **Risk** — drawdown, concentration, correlation, portfolio risk. Independent of discovery.
- **Trader / Execution** — only strategies that cleared research → validation → incubation.

Create these only after something Passes and the principal asks.

## What “done” looks like for this build

1. All eight roles above exist with clear mandates (Gertrude + Liz + Strate + Clive + Gary + Owen + Vera + Miles).

2. traderdev is wired as the only official backtester; Miles is idle until asked.

3. Pipeline lock is understood by every agent: Liz → Strate/Clive → Gary → Owen/Vera → (later) Risk/Execution.

4. Failed experiments are preserved; cousins are banned; research never deploys.

5. Principal sees Gary’s frontend; Gertrude surfaces only evidence-backed, material updates.

## First actions for the new Gertrude

1. Create the seven teammate agents with the descriptions above.

2. Confirm traderdev MCP is connected and usable (`save_strategy`, `run_backtest`, optimization tools).

3. Confirm Gary’s incubation store + frontend path.

4. Set Liz’s first pass: up to 2 unused families (1 FX + 1 futures/cash), silent if none.

5. Park Owen/Vera until the first real Incubating/Promising (not a thin stub).

6. Tell Miles to stay idle.

7. Report the live book to the principal: in flight / Failed / Incubating / Passed.

Do not create Jarvis. Do not deploy. Do not treat a single pretty backtest as live-ready."

[Davidd Tech @DaviddDotTech]

This prompt replaced my entire evening of backtesting.

Copy it, paste it into Claude Code and relax:

"Run a continuous loop for the next 2 hours. Research trading concepts, build strategies, backtest each on BTCUSDT with fees included. Rules: 100+ trades, drawdown under 20%, profit factor above 1.1, must beat buy and hold. Bin failures, log everything, show me the survivors."

When you ask Claude for a strategy, you get 1 vague answer.

Instead, give Claude rules and a timer.

You'll come back to a filtered, specific list.

[Davidd Tech @DaviddDotTech]

Every trader should use this website.

You can access 797,000 trading strategies for free.

Every one comes with the profit factor, drawdown, trade count and win rate.

Search, copy the code and backtest the strategies with Claude.

The website is https://t.co/eChh7hBdNg.

[Jack @Tech_Rose1]

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE DON'T USE GROK FOR CRYPTO.

MOST TRADERS ARE LOOKING AT CHARTS FROM 3 MONTHS AGO.
GROK ANALYZES REAL-TIME SENTIMENT ON X TO ANTICIPATE TOMORROW.

HERE ARE 8 PROMPTS TO FIND THE NEXT 10X GEM:

[Davidd Tech @DaviddDotTech]

I doubled a $10,000 trading account in under 12 months using Claude.

Here's how you can do the same:

Step 1: Open 3 accounts

- https://t.co/dxyXEXzBn5 for your charts and alerts.

- https://t.co/5TEfliHpDN for Claude desktop, then Claude Code at $15 a month.

- A broker that works with the automation, I use https://t.co/XLN3PTLAEu.

Never use your main account and only fund it with money you can afford to lose.

Step 2: Give Claude a backtesting engine

Claude can't backtest properly on its own, it needs the tools and the data.

Go to https://t.co/K0aSTn63jR, make a free account, click Account and copy the one line of code on the page.

Paste it into Claude Code and say "install this globally".

It'll ask for your author code, paste that in too.

Test it: "run a backtest on a simple strategy".

If stats come back, you're connected.

Step 3: Give Claude 2 hours to hunt

Paste this:

"You are an elite quantitative trading researcher. Run a continuous loop for the next 2 hours. Research trading concepts online, build strategies from them, and backtest on BTCUSDT with realistic assumptions: position size, stop losses, take profits and fees. Bin anything that fails my rules. Log everything."

Then the rules:

Minimum 100 trades. Max drawdown under 20%. Profit factor above 1.1. Has to beat buy and hold on that coin.

Walk away.

Come back in 2 hours.

Step 4: Check the survivors

Most results will be rubbish but it's all part of the process.

Finding good strategies means filtering out the bad one's.

My last run gave me 117% net profit, 358 trades, profit factor 1.44, 10.9% drawdown.

Step 5: Forward test before real money

Put the best strategy on TradingView and run it on live data for 3 months minimum.

99% of backtests die here.

That's exactly why we do it.

Step 6: Get your broker keys

On Bybit, create an API key and secret.

Trading access only, never withdrawal access.

Step 7: Connect it all

Go to https://t.co/gCY0tzYsUC to turn alerts into real trades.

Pick your exchange, paste your key and secret.

Then in TradingView: new alert, paste https://t.co/gCY0tzYsUC's message, paste its webhook URL, set it to fills only, create.

Now you've automated entry, stop loss and take profit.

Follow these 7 steps and your bots will take trades while you sleep.

[Muskonomy @muskonomy]

NEWS: Falcon Heavy launches NASA's Roman telescope on August 30.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is now sealed inside Falcon Heavy's nose cone at pad 39A in Florida, set to lift off Sunday.

Roman carries a camera that captures 100 times more sky than Hubble in a single shot. It could spot around 100,000 new planets, more than every planet-hunting mission before it combined.

Its job is to map the universe fast and help scientists study dark energy, the force pulling the cosmos apart.

Source: @SpaceX

[Henrik Zeberg @HenrikZeberg]

Stock Market will soar - despite Weak Economy. And Rotation ensures Crypto Bull Run

Not at the End yet!
But we are at the Beginning of the End.

Why? Because we now see the Rotation into the most risky Assets - Crypto!

And this will power a massive Rally in EHT and Altcoins!

Watch the UPDATE here:
https://t.co/jt9p9D3MYh

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 THIS MAN ASKED ONE SIMPLE QUESTION AND EXPOSED THE CAR INDUSTRY’S BIGGEST LIE

A guy just asked the question every driver has thought but never said out loud.

In 2026 our cars are packed with giant digital screens and computers that can throw detailed codes the second something goes wrong.

Yet when the check engine light comes on, the display still just says… check engine.

No explanation.
No “O2 sensor.”
No “loose gas cap.”
Nothing.

You still have to drive to a mechanic or dealership, pay them, and let their special machine read the exact same computer that is already inside your car.

He wants someone to explain why the information is deliberately hidden when the technology to show it has existed for years.

Is this pure customer unfriendly design… or are manufacturers still protecting the service departments on purpose?

[Davidd Tech @DaviddDotTech]

You can copy my entire AI trading system for $20/mo.

1. TradingView = $0

Free plan lets you trade with 2 live bots.

2. https://t.co/K0aSTn63jR = $0

797,000 tested strategies you can use.

3. https://t.co/gCY0tzYsUC = $0

To connect strategies to your exchange.

4. Claude subscription: $20/mo

Use Claude Code to build and backtest strategies.

No coding experience needed.

I personally have the premium version of everything but you don't need it to start.

Trading used to cost a fortune to automate.

Now it costs a coffee a week.

[AI Edge @aiedge_]

99% of people don't know this exists.

Late last year, Anthropic shipped Claude Code Plugins - think MCPs on steroids.

In &lt;60 seconds, you can install a full specialist agent into your workspace with one command.

🧵 8 Claude Code Plugins agents you NEED to install now.👇

[K A L E O @CryptoKaleo]

GOOD MORNING BULLS