Darkdesk

Algorithmic futures trader. Former CTA. No employees, no clients. It’s fun when it works.

Nothing here is investment advice.

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@YodaStockInvest When I was 25 I had 90% of my assets in managed futures. I came close to failure twice, but ultimately it worked pretty damn well. Take risks when you're young. It pays.

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@Sandeman52 You might read your last 20 posts and evaluate if you are offering value.

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@vooidds There is no dovish case.

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@topsecretstocks I have a half position. I believe I can fill the rest in the mid 10s.

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@clintoptions "The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -John Maynard Keynes

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@GrindeOptions I believe I will get a chance to buy it at a 35 handle

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@YodaStockInvest At least 15 if you’re over 40 with a meaningful stake. If you’re just starting out diversification works against hiu. I was pretty much 100% in spec futures until I was 40.

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@YodaStockInvest I have 200 but I’m weird. And good at big data.

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No I trust them to come up with names given my filters. And to argue between themselves about valuation. I also subscribe to GuruFocus and Seeking Alpha. My databases are fed by APIs including ThinkorSwim, Tradestation, FinnHub, FMP and a couple of others. Once my tables are populated, the research begins. Those are all starting points. I’m a data nerd, I suppose.

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My futures trading is entirely algorithmic, trading stop and limit orders on daily data. 3 independent models are trading across 35 US markets. I run and enter orders before the afternoon open, and usually don’t have to manage anything until the close on the next day. Before the next open I append the new daily data and run and enter the new orders. All programmatically. Takes 5 minutes.

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@YodaStockInvest Years of coding in a database language. You should see my futures trading. 130-150 orders entered every day, algorithmically.

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@TheLongInvest $65.51. Great entry. I own some below but will add there.

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@CKCapitalxx More sellers than buyers.

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@kiantrades Of course you’ll delete it if you’re wrong. That’s what your type does.

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@JosephMcAl69235 @NoLimitGains @grok It’s a screen. Like any other screen, it’s the beginning of the research, not the end.

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@jackfriks @postbridge_ When it's at 6.50 or so I will check it out. But I don't want to know anything about the company until then.

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@Gubloinvestor It's already pretty damn green.

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@vooidds Good time to sell $120 puts.

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@clintoptions I'm an old timer. I was a mortgage securities analyst/portfolio manager in 1986 when the stock market dropped 25% in a day. I lived through the tech wreck, the GFC, covid, and all the lesser disasters between. MOST bull runs are hated.