@kyledav50941622@WatcherGuru Yes, been trading futures before electronic order books existed. It wasn’t a market order, 7990 lots was the aggregated volume over that period. HFT will piggyback any large displacement in price, and market makers will pull book liquidity. Volatility interrupts will follow.
@NoLimitGains If you have ever traded futures you know they are zero sum. So ‘someone’ bot 7990 lots as well. These things are nuanced. Was the seller opening a position, was it one entity, was it algos? You can’t just say ‘someone’ without those details. It is just volume and direction.
@WatcherGuru Futures are zero sum right? Why not report the other side of the trade where someone bot 7990 lots. Is that volume abnormal for futures at that time of the day. These things are nuanced and details matter.
I post a lot about the people I shadow
Never posted about someone who shadows me
He's there every morning before I log on
Every late night when I'm the last one in the building
He doesn't cc leadership when I mess up
Just quietly covers the balance
Every quarter I've come up short, he absorbs the liability himself
Never once asked for anything in return
So I finally looked at the terms
The buyer acquired 100% of the liability
The seller brought nothing to the table
And the buyer still closed
Unconditional
Turns out he signed it before I even knew there was a deal
My analyst tried to model the return
Said it doesn't work on a spreadsheet
Said the whole thesis is based on something he can't quantify
Told him welcome to the deal
Happy Easter
When God said to Adam and Eve that they would die if they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, He did not lie. When you understand immortality, you understand time, and when you understand time, you understand what actually happened in the garden. Why did Satan and the other fallen angels receive such a harsh punishment? Because they essentially killed God's children. You will live a life here on earth, but eventually you die and its a short life. 100 years is not even a long time in comparison to the eternity you were meant to live. God came in the flesh to die a single death so that you can be immortal again with Him after judgment.
You really should think about your time here on earth as a serious thing.
To waste any of it on the fleeting pleasures of sin is diabolically disrespectful.
Do you know by 45, life has already answered you. Not with words, but with outcomes.
At 45, you are no longer becoming. You have largely become. Your finances, health, relationships, and reputation are no longer promises. They are evidence.
This is the age where self deception collapses. You can’t keep blaming your parents, your country, your spouse, or bad luck.
Because by now, you have made enough choices to own where you stand.
By 45, time is no longer theoretical.
You feel it in your knees, your back, your energy levels, and your recovery time.
You realize youth was not just age. It was resilience you did not respect.
At this stage, regret becomes loud.
Not the dramatic kind, but the quiet ones.
The calls you never returned.
The skills you postponed learning.
The risks you were too comfortable to take.
By 45, your children, or the absence of them, mirror your priorities.
Your marriage, or lack of peace in it, reflects how well you learned emotional discipline.
Your friendships are fewer, because tolerance for nonsense is gone.
This is also when money tells the most honest story.
Not income, but preparedness.
If work stops today, how long can you breathe without panic.
At 45, that answer matters more than titles.
By this age, people stop listening to your explanations.
They watch how you live.
You are either a reference point or a warning.
Your health is no longer forgiving.
Every ignored checkup.
Every year of stress without rest.
Every habit you told yourself you would fix later.
Later has arrived.
At 45, dreams that survived discipline look powerful. Dreams that survived excuses look childish.
You now understand that hope without structure is cruelty to yourself.
This is the age where legacy quietly replaces ambition.
You start thinking less about applause and more about impact.
Less about proving, more about leaving something solid behind.
By 45, life stops negotiating.
It simply enforces the consequences of earlier decades.
And the most painful realization is this. Most people did not fail because life was unfair. They failed because they delayed honesty with themselves.
At 45, peace becomes the real currency. And you either earned it through discipline, foresight, and humility. Or you spend the rest of your years trying to explain why you don’t have it.