John F. Carter

INC 500 Entrepreneur (#21 in 2014). Author, Mastering the Trade. Options trader. Unschooler. Member: EO, YPO. Wondering if reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.

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This is a journal recap of my trading last year. Although I didn't trade $GME, I did trade plenty of $TSLA, $AMZN, and $SPX for a 1270%, $18.2M gain. Here's the blog: https://t.co/cEQhliDyUF

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The ultimate short covering rally recipe $SPX

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Me: Sees a new cool AI breakthrough tool, gets excited at the possibilities, gives it to Claude to teardown and see if it would be useful for our workflows.

Claude: No. Once again, do not install it. It solves zero problems we have and would create two new ones.

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Release your attachment to the outcome . . .

[Sorry, I was on mute LOL @IAlwysDrinkBeer]

Arch Manning: “I’m just gonna stop giving a fuck”

Respect

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Tonight I'm launching my 2nd AI-driven options trading workspace. https://t.co/ihzgA7zJzF If you want to check it out.

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@00jbam @simplertrading @henrygambell @Sam_Shames_ 👍

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@bigdog3250 I’m a grok fan I think 5.0 will be the one that makes the big leap.

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Emerging from the end of a year-long AI deep dive into getting agents to do the work for you. Trading research, trade management, intraday actions, RAG files, etc. Where I've landed: Mac mini for cron jobs, Mac Studio for production. Working in Terminal with Fable as the main model, with an orchestration layer (Pug). Codex plans and reviews alongside. Grok tries to break it before anything ships. Curious to hear about other setups and experiences.

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@hansjohnsonlive Nice - playing around with grok bots. I’d set up an orchestrator agent in Claude that mimics Hermes but I should try it out and compare. Also looking at setting up everything to see how it runs on astra.

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@Rickybobby080 it does feel a little like the fox watching the hen house at times . . .

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I recently spent a week at a father/son entrepreneurial program at Babson. During an AI business brainstorming session, sixty teens prompted chat gpt with their business ideas. 15 of the business names and models were identical. The information you get back from AI is the same info everyone else is getting. What makes it unique is you and the input you give based on your own knowledge, experience and ideas. Otherwise you have a plan 10,000 other people also think is a great and unique idea.

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@mrfundman Yes add

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@mrfundman Yaz

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@jedimarkus77 @ScottHamann9 I think they found it today - I set out some eucalyptus leaves just in case it wandered by . . .

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If you are into trading options around earnings - some cool tools, ahas, and strategies:

https://t.co/cZ2BAFeUA3

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12/ None of this is about better prompts. It's about better navigation.

Once you start seeing AI as a high-dimensional map you're moving through — instead of a person you're talking to — the techniques become obvious.

The bottleneck is your mental model.

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"You're navigating concept space, not commanding a consciousness."

This single sentence changed everything about how I interact with AI. And helps to avoid those rabbit holes . . .

10 ways to ask better — 🧵

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11/ The moment you'd give up is the moment to open AI.

That feeling of "I don't know how to figure this out" is exactly the trigger.

Most people Google. Most people ask a friend. Most people just stop. The bottleneck lives in your head, not the model.