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Retail typically blows up because of poor position sizing
Today’s prop firms largely eliminate this problem
Optimal strat to run props is inverse to professional risk management rules on real capital
Successful directional traders who transition to options have an enormous advantage IMO
Trading options intelligently is more capital intensive, no doubt...
But it is far superior to just playing checkers like most retail do
IF CLAUDE/AI IS SO USEFUL, WHY ARENT PNLS GOING UP?
I just made an important point on the @smbcapital call. You can’t go a day without reading tweets about traders using Claude. For 6 months now, Claude has been the talk of many trader calls. Yet from what I’ve seen, it’s not translating to pnl for most traders.
Why?
Because almost always, more data and information is NOT the constraint. The traders that outperformed in April did so because of their systems and execution.
It isn’t that Claude and AI shouldn’t be used or isn’t at all useful. But AI and Claude can become a distraction AWAY from the actions and changes that actually matter and translate into PNL.
If I were a betting man, Claude might have improved workflows for traders, but net, it has probably reduced trader pnl through distraction away from what matters.
The perpetual rebranding cycle is genuinely impressive to watch. ICT content finally died ( can't sell any courses ), so now we’re suddenly learning about concepts from the 80s , everyones a OF goat , everyones using Rajdeep Charts because thats obviously the superior platform to trade on ( rope ) . Everyones using bubbles cause they saw a guy making money on a shit skins podcast. Mechanical strats defo work , don't even question it , your pre frontal will get fried.
Addressing the Tradovate email that went out this evening:
We did not throw any punches at Tradovate on the way out, unfortunately they have not done the same, and have made an ambiguous statement regarding funds over due. We were prepared to just split ways but now are forced to provide more insight to the situation that should have been private but has since been made public by NinjaTrader.
Alpha raised a dispute with Ninja in November 2025 on believing current invoice structure lead to over $2.4M in overcharges.
We were not happy with the outcome of the disputes, but settled in cash from Alpha and credits from Ninja in Feb 2026. An amount of $225,700 was left in limbo during this settlement to what we believed to be credit.
After all payments were made in cash by Alpha in February 2026, the understanding over the next few months was as long as all invoices were paid in full on time, the partnership would continue, which we have done on every month following (including this month) At this time, all conversations changed to only revolving around AlphaTrader and Ninja’s concerns on both platforms co-existing.
All payments have been made on time, the one most recently being $1.2M paid on July 6, 2026. (as shown with proof here in this post)
There was no further mention of this additional “outstanding balance” until 30 days ago via email, to which Alpha responded asking for clarity as we believed this amount was part of the credit applied and resolved with the settlement and continued partnership.
We received no reply for 25 days until the termination notice sent to us on July 9th last week.
Alpha representatives asked what the path forward was with this requested payment of $225,700 was, to which Ninja replied the services would be terminated regardless of the payment being made or not and we would not be able to create accounts on ninja trader during the next 90 days starting on July 12, 2026. So, per their termination and instructions we removed it from our site that day.
To be clear, we have paid all invoices, including the last month in full of $1.2M.
Our termination was due to an unhealthy relationship rooted in our development of AlphaTrader as was detailed to us in our termination.
The thread below shows further details on invoices and proof of payments.