Oliver Miles

started trading stocks august 2024

documenting everything

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

how do I long the count binface account

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

@cristo_radio In Florida you can make $500k and pay tax in the teens (between salary and dividends)

In the UK they steal more than half after NI

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Amazing abundance for all!

[John Galt @BristolGalt]

If a British government passed a law so that only Native British people had access to welfare, free healthcare, etc, we’d save around £350 billion per year

We could pay off the national debt in 10 years

By 2037, including debt interest savings, we’d have a surplus of around half a £trillion

Just to put that into perspective, we could literally give every single young Brit £1million on their 18th birthday

Or we could abolish income tax and still have £170,000,000,000 left over to spend on our people every year

We could live in paradise, debt-free, if we simply weren’t giving free stuff to foreigners.

[Kai Cabero @kai_cabero]

I know someone who got rich by hiring attractive female "researchers" to cold call founders and pretend to be conducting an industry study...

She's not a researcher. There is no study. There is no institution behind the calls

But when a 23 year old girl with a polished voice says "Hi, I'm conducting a brief industry study on [founder's exact niche] for a research firm. Can I ask you 4 quick questions about your current vendor stack?" founders answer every single time

The 4 questions are:

1. "What tools are you currently using for [category]?" (Now you know their stack)
2. "What's been your biggest frustration with your current setup?" (Now you know their pain)
3. "If budget wasn't a factor, what would your ideal solution look like?" (Now you know their dream state)
4. "Would you be open to hearing about solutions that specifically address the issues you mentioned?" (Now you have permission to pitch)

By question 4, the founder has voluntarily handed over their entire buying criteria, their current pain, and their budget psychology. And they think they just helped a grad student with a thesis

The "researcher" thanks them, hangs up, and passes the intel to the cold email team who sends a hyper-specific email 48 hours later

"[first name] - we work with [niche] companies that are dealing with [the exact frustration they mentioned on the call]. most teams we talk to say the same thing about [their current vendor]. we fix that specific problem in 21 days. quick loom?"

The founder replies because the email describes their exact situation with creepy precision. They don't connect it to the "research call" from 2 days ago. They think this company just really understands their market

She runs 4 "researchers" doing 30 calls/day each. 120 calls. 80-90 answered. 60+ complete the 4 questions. Intel on 60 companies per day fed directly into cold email

$127,000/mo from pretending to conduct academic research that doesn't exist

The girls get paid $2,200/mo each. The intel they generate closes $127K. And every founder who got "studied" thinks they helped a nice girl with her dissertation

He called it "weaponised politeness" which made me laugh and then feel bad about laughing

People will say the play is deceptive. Sure

But the cold email they receive afterwards genuinely solves a real problem they genuinely have. They just don't know how you found out about it

The research was real. The institution was fake. The revenue is very real

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[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

Many of these yachts cost $80 - $150k per week to rent

You don’t need to be a billionaire to rent a 120 foot yacht

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

These people don't appear on any published rich list.

The shadows and gutters of global finance are filled with anonymous billionaires, heirs, and villains.

And we don't have a clue.

[Quant Science @quantscience_]

🚨 Hedge fund managers are going to hate this. Someone just open sourced a system that does their entire job.

30.5% annualized returns. $0 in fees.

It's called TradingAgents.

Not one AI agent. An entire simulated trading firm. Analysts, researchers, traders, and risk managers. All AI. All arguing with each other before making a single trade.

No Bloomberg Terminal. No $50K data feeds. No MBA required.

Here's what's inside this thing:

→ 4 AI analysts scanning financials, news, social sentiment, and technicals
→ A Bull and Bear researcher that literally debate each other
→ A trader that synthesizes every argument into a final call
→ A risk management team that can veto any trade
→ A fund manager that approves or rejects execution

Here's the wildest part:

It beat every traditional trading strategy they benchmarked. Cumulative returns. Sharpe ratio. Max drawdown. All of them.

Hedge funds charge 2% management + 20% performance fees for this exact workflow. This is free.

100% Open Source.

Grab it here: https://t.co/VMx7hM62bT

🚨Want to learn Algorithmic Trading Strategies (that actually work)?

On June 25th, we are hosting a free workshop to help you get started with algorithmic trading with Python.

Register here (500 seats): https://t.co/uBk2SeORef

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

@Berry_cooool Auto

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

longing restore to win makerfield feels exactly like buying altcoins in 2016

[Jim Cognito @JimCognito2016]

Latest Makerfield polling that Reform are trying to suppress:

🌹 Labour 34%
➡️ Reform 30%
🇬🇧 Restore 16%
🟢 Green 9%
🔵 Con 5%
🟠 Lib Dem 5%
⚪️ Other 1%

Via leaked polling, 1200 sample, May 22-24

This explains the stepped up attacks on Restore by Reform over the weekend.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Even more desperately vicious Reform attacks on Restore Britain men and women today. What does that tell you?

Their internal Makerfield data matches what we are finding.

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

betting on restore britain to win makerfield feels the same as buying a pudgy penguin NFT when it first launched

enormous twitter momentum and growing trend

at 20-1 feels like a reasonable bet

will they win? maybe
will the odds increase from 20-1 to 5-1? likely

[Ac Hampton @HamptonAc_]

traits of people with high agency:

> book flights impulsively
> say "call me" instead of texting essays
> can become obsessed overnight
> walk around during phone calls
> buy before they feel ready
> don’t ask group chats for opinions
> can survive on very little comfort
> good at talking to strangers
> slightly delusional
> treat embarrassment like a temporary side effect
> can disappear socially without feeling guilty
> low tolerance for slow people
> thinks most problems are figureoutable
> dangerously optimistic
> oddly calm when things go wrong

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

put £500 on restore to win makerfield by eletion

feels like a good risk to reward

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

@LibertyCappy Takikistan is western but Georgia isn’t?

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

@vrexec You should be quiet and respectful to your neighbours

Some people cant afford to live in the countryside

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

@2147mill And most employers cover the medical insurance anyway

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

@2147mill In the US you pay about $400/mo for medical insurance

But under $50k salary it drops to $100/mo

In return you get taxed in the single digits or teens

In florida at $100k salary and $400k you pay 18%

And their health care system is world class

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

@TheMattViera All the beaches in bali are horrible

Covered in trash, black sand, polluted air, waves in canggu too big to swim

[Oliver Miles @portertrades]

@gabyvivassa If you make $500k in Florida

You pay 18% tax

($100k salary, $400k dividends)

Have tried bali, Thailand, Mexico. Better to live in a first world country.