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[Livsun @L1vsun]

a russian mathematician solved trading in 1906

wall street found the paper 70 years later, built billion-dollar funds around it, never mentioned it to retail

andrei markov proved markets aren't random - they're state machines

trending, ranging, reversing - each state has a fixed historical probability of shifting to the next

build a transition matrix from real data:

trending -> stays trending: 68%
trending -> flips to range: 21%
trending -> reverses: 11%

now you're not predicting direction. you're entering on 68% historical completion

identify your state, size with kelly, take the trade when math says yes

that's the edge. the whole edge

renaissance has run this since 1988. 37 years of 66% annual returns

paper is free, data is free, implementation is 200 lines of python

Bookmark and use in your own strategy

they kept you staring at candles while they ran probability tables

[Alex @de1lymoon]

Jane Street pays $700K/year for quants who model price as a sequence of states instead of guessing direction

This 1-hour MIT lecture on "Markov Chains" gives you the same edge quants get paid $58K/month for

Bookmark & watch today. Then read the article below

[Gavin | Options Trading IQ @OptiontradinIQ]

I'll never forget selling puts on Vistaprint right before earnings. Everything looked great — good premium, high probability, solid setup.

Then the stock dropped 30% overnight and my "safe trade" turned into a very expensive lesson.

After 21 years of trading options, I can tell you that selling puts is one of the most powerful strategies available.

But there are real risks most educators conveniently leave out because they're too busy showing you their winning trades.

In this video, you'll learn all six of them and how to protect yourself from each one.

Watch the Video:

https://t.co/DEOPYdDGbC

[st1ne @SolSt1ne]

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin explained on camera where global capital is repositioning over the next 4 years - "America is open for business again"

the man running a $65B hedge fund publicly broke down the tariff playbook, the crypto repricing, and where the smart money is moving right now

33-min at the NYT DealBook Summit and you'll see how a top GOP megadonor actually positions around a presidency

bookmark & watch - the rare interview where a Wall Street whale speaks plainly about his own bets

[Michael | Hypermarkets @itsmichaelluu]

CEO $NVDA says to buy sustainable energy stocks.

$ENLT is the strongest with price target $400+ Its spiked $15 to $90 for 600% already.

Right now, these 16 stocks have the exact set-up:

1. $PLUG — Price: ~$3.76 | Target: $30
Green hydrogen fuel cells deliver clean, on-site backup power for AI data centers bypassing overloaded grids entirely.

2. $FLNC — Price: ~$20 | Target: $65
Grid-scale battery storage keeps renewable power stable and uninterrupted for 24/7 AI data center operations.

3. $ARRY — Price: ~$10 | Target: $40
Solar tracking systems maximize output at utility farms directly powering AI data center campuses nationwide.

4. $SHLS — Price: ~$10 | Target: $32
Electrical balance-of-system components connect large solar farms to the grid that powers AI infrastructure.

5. $RUN — Price: ~$14.00 | Target: $50
Distributed home solar and storage cuts grid strain during peak AI-driven electricity demand surges.

6. $CSIQ — Price: ~$17.87 | Target: $80
Utility-scale solar modules and grid-scale battery storage systems feed clean power into AI-hungry electrical grids.

7. $BEP — Price: ~$35 | Target: $200
Global hydro, wind, solar & nuclear operator $BE
partnered with Bloom Energy in a $5B deal to co-build AI power factories.

8. $CWEN — Price: ~$38 | Target: $120
10+ GW of contracted wind, solar & storage sells clean baseload power directly to hyperscaler data centers.

9. $JKS — Price: ~$25.00 | Target: $50
One of the world's largest solar manufacturers supplying panels to utility farms feeding the AI power grid.

10. $DQ — Price: ~$20.00 | Target: $35
Polysilicon feedstock producer enabling solar panel manufacturing that powers AI data center campus buildouts.

11. $HASI — Price: ~$42 | Target: $80
Finances solar, wind & storage projects supplying contracted clean power directly to AI data center operators.

12. $EOSE — Price: ~$8 | Target: $24
Long-duration zinc batteries solve renewable intermittency enabling always-on clean power for non-stop AI workloads.

My top 3 favorite ones to buy and hold would be $PLUG, $ENLT and $BEP since they have a deal with $BE.

BONUS, I really like $ENPH (look how beaten down it is) at $53. It could run towards $300+ again.

♻️RESHARE this post and make 1 comment for my list of sustainable energy companies under $10. There's only 5 good ones like $PLUG to choose from.

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

The 4-hour candle you're trading inside already decided if your trade will work or not

Not your entry. Not your setup. Not your "confirmation"

The candle itself. Before you even opened the 5-minute chart

95% of retail traders never check this. They go straight to the lower timeframe and start looking for setups. The 5% who fractalize the higher timeframe candle first already know if the day supports expansion before the market opens

Here's what nobody teaches you:

Every candle on every timeframe has two phases. A protraction phase and an expansion phase

The protraction phase forms the wick. The expansion phase forms the body

That's not just how candles look. That's how they FUNCTION. The wick is manipulation - price moving in the wrong direction to grab liquidity. The body is the real move - price expanding toward the draw on liquidity

And here's the part that changes everything:

A candle only has so much time. If it spends half its time in protraction - forming a large wick - it doesn't have enough time left to expand. The body will be small. Any setup inside that candle will chop you to death

If it spends almost no time in protraction - small wick - the body has the full candle to form. That's an expansion candle. That's where your setups actually work

This one observation eliminates 40% of losing trades before you enter

But wick size alone isn't enough. HOW the candle forms matters even more:

A bullish expansion candle opens low first. Open -> low -> high -> close. Fluid motion. Minimum time in protraction. Maximum time expanding. The body forms in one smooth push

A bullish candle that opens high first and THEN drops low is a negative condition. Even if the wick ends up small. Too much time wasted. The candle moved in the wrong direction first. That's seek and destroy. That's chop. That's where your "clean 5-minute setup" dies

You need both: small wick AND opens in the right direction

When you have both, you're inside an expansion candle. PD arrays get respected. Gaps hold. Opposing candles support price. The lower timeframe prints clean signatures because the higher timeframe is giving it permission to expand

When you don't have both - none of that works. Gaps get blown through. Order blocks fail. The V-shape doesn't form. Price just sits in your entry zone and wicks you out. Not because the setup was wrong. Because the candle didn't support the move

Now fractalize this:

What happens on the daily candle happens on the 4-hour inside it. What happens on the 4-hour happens on the 1-hour inside that. Same protraction and expansion phases. Same wick logic. Same profile rules. All the way down

So when the daily candle is an expansion candle - the 4-hour candles inside it will be expansion candles. Those 4-hour expansion candles leave fair value gaps. Those gaps are where the 1-hour and 30-minute form their lows. And those lows are confirmed by swing formations

Models inside models. Every timeframe confirming the one above it

But when the daily candle is a reversal candle - the 4-hour candles inside it will be choppy. The gaps won't hold. The opposing candles won't support price. The lower timeframe looks "messy" because the higher timeframe never gave permission for a clean move

That's phases of price:

EXPANSION → candles have small wicks. Gaps get respected. PD arrays hold. Opposing candles support price in one direction. Everything works. Your setups hit. You feel like a genius

RETRACEMENT → the expansion exhausted itself. Price needs to retrace into internal range liquidity. Gaps still hold but the move is counter-trend. Smaller targets. Less conviction. This is where overtrading kills you because you try to trade expansion targets during a retracement phase

CONSOLIDATION → no expansion. No direction. Candles have overlapping bodies. Large wicks in both directions. PD arrays fail because there's no commitment from institutions. This is where 60% of your losses come from. Because you see "setups" that aren't setups. They're noise inside a consolidation candle that doesn't support anything

REVERSAL → price hits a key level with SMT. The protraction phase ends. A new expansion phase begins in the opposite direction. The first candle of the reversal has a small wick and opens in the new direction. NOW your setups work again

The cycle repeats: expansion → retracement → consolidation → reversal → expansion

And at every stage, the candle profile tells you which phase you're in BEFORE you look for a setup

How I use this every morning:

6:00 AM - open the daily chart. Is yesterday's candle an expansion candle or a reversal candle? Does TODAY's candle support continuation? Small wick forming? Opening in the right direction?

6:02 AM - drop to the 4-hour. Same questions. Is the current 4-hour candle supporting expansion? Or is it a reversal candle with a large wick that I should skip?

6:05 AM - if both daily AND 4-hour support expansion in the same direction - I'm trading today. If either one doesn't - I close the laptop

That takes 5 minutes. Before 9:30 even opens I already know:

Whether to trade or sit out (candle profile)
What phase the market is in (expansion, retracement, consolidation, reversal)
Whether PD arrays will be respected today (only in expansion)
Whether gaps will hold (only when the candle supports it)

The entry itself - the gap, the sweep, the V-shape - that comes later. That's the easy part

The hard part is knowing whether the candle you're inside supports the trade BEFORE you take it

Most traders skip this step entirely. They look at the 5-minute and see a "setup." They enter. They get chopped up for 3 hours. They blame the strategy

The strategy was fine. The candle didn't support it. The phase of price didn't support it. They were trying to trade expansion inside a consolidation candle

That's not a bad setup. That's a setup in the wrong environment

Fractalize the candle before you fractalize the entry

Check if the house supports the furniture before you start decorating

Or keep placing trades inside candles that were never going to expand and wondering why nothing works

Your choice

(I teach candle profiling and phase identification inside my free Discord. Live every morning before the open. Link in bio.

If you think you're good fit - DM me "SYSTEM" for 1-on-1 coaching, i only accept 1-2 traders to work fully private with)

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

go pull up the 6AM candle on your chart right now

this one candle predicts the entire New York session direction

and almost nobody uses it

a guy in my discord called 14 out of 15 trading days correctly last month using only this

here's the exact system:

THE 6AM REVERSAL SIGNATURE:

at 6AM EST, institutions show their hand

they either:
- push price into a key level (reversal incoming)
- expand away from a level (continuation day)

the 6AM candle tells you WHICH

STEP 1: mark yesterday's high and low

STEP 2: at 6AM, watch where price trades relative to those levels

STEP 3: if 6AM sweeps a level but CLOSES back inside the range = reversal day

STEP 4: if 6AM expands and closes BEYOND the level = trend day

STEP 5: check the correlated asset. this is where it goes from good to undeniable

pull up NQ and ES side by side (or gold and silver, EUR and GBP - whatever you trade)

did BOTH assets sweep the same level at 6AM? or did one sweep while the other didn't?

both swept and closed back inside -> strong reversal signal. both assets agree. trade it with confidence

one swept, the other didn't -> even stronger. that's SMT. a crack in correlation. the asset that swept grabbed liquidity. the one that refused was already telling you the reversal is real before the candle even closed

one swept and the other closed in the OPPOSITE direction -> that's a two-stage SMT. strength switch. the highest probability confirmation you can have at 6AM. the direction isn't just "likely." it's confirmed across two independent assets

no crack at all, both assets just expanding through -> continuation day. don't fight it. only trade in that direction

that's it.

EXAMPLES:

6AM sweeps yesterday's high on NQ, closes back below it. you check ES - ES didn't even reach the high. crack in correlation. bearish day confirmed -> sell the rip at 9:30

6AM sweeps yesterday's low on gold, closes back above it. you check silver - silver swept the same low but closed bearish while gold closed bullish. strength switch. two-stage SMT -> buy the dip at 9:30 with maximum conviction

6AM breaks high and closes above with momentum on both assets -> no crack. continuation. only look for longs

most traders show up at 9:30 with no bias

they're "reacting to price action"

aka gambling

smart traders showed up at 6AM

they checked the candle AND the correlated asset

they already know the direction AND how confident to be in it

the 9:30 open is just their entry window

THIS IS THE EDGE:

institutions set up the move between 6-9:30

retail shows up at 9:30 and provides the exit liquidity

you can either BE the liquidity

or you can TAKE the liquidity

the 6AM candle tells you the direction

the correlated asset tells you if it's real

together they tell you which side you're on before the market even opens

go backtest it. 30 days. both assets side by side. track the results

you'll never trade blind again

(free discord in bio. if you think you're a good fit - DM me "SYSTEM" for 1-on-1 coaching. i only take on 1-2 traders at a time to work with fully private)

[junkbondinvestor @junkbondinvest]

This interview reminds me of this 😂

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

I reverse-engineered every prop firm's risk rules and found they're all testing the SAME psychological weakness

Not your strategy. Your impulse control during losing streaks.

Here's the prop firm psychology exploit that turns 30% pass rates into 80% pass rates:

Most traders think prop challenges test:
- strategy quality
- entry accuracy
- how well you "read the market"

Wrong

Prop firms test ONE thing:

Can you follow a system when your brain is screaming at you to abandon it?

Here's what they discovered about trader psychology:

Traders who pass: made ALL decisions before the session opened
Traders who fail: made decisions while staring at a red P&L

The difference isn't skill. It's WHEN you decide

And I'm going to show you exactly what those pre-session decisions look like using the system I trade every single day:

THE PRE-SESSION PROTOCOL:

PHASE 1: THE NIGHT BEFORE (10 minutes)

Before charts even open:

Decision 1: Is tomorrow a trading day?

Check the daily candle. Is the wick small? Is it opening in the right direction? If the daily candle is a reversal candle with a large wick — tomorrow is NOT an expansion day. Write it down: NO TRADE TOMORROW

This eliminates 30-40% of days before you even wake up. Days the 90% will trade and lose on. Days YOU skip because the candle already told you

Decision 2: What did the previous session do?

If London reversed - your job tomorrow is continuation from a gap. Write it down: CONTINUATION DAY -LONGS/SHORTS ONLY

If nobody reversed - your job is to catch the New York reversal. Write it down: REVERSAL DAY - WAIT FOR 9:30 SWEEP

Decision 3: Where is the gap?

Mark the fair value gap from the previous session's expansion. Is it within the upper half of the previous 4-hour candle's range? Is it close proximity to the opening price? If yes — that's tomorrow's entry zone. Write it down with the exact price

If there's no gap in the right zone - NO TRADE TOMORROW. Write it down

Decision 4: Where is the target?

Mark the next relevant swing. NOT the nearest swing. The relevant one - the extreme with valid separation and no failure swings blocking it. Write it down with the exact price

Is the target at least 2.5R from the gap entry? If not - NO TRADE. The math doesn't work

Decision 5: Risk

0.5% per trade on challenges. Non-negotiable. Write it down. Not 1%. Not "I'll adjust based on how confident I feel." 0.5%. Written. Done

All 5 decisions made the night before. When you're calm. When your P&L isn't flashing red. When your brain can think past the next 5 minutes

PHASE 2: THE SESSION (90 minutes maximum)

6:00 AM: check the 6AM candle. Does it confirm what you wrote last night?

Sweep a key level and close back inside = reversal day confirmed ✓
Expand through a level = continuation day confirmed ✓
Chop with no clear move = day cancelled. close the laptop. doesn't matter what you wrote last night. the 6AM candle overrides

9:15 AM: open the correlated assets. NQ. ES. YM. All three side by side

9:30 AM: market opens. price approaches the key level you marked last night

This is the moment. This is what the prop firm is testing

Check: did all three assets sweep the level? Or did one sweep while the others didn't?

All three swept → no crack → no entry yet → WAIT
One swept, others didn't → crack in correlation → the sweep is fake → prepare for reversal
YM closes opposite direction at the key level → strength switch → THIS is your entry signal

Now drop to the 5-minute. Wait for the V-shape. Expansion into the level. Displacement candle. New gap forms

V-shape present → enter the gap. stop behind the sweep. target the relevant swing you marked last night
No V-shape → NO ENTRY. choppy PA at the level. the reversal isn't confirmed. capital preserved

10:00-10:30 AM: either in profit, stopped out, or no trade

Either way - laptop closes

There is no second session. There is no "let me check one more time." There is no afternoon trade. The protocol says 90 minutes. The protocol doesn't care how you feel

PHASE 3: POST-SESSION (2 minutes)

□ Did the candle profile support today's trade? Y/N
□ Did I confirm the session direction before entering? Y/N
□ Did I check all three correlated assets? Y/N
□ Was the gap in the right zone? Y/N
□ Did I wait for the V-shape? Y/N
□ Did I maintain 0.5% risk? Y/N

If all YES → system working. doesn't matter if the trade won or lost
If any NO → identify which filter you skipped and WHY

The prop firm exploit:

The prop firm bet is simple: "this trader will abandon their system after 3 losses"

And 90% do. Here's the sequence they're counting on:

Day 1-5: trader follows rules. doing well. +3.2%
Day 6: first losing day. -0.5%. fine
Day 7: second losing day. -0.5%. frustrating
Day 8: third losing day. -0.5%. now at +1.7% with a 3% drawdown limit

This is the moment. Day 8. Three losses in a row. The math still works. 0.5% risk means you can absorb 6 losses total. You've only used 3. The system is fine

But the trader's brain says:

"I need to make this back"
"the gap looked close enough to the right zone"
"I don't need to check YM today, NQ is clearly going up"
"I'll skip the V-shape, the level is too clean to miss"

One filter skipped. One unconfirmed entry. 1.5R loss instead of 0.5R because the stop was moved

Day 9: revenge trade. another 1R loss. now at -0.3% total. drawdown limit at 3%

Day 10: sizes up to "get back." 2% risk instead of 0.5%. loses. -2.3% in one trade

Day 11: blown

The system didn't fail. The protocol was abandoned on Day 8

Every single filter said NO TRADE on the Day 8 revenge entry:
- candle profile: large wick. didn't support expansion
- correlated assets: no divergence. no crack
- gap: deep in the range. past equilibrium
- V-shape: no displacement. choppy PA

All 4 filters said no. the trader said yes. because his emotions overrode his protocol

The defense:

You WILL want to break the protocol on Day 8

That's guaranteed

The question isn't "will I feel the urge?"

The question is "can I physically prevent myself from acting on it?"

The protocol makes it physical:

- decisions written the night before on paper. taped to the monitor
- each filter checked with a pen before entry. unchecked box = no trade
- platform set to close after 1 trade. there IS no revenge trade
- phone on airplane mode during session. no Discord. no Twitter. no "what do you guys think about this setup?"

You can't break rules that are physically enforced

The traders passing 8/10 challenges:

Pre-session protocol. Every decision made calm. Filters checked with a pen. One trade. Laptop closes

The traders failing 8/10 challenges:

"I'll be disciplined in real-time"

No you won't

Your brain can't handle pressure decisions. Nobody's can. That's not weakness. That's biology

Stop trying to be disciplined during chaos

Start making every decision during calm

Then execute like a robot

The prop firms don't want you to know this. Their entire business model relies on you making emotional decisions on Day 8

When you remove emotional decision-making, you pass

And they pay out

Because that's the game

(free discord in bio. if you think you're a good fit - DM me "SYSTEM" for 1-on-1 coaching. i only take on 1-2 traders at a time to work with fully private)

[Vinod @BoxTraderVK]

$TSLA

There are lot of nuances to this set up/strategy

BUT

Once you learn its nothing short of Magic

$TSLA Perfect example how this works when it WORKS

of course, NOTHING IS PERFECT in Trading.

[Coach Mak | Know Your Money @WealthCoachMak]

If you are not using back up trades to protect your main trades…

You need to learn it

This is what makes options trading really flexible

A couple of examples:

- If your Covered Call is in trouble, use Put Credit Spreads to pay for the debits that you might take in your rolls

- If your Iron Condor goes against you, use a broken winged butterfly to protect the troubled side

So many ways to play options

Takes years to master them

But gotta start somewhere

[matae @mataetrades]

Lots of interest in credit spreads. I posted this one here on X for gas money. Turn notifications on for future cash flow ideas. $SPY $SPX

Comment below if you want a review on WHY I placed this trade.

https://t.co/nXctQnoYze

[Trade With Insight @twinsight_x]

Let's go, Colty! Have a great weekend 🔥

$SNDK $TSLA $QQQ $MSFT

[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

I mass-failed 7 prop firm challenges before I did this math

then I mass-passed 6 in a row

the math changed everything:

WHAT I WAS DOING:

$100k challenge, 6% profit target = need $6,000 profit
3% max loss = $3,000 drawdown limit
30 day window

I was trying to make $6,000 as fast as possible

"let me just size up and knock this out in 2 weeks"

took 6-8 trades per day. traded every session. forced entries on candles that didn't support expansion. entered gaps that were deep in the range. traded against the session profile. ignored SMT divergences

failed 7 times in a row on drawdown violations

THE MATH I FINALLY DID:

$100k account
6% profit target = $6,000
3% max loss = $3,000 drawdown limit
30 day window

$6,000 ÷ 30 days = $200/day needed

but wait

I don't need to trade every day

let's say I trade 12 days out of 30

$6,000 ÷ 12 trading days = $500/day needed

at 0.5% risk per trade ($500 risk):

$500 ÷ $500 = 1R per trading day

I need 1R on the days I trade

not five winners. not three. one good trade per session

if I'm targeting 2.5-3R per winner, I only need to win 3-4 trades the entire month

and the 3% drawdown limit? that's 6 full losses at 0.5% risk before I'm out. six. if I'm only taking 7-10 trades the entire month, I'd have to lose almost every single one to hit the drawdown

THE SYSTEM THAT PASSES CHALLENGES:

every morning before 9:30 I already know if today is a trading day or not

step 1: check the 4-hour candle profile

does the wick support expansion? if the 4-hour candle has a large wick, it's not going to expand. don't trade it. the next candle will expand. close the laptop. that's a no-trade day

is it opening in the right direction? bullish candle should open low first. bearish candle should open high first. if it opens the wrong way, that's a negative condition. close the laptop

this one filter eliminates 40% of days immediately. days that would have been losses. days that would have chipped away at your drawdown while you convinced yourself "the setup was there"

step 2: check the session profile

if the previous session reversed, this session continues from a gap. I know the direction before 9:30 opens

if nobody reversed, I'm waiting for the 9:30 sweep and reversal. the 6AM candle already confirmed which type of day it is

if the 4H chart didn't do anything clean and just chopped around - no-trade day. laptop closed

step 3: check the correlated assets

NQ makes a new high at 9:37. I check ES. I check YM. did they both follow?

both followed → no divergence → I wait. breakout might be real but I don't have my confirmation yet

NQ swept but YM didn't → crack in correlation → the sweep is fake → I'm looking for the reversal entry

this takes 10 seconds. it saved me from 11 fake breakouts last month alone

step 4: find the gap

not just any gap. the gap within the upper half of the previous 4-hour candle's range. close proximity to the candle's opening price. that's where the low of the next candle forms. that's my entry zone

if there's no gap in the right zone - no trade

step 5: confirm with the V-shape

price hits the gap. do I see expansion in, displacement out, new gap forming? that's the V-shape. that's my confirmation

no V-shape = no entry. doesn't matter how clean the level looks

step 6: enter. stop behind the sweep. target the next relevant swing. the one with valid separation and no failure swings blocking it

that's 1 trade. done by 10:30. close the laptop

THE RESULTS:

day 1-4: no trades. candle profile didn't support expansion on 3 of those days. one day had no session reversal and no clean 6AM confirmation. capital preserved
day 5: +2.4R ($1,200)
day 6-8: no trades
day 9: +1.8R ($900)
day 10: -1R (-$500)
day 11-13: no trades
day 14: +2.9R ($1,450)

after 14 days: +$4,850 (4.85%)

only took 4 trades. only traded 4 days. 10 days I closed the laptop before 10AM

continued this pace:
- passed on day 22
- total trades taken: 7
- total trading days: 7
- final P&L: +6.8%

7 trades in 22 days. that's it. that's what passed a $100k challenge

WHAT MOST TRADERS DO WRONG:

they think the challenge is about TRADING

it's not

it's about NOT TRADING

the challenge is designed to make you overtrade

the profit target feels urgent
the clock feels like pressure
the drawdown limit feels tight

so you trade more. enter gaps that aren't aligned. skip the session profile. ignore the SMT. chase setups on candles that don't support expansion

and you blow it

the winners trade LESS

they check the candle profile. wrong profile = no trade
they check the session. no reversal = no trade
they check the correlated assets. no divergence = no trade
they check the gap alignment. wrong zone = no trade
they check the V-shape. no displacement = no trade

5 filters. each one eliminates a category of bad trades. what's left is 1-2 entries per week that have the highest probability in the market

stop trading the challenge

start managing the challenge

the math is on your side if you let it be

(free discord in bio. i teach the exact framework i use to trade live)

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Cannot believe this is available for free on the internet

Brad Gerstner sits down with Sunny Madra at Stanford University to discuss the economics of AI chips, GPUs, NVIDIA and tokens

Sunny is by far one of the most impressive serial entrepreneurs of our time
> Co-founded Xtreme Labs, sold to Pivotal
> Founded Autonomic, which sold to Ford
> Founded Definitive Intelligence, which sold to Groq
> Groq ultimately sold to NVIDIA, in their largest ever M&A deal at $20 billion

Shoutout to @apoorv03 for hosting them in his MS&E 435 class and publishing these talks for us to listen!

[Himanshu Kumar @codewithimanshu]

Anthropic's Claude Ai Agents Team just Educated how to build production AI agents in under 30 mins.

For Free. From the engineers who built the stack.

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Bookmark it. Watch it. Build your first production agent this weekend.

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People are building agents for clients and charging $$$ as Beginners. You're still stuck in the thinking about AI phase.

This video fixes that tonight.

Follow @codewithimanshu for more high-signal content that actually moves your AI engineering career forward.
↓

Ivan Nardini runs Developer Relations for AI at Google Cloud. He just gave away the entire production agent stack in 30 minutes.

This is the talk that separates people deploying AI agents that actually scale from people whose agents break the moment they leave localhost.

Here's everything inside.

I break down a production AI video like this every week. Follow @codewithimanshu.

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The 4-part agent stack that actually scales.

Most devs are duct-taping frameworks together and calling it an "AI agent."

Ivan lays out the real stack:

Agent Development Kit (ADK): open-source, code-first framework for building, evaluating, and deploying agents. Supports Claude models through Vertex AI directly.

Model Context Protocol (MCP): lets your agent talk to any tool or data source with one standard. Vertex AI Agent Engine: managed platform for deploying, monitoring, and scaling agents in production. No DevOps headaches.

Agent-to-Agent Protocol: open protocol so agents built on different frameworks can actually work together.

This is the stack replacing every hacky agent setup in production right now.
Full MCP + Claude breakdowns drop weekly on @codewithimanshu.

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Building your first real agent.
Ivan builds a birthday planner agent live.

LLM Agent class. Name it. Define instructions. Pick the model.

He uses Claude 3.7 Sonnet. You could use Opus 4.7 for better reasoning.

Full agent built in minutes. Not weeks.

Watch the build once and you'll never structure an agent the wrong way again.

I post agent architectures people pay $500 courses to learn. @codewithimanshu.

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Multi-agent systems without the chaos.

Single agents are easy. Multi-agent systems are where 99% of builders fail.

Ivan extends the birthday planner by:
Adding a calendar service through MCP tools Creating an orchestrator agent to route requests between agents Handling state and context across agent handoffs

This is production multi-agent architecture. Clean. Scalable. Debuggable.
Most tutorials hand-wave this part. This one shows you every step.

Multi-agent orchestration content drops weekly on @codewithimanshu.

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Deployment without the DevOps nightmare.
This is where most AI projects die.

You build a cool agent locally. It works. You try to deploy it. Everything breaks.
Vertex AI Agent Engine fixes this:

Minimal code deployment Automatic monitoring of latency, CPU, and memory Built-in observability and logging No infrastructure setup needed

You provide config and requirements. The platform handles the rest.
This is how agents actually get to production.

Deployment guides for Claude agents post every week. @codewithimanshu.

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Agent-to-Agent Protocol: the future nobody's talking about.
Most people don't know this exists yet.

The A2A Protocol lets agents built in different frameworks communicate seamlessly.

Your Claude agent. My LangChain agent. Someone else's CrewAI agent.
All talking to each other. All solving parts of the same problem. All without custom integration code.

This is the infrastructure layer of the coming AI economy.
Getting in early on A2A Protocol is like getting in early on HTTP in 1995.

A2A deep dive coming soon. @codewithimanshu.

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30 minutes from the team shipping this in production.

You'll learn more from this than from 6 months of YouTube tutorials made by people who've never deployed an agent past localhost.

People who watch this understand production AI agents at the architect level.
People who skip it keep hacking together frameworks that break every time an API updates.

Save the video. Watch it tonight. Build a real agent this weekend.

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[L2WTrades @L2WTrades]

my trading buddy celebrates red days harder than green days

seriously

loses $2k, takes himself to dinner
makes $4k, eats ramen at home

i thought he was insane until he explained the psychology that made him $500k last year:

you're celebrating wins and depressing over losses

you're conditioning your brain backwards

here's the reward system that keeps you broke:

WHAT YOU DO NOW:

win trade: feel amazing, celebrate, post about it
lose trade: feel terrible, hide, hate yourself

YOUR BRAIN LEARNS:

winning = dopamine hit
losing = pain

RESULT:

you become addicted to the winning feeling
you chase winners (need that dopamine NOW)
you hold losers too long (can't accept the pain)
you take trades that aren't there because sitting out feels like missing a dopamine hit

you just programmed yourself to fail

here's what profitable traders do:

INVERSE REWARD SYSTEM:

win trade: stay neutral. it's just data
lose trade properly: CELEBRATE. you followed rules

YOUR BRAIN LEARNS:

winning = normal, no big deal
following rules = reward

RESULT:

you're not addicted to winning
you let winners run (no need for immediate dopamine)
you cut losers fast (still get reward for following rules)
you sit out garbage days without anxiety because not trading IS following rules

the truth is really simple:

i don't celebrate P&L. i celebrate EXECUTION

if i check the candle profile and the wick doesn't support expansion and i close my laptop - that's a win. i followed the filter. most traders would have forced a trade anyway because their brain needed the action

if the previous session didn't reverse and there's no setup at 9:30 and i take zero trades - that's a win. the system said no trade. i listened. the guy who took 6 trades that day lost $3k trying to manufacture setups that didn't exist

if i see NQ break out but YM doesn't confirm and i DON'T enter - that's a win. the divergence said the breakout is fake. sitting out saved me from a wick-out that would have cost $1,200

if i follow every rule perfectly and still lose $1k because the market did some shit nobody could predict - that's a WIN

if i break my rules, add size emotionally, skip the confirmation, and make $2k because i got lucky - that's a LOSS

"so you're happy when you lose money?"

i'm happy when i EXECUTE correctly. the money follows execution. if i chase money, i fuck up execution. if i chase perfect execution, money comes automatically

this is how you should journal:

TRADE 1: -$890
notes: "session profile confirmed continuation. gap was aligned. SMT confirmed. V-shape was there. entered correctly. stop hit exactly where planned. market reversed off a higher timeframe level i didn't see"
rating: 10/10 trade
reward: went to nice dinner

TRADE 2: +$2,340
notes: "no session confirmation. candle profile was a large wick. entered anyway because i felt like it was going to work. got lucky"
rating: 3/10 trade
punishment: no trading next day

REWARD yourself for the loss
PUNISH yourself for the win

because one had perfect process
one had terrible process

results don't matter. process matters

implemented this for 90 days:

OLD SYSTEM (reward outcomes):
celebrated wins → became addicted to the winning feeling
depressed over losses → avoided taking stops
forced trades on no-setup days → needed the dopamine
result: held losers, cut winners, overtraded
net: -$8,200

NEW SYSTEM (reward execution):
celebrated following the system regardless of outcome
celebrated sitting out when the filters said no trade
punished rule breaks even when they made money
result: let winners run, cut losers fast, took 60% fewer trades
net: +$27,600

same strategy
same setups
same market
different reward system

here's the framework:

GOOD EXECUTION + LOSS = REWARD YOURSELF
you followed the system. you checked the candle. you checked the session. you checked the assets. everything aligned. you entered. it lost anyway. that is a PERFECT trade. pay yourself. nice dinner, movie, whatever

BAD EXECUTION + WIN = PUNISH YOURSELF
you skipped the filters. you entered without confirmation. you traded outside your session. you got lucky. you just reinforced every bad habit that will blow your account next month. punish: no trading tomorrow. no reward

your brain doesn't know P&L

it knows REWARDS and PUNISHMENTS

right now you're rewarding P&L

that's why you're broke

start rewarding EXECUTION

watch what happens

[Elora khatun @elora_khatun]

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[QT @quteess]

@spacemnke Was this for yesterday?