Tim Escano

3mos for beast mode.

[TheBetterPath @TheBetterPath_]

Brutal Testosterone Laws Every Man Should Know (Undeniable)

1. No Ejaculation (7 Days) -> Increases testosterone up to 50%. You stop leaking your power. You start radiating it.

2. Heavy Lifting & Compound Movements -> Deadlifts, squats, bench press = natural T boosters.

3. Cold Showers -> Slaps your nervous system awake. Increases testosterone, shrinks excuses.

4. No Porn -> Dopamine detox. Stops artificial reward. Restores drive. Builds masculine hunger.

5. Sunlight on Skin (Especially Morning) -> Natural Vitamin D = testosterone production. 30 mins a day keeps the weakness away.

6. Sleep 7-9 Hours -> Your testosterone regenerates while you sleep. No rest = no power.

7. Zinc + Magnesium -> Fuel for testosterone. No minerals = low T = low ambition = loser spiral.

8. Confront Fear -> Testosterone spikes when you conquer something. Avoiding life makes you soft. Facing life makes you a weapon.

9. Cut Sugar & Seed Oils -> These kill testosterone like poison in the bloodstream. Eat clean or stay weak.

10. Walk Like a King, Not a Peasant -> Posture triggers hormones. Slouch = beta. Upright = alpha signal. Hormones follow behavior.

11. Fight, Don’t Flee -> Evolution designed testosterone to spike when challenged. Stop running. Start roaring.

[Tim Escano @tmotmo]

@TheCinesthetic @grok .. do your thing

[XO @Trader_XO]

So I asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude the following...

Does the widespread adoption of AI and LLMs in creating systematic and automated trading strategies lead to significant edge compression, making it more difficult and competitive for discretionary price action traders to find and maintain a profitable advantage ?

TLDR

Conclusion =>
Edge compression forces discretionary traders to evolve from pattern hunters to context masters.

The future edge for discretionary traders is not found in discovering a new candlestick pattern, but in the ability to filter out 95% of signals that algorithms now trade and focus purely on the 5% of setups where the context (liquidity, higher-timeframe structure, psychological footprint) aligns perfectly.

This is an advantage of judgment and experience, skills that become more valuable, not less, as the market becomes saturated with systematic automation.

I then asked about edge compression for automated / algo strategies...

Answer below...

Food for thought as I've been stepping further into automated strats

[DonAlt @DonAlt]

There are very little people on this platform that I fully trust

But there are three that have been pillars of the community that are (and should be) impossible to hate

@CryptoCred
@inversebrah
@zachxbt

Anyone that has beef with any of these accounts I inherently distrust

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

😂 Don't dream. Keep building!

[Mind the Game @mindthegamepod]

.@KingJames and @jj_redick discuss one of the hardest actions to guard: the Warriors post splits.

Watch Episode 2: https://t.co/HlorOT0sWV

[Rekt Capital @rektcapital]

#BTC

5 Phases of The Bitcoin Halving

1. Pre-Halving Downside phase

Approximately 70 days remain until the Bitcoin Halving in April 2024

Historically, any deeper retraces that occur during this orange period tend to generate fantastic Return On Investment for investors in the several months after the Halving

Generally, any retrace during this period likely represents one of the final bargain-buying opportunities for Bitcoin in the Pre-Halving period

In fact, Bitcoin performed a -18% retrace this past January already

Was that the retrace that historically tends to occur during this period?

In any case, if there is going to be another retrace in this Pre-Halving Downside phase, history suggests there is now a rapidly shrinking 7-day window for that to occur

2. Pre-Halving Rally

With the orange Pre-Halving period slowly coming to a close with only 7 days left...

Bitcoin is slowly getting ready to transition into the Pre-Halving rally phase

Approximately ~60 days before the Halving, a Pre-Halving rally tends to occur (light blue)

In anticipation of the Halving, investors "Buy the Hype" in an effort to "Sell the News"

Short-term traders and speculators "Buy The Hype" several weeks before the Halving in anticipation of making a profit from this hype-fuelled rally

Then these speculators "Sell The News" to realise that profit, contributing to a Pre-Halving retrace which occurs only a handful of weeks before the Halving event itself

3. Pre-Halving retrace

After the Pre-Halving Rally has concluded...

A Pre-Halving retrace tends to occur a couple of weeks before the Halving event itself (dark blue circle)

In 2016, this Pre-Halving retrace was -38% deep

In 2020, this Pre-Halving retrace was -20% deep

This Pre-Halving retrace can last multiple weeks, making investors question whether the Halving was a bullish catalyst on price after all

4. Re-Accumulation

The Pre-Halving retrace is followed by multi-month re-accumulation (red)

This period can last up to 150 days (i.e 5 months)

Many investors get shaken-out in this stage due to boredom, impatience, and disappointment with lack of major results in their BTC investment in the immediate aftermath of the Halving

5. Parabolic Uptrend

Once Bitcoin breaks out from the re-accumulation area breakout into the parabolic uptrend (green)

It is during this phase Bitcoin experiences accelerated growth on its way to new All Time Highs

$BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

Lakers had a 0.3% chance of making the playoffs after starting the season with a 2-10 record 😳

(via @Lakers)

[Landon Thomas @sixfivelando]

Luka Dončić said Devin Booker was talking to him before the scuffle and he said he can’t repeat say what Booker said to him or he will be fined.

He continued to say: “Next time don’t wait til three seconds left to talk.”

[Imran Ahmed @ImranAhmd]

@insiliconot Instead get her

[ANBESSA @Anbessa100]

Every emotionally evolved tribe that lived by the virtues that the woke bubble is faking today, was wiped out from earth by technically advanced idiots.

They were to nice, no fear of others and got killed in the process cause humans are brutal animals under the law of nature.

[Kris @KrisAbdelmessih]

Before I quit trading, I framed the decision:

I'm 43 yrs old. I can stay, make more $$, racing for 10 more years.

Or I can leave now, while I have energy, reasonable health and less ageism against me to work towards something that I'm not in a race to get over.

cont...

[Steph Smith @stephsmithio]

In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon:

💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.

What are the generation-defining stats of today?

I'll post a few to kick things off...

[ANBESSA @Anbessa100]

Amazing speech 👏

[PROFIT BLUE @profit8lue]

I have a mindset that if you don't use other people's hard times for your personal again... Blessings will come your way 10X
FU*KING NO ONE and no MONEY can change this for me.

[🇺🇸 Kyle Bass 🇹🇼 @Jkylebass]

The implication was Ukraine would not be let to stand alone and face a threat should it come under one. Putin has orchestrated a full-scale invasion and, just like 2014, we DO NOTHING. We send their troops some weapons and say “good luck”?! America isn’t what it used to be. 2/8

[Robot James 🤖🏖 @therobotjames]

Quick thread on "price" changes and market makers.

Consider a market that looks like this.

The best bid is 98
The best offer is 102

What's the price?

Depends who's asking.

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

I spent most of my life primarily driven by FOMO (fear of missing out), even after selling Twitch.

Here’s how I learned to finally break away from that toxic cycle:

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

'Fault' is situated in the past.

'Responsibility' is situated in the present.

[Pas @passytee]

SO WHO IS INVERSEBRAH?
CT HISTORY #1

Massive thank you to 🙏🙏
Our Hero: @inversebrah
Narrator 🔊: @notsofast
Cameo Voice 👀🔊: @ledgerstatus