Options Trader, Naps in Jeans, has Mortgage Rate starting with 2, Sworn to Protect our Constitution, AI Tinkerer, Husband, Dad, & Dog Person.

USA
Joined January 2025
500 verified followers. Thank you, every one of you. Three weeks ago the chart was flat. Then I replied nonstop, every day, and the bars finally showed up. If you're still grinding for it, keep going. Next up is the hard one: 500K impressions in 90 days. Currently at 8.1K.
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My Sunday morning view just changed from trade logs to the bottom of my beloved 2004 Land Rover Discovery 2. Fighting the constant O2 sensor fight. @LandRover @LandRoverUSA #Discovery2 #LandRover
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Unplanned hotel night with the family. Pool time, pizza and ice cream in bed, kids on the Xbox. Took a spin through my old neighborhood to prove I used to be cool. Jury's still out. Waffles is properly spent.
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Ready for week 2 of the $1,000 to $100,000 challenge. Week 1 is already up 47.2% from the $1,000 start. Copy trades through @TradeEchoApp by following @itsCblast, so the credit goes there. If you also want to follow along, join here: tradeecho.com/pricing?fpr=ta…
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The hardest part of letting an AI trade isn't trusting it. It's keeping my hands off it on a red day.
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Best upgrade to my trading this year wasn't a new indicator. It was a log that records every decision, so I review what I did instead of what I meant to do.
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Thank you to the people who replied when I had almost no followers. That kind of early support sticks with you.
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Saturday. Waffles got a canoe ride, the trade log can wait.
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A question I keep getting in the replies: what does Claude actually do in my setup? It's the architect. Robinhood MCP executes, TradeEcho feeds the data, and my job is mostly reading the log and saying "sure, go ahead."
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A decision has been made.
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I need to step up my coffee game. A coworker just showed me their home setup: a Slayer, a serious grinder and that view. Meanwhile I'm over here having a little coffee with my sugar and cream.
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My X circle this week. Thank you to everyone who replies, quotes and talks shop with me here. You make this a lot more fun. Top 10: @Brand0n @PenneyInvests @Mapago9 @jbfinancebull @jevlorde @JoshInvests_ @pekutovsky45098 @azrael_options @MaxHirsch13 @tomstockslab
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$1,000 to $100,000 challenge update: +$54 today, +$423 this week, +$447 for October. These are my copy-trade results through @TradeEchoApp. Every trade came from @forged_by_steel. All the credit goes there. My AI trading loop made zero trades today. I left it running on Fable, which burned through my tokens before 8 AM. I was away from my phone and didn't notice until it was too late. The tokens reset over the weekend, and Monday the loop is back on Opus 5.5 where it belongs. Want to run the challenge alongside me? tradeecho.com/pricing?fpr=ta…
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Correction: every trade TODAY was @Forged_by_Steel on this challenge because @itsCblast is not allowed to trade on Fridays ;) All the other trades this month so far were from @itsCblast. We continue Monday!
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AI trading loop change this morning: warm gate agents. Until yesterday, every GO / NO-GO decision started a fresh agent that first read the full rulebook, then ran the gate: earnings, contract and size, anti-chase, dealer edge (flip, anchor, GEX), option flow side, liquidity, news. Dispatch to verdict took 3 to 7 minutes per name. On a 5-minute bar that means the setup that fired was often judged on the next bar, after the move. Today two agents, one for calls and one for puts, loaded the rules once at start and wait. A candidate arrives as one message and they go straight to the checks. The rulebook read, repeated on every gate yesterday, is gone from the decision path. Target: under 3 minutes, inside the same bar. Measured times after the close. @TradeEchoApp @RobinhoodApp
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Rule changes tonight for the AI loop, after the daily review. 1. Max per trade $850 to $900. The cap was the one filter that blocked winners in the paper book (9 of 15, +$2,216), so it moves up, and when a single contract is still too big the loop now uses the mini index options (XSP, XND, MRUT) or a vertical debit spread instead of skipping the setup. 2. Exits. For new entries the fixed +60% target is gone. The stop stays -45% until the option is up 30%, then a trailing stop 25% below the high takes over. A replay of 94 blocked setups scored the current exits at -5 cents per dollar risked and the trail at +5 cents, with the same worst loss. 3. Measurement. The range gate blocked more setups today than any other rule and was the only one with no dollar score, because those names never reached a gate. They now get paper shadows. Every gate also records the regime, trend day or chop, so the flow filter can be judged by regime. Today it read put sellers as bulls on a -3% tape. 4. Speed. The bar lane dispatches gates itself, copy work moves to smaller models, and two gate agents stay warm all day. Candidate to order should drop from about 3 to 4 minutes to under 2. Why: the paper book wins 33% of the time and the old exits needed 43% to break even. Nothing here adds a restriction. It widens what can be traded, lets winners run, and measures the one rule we could not see. @TradeEchoApp @RobinhoodApp
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End of day on both experiments. AI loop (Robinhood): one trade. It bought HIMS calls at the open on a magnet setup and stopped out an hour later for -$144. It also sold the TMUS puts I put on last week at the expiry-eve hard close for $10 of proceeds, -$590 on the trade, and the MRVL calls had no bid, so the closing order was cancelled at the bell and they expire tomorrow. The miss was the other side: on a day the Nasdaq fell 3%, seventeen gate runs turned away every put, mostly on range, the cap and option flow that read put sellers as bulls. The paper book says those puts closed up 20 to 50%. The same filters kept yesterday's blocked longs out, and those were stopped for a paper -$8,700 today, so the rules cut both ways. $878.96, down $240.75 (21.5%) on the day. Webull copy-trade: $1,418.91, down $0.49, no positions and no trades today. @TradeEchoApp @RobinhoodApp
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AI-initiated: Sold $TMUS 150P 10/23 @ 0.05 x2 (-98%, -$590). Expiry-eve hard close.
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AI-initiated: Sold $HIMS 29.5C 10/30 @ 0.78 x8.
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AI-initiated: Bought $HIMS 29.5C 10/30 @ 0.96 x8.
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