Developing "Spartan"

Discussion in 'Journals' started by nooby_mcnoob, Feb 3, 2019.

  1. There is so much power I have inserted into two buttons... (enter and exit)

    Hundreds of dollars in minutes. I can train my children to do this like monkeys.
     
    #181     Aug 20, 2019
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  2. Practiced trading over mobile connection today. No problems. Already done my trading for the day. Had to fix a bug in the code on the fly.

    15 minutes. One trade. One trade... I already made more money in the last week than I would in a month doing consulting.

    This is terrifying. Usually, I see success in software because I plan it, I execute, and it works as expected. It's a lot of work. This is a whole new thing. I don't want to sabotage myself.

    I think I'll just not look at the numbers for a few months.
     
    #182     Aug 22, 2019
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  3. Missed out on a 4 bagger today because even though I practiced with mobile connection yesterday, today the internet _really_ went out and my mobile connection couldn't keep up because I had overrun my data.

    This is problematic. Hmm...

    Options are:

    1. Backup internet connection
    2. Trading-only mobile data connection

    I'm leaning towards (2).

    Edit: Relevant principle from Dalio

     
    Last edited: Aug 23, 2019
    #183     Aug 23, 2019
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  4. Beware that a mobile data connection could also go down. And, in line with Murphy's law, it will go down at the worst possible time.
     
    #184     Aug 24, 2019
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  5. Indeed. What do you suggest?
     
    #185     Aug 24, 2019
  6. Preferably one would have two independent internet connections. However, that redundancy comes at a cost and thus would require an analysis to see it the account size (and profitability) justifies this.

    Were you not able to quickly buy additional data bandwidth? My mobile phone operator allows me to buy extra data (e.g. 100 MB, 1 GB) once I've used my monthly quota.
     
    #186     Aug 24, 2019
  7. Good points, food for thought. Honestly I don't want to buy extra data because I don't want to enable their stupid business model. Bandwidth is not that expensive!!!
     
    #187     Aug 24, 2019
  8. This is going well so far.
     
    #188     Aug 27, 2019
  9. As I'm trading this system through Spartan, I am keeping a separate journal in the wiki software I mentioned earlier. I am noticing that things that I thought I had automated are actually partially discretionary, so every day after my day's trades are done, I continue to automate those discretionary things.

    6 months can't come soon enough...
     
    #189     Aug 27, 2019
  10. I've decided to take my leave of this website. I was threatened by an admin and you know what, they can fuck right off.

    Good luck to you all.
     
    #190     Aug 28, 2019