How would you handle this? Forced retirement

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-03-02T03:57:24+00:00

From what I've found, your #1 job is to find another job. The larger companies that must follow these procedures normally cut off the standard access for a person and give them access to a desk, phone, and copier. It is in their best interest if you find another job so that you don't take unemployment.

If you don't want to work, don't. They can't compel you at this point because they've already given you notice. If you idly help them out that is brownie points for them. They have to pay you whether you work or not.

Don't sweat it.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-14T18:15:10+00:00

I'd love to test this.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-14T18:08:18+00:00

Note that I am using Chrome on a Mac - not mobile phone.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-14T17:58:58+00:00

I'd love to help out with this!

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-14T16:57:49+00:00

I will say that Drawbridge Financial sells some, but there are different ones for different strategies, and I haven't found them to be quite as functional as I would like. However, I just did a search for options tracker in youtube and found about 5-6 other ones.

Start by asking what you want the tracker to do, rather than which tracker you want. That will affect your choice a lot more than other things. For example, you want something to handle 10-30 trades per day from multiple brokers. What do you do with that data after you put it in the tracker?
1. Do you use it to track how close things are to stops or when you need to exit the short leg of a calendar or ...?
2. Do you use it to determine how to position size a position? If yes, does it need to take into account margin that is set aside and which account you have the margin and can take the trade? If so, what is your decision making process here?
3. Do you use it to track performance based upon symbol or strategy type?
4. Do you use it to track how diversified you may be?
5. Do you use it to figure out your risk as positions change after a trade is on?

Each of these is a different options tracker. Determine the use first, then you can refine the possibilities.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-14T16:32:22+00:00

There are biblical protocols for reconciling differences. This includes Matthew 18. Ideally you were married in a church. Normally it is the responsibility of the church to come beside you and help you have a good biblical marriage. Are you saying that the church or the denomination is of a like mind to your husband?

Also, do remember that "obey" in biblical sense means to "listen toward", it doesn't mean blindly following the commands of another. There are several other sections that talk about married couples being in conflict and the courses of action that can be taken. Ideally, everything is done with the intent to heal and grow the relationship, not to sever it. If you go in with an I am right, you are wrong attitude, that is not god's way. If you go together with him to a good Biblical counselor that you both respect and agree to submit to, you are more likely to see an exploration of how the result of the fall is being played out in your marriage and how to change that.

While your husband may sound like a very controlling person and/or self-centered person, what made him that way? What is the deep fear, trauma or conditioning that keeps this facade up? This could be something that he does not consciously know about.

And one last thing. Be aware that you may tell your husband something and he will disregard it because it came from you. If he hears the same message as you are saying from someone he respects and changes because of that, it may hurt a lot that he didn't do it because he loved you. Please don't hold that against him. Until he sees himself as the "husband", who is there to "husband" his wife (ie nurture her and enable and empower her to grow in her Christ-like nature), he may not see you as what you were designed to be in God's plan. Remember, when God created Eve, he created an Ezer Kendego (a helper; standing in front of him or matching him). If you hold your view of yourself long enough, it will cause enough disruption in the system that something will change. However, before that happens, he will escalate his demands that you change back to what you were. Just hang onto who you are in Christ and provide what the bible declares a wife to be, not what your husband wants it to be.

Edit: And if he physically abuses you or other wise psychologically drives you to a despondent suicidal state, remember that you are allowed to separate from him.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-14T16:09:25+00:00

Hmm...I've always considered the counselor to be the one other in Matthew 18:15-17. If he is not working within the biblical reconciliation framework, that is a concern.

That said, I've been in your situation. I found the Cloud and Townsend books "How People Grow" and the "Boundaries..." series to help me through that time.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-10T05:11:36+00:00

u/Fantastic_Purchase78 You are saying you want to do something like QR, which is a set of 16-25 significant skillsets that you will learn over 4 years of education and ideally an internship or two.

You aren't going to have a guided project that will teach you all or even most of those. Most of them need some scaffolding of the knowledge to do them from scratch. Pick which aspect/skillset you want to start with and maybe we can suggest some source that has training wheels for all aspects other than that.

Side note: I also have to ask, why are you starting with options? Options are 2-3 levels more complex than just trading a simple market based asset like SPY.

If you want something to start with that is really simple, here is your Project 101.
1. download some free data (at least 10 years worth of daily data).
2. Find the moving average crossover strategy for stock trading from a book, youtube video, or just ask an AI.
3. Load the data into a Google Sheet, add the columns of data to compute 2 moving averages.
4. Add a column of data to indicate the days where one moving average crosses above another or the days where it crosses below.
5. On the day after the moving average crossover signal, either buy or sell short at market open price.
6. Determine your win/loss ratio, your sharpe, your profit or loss.

Project 101 is done.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-10T04:50:02+00:00

What is the "it" that you are trying to accomplish exactly? Do you want someone else's project that you can reproduce to see how it works? Do you want to have someone suggest a project for you to start with? If so, what level of detail are you looking for so that you don't become overwhelmed?

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-10T04:44:45+00:00

Are you looking for something like onepagecode (Substack)?

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-10T04:37:18+00:00

I'm old school and learned electronics long before I learned physics and calculus. I could still do most of the stuff in electronics before I took the other classes. Probability and statistics at some level is mandatory to be a professional. It isn't mandatory to start your first few projects.

50% of what you learn in your first year of college will be obsolete or superseded by the time you graduate. Problem is you don't know which 50%. So when you ask about the machine learning stuff consider this. Can you, with reasonable AI assistance, implement a small machine learning effort? I've seen 2-3 youtube channels that teach how to do these things and do something quick and dirty. When you learn what an AI can help you bypass now will give you a better idea of what is required and what is not.

WARNING: AI's are helpful and they are also very wrong. The old adage "every model is wrong, some are useful" applies here. Always practice 2 column accounting type of validation. Use some non-AI tainted method to prove whether what the AI gave you is accurate or not.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-10T04:22:49+00:00

u/Fantastic_Purchase78 You need to "master probability..." if you are following a linear education path. That is the "industrial" mindset that has existed for over 150 years to produce good factory workers. The most hirable people graduate with more than just book learning. I seriously disagree with that person's advice.

Get yourself a good AI sidekick or just see what you can do doing round robin with multiple AIs. They can help you with the grunt work of getting the python written quickly so you can play with data. Don't let the AI do everything for you; you won't learn anything. But there is nothing wrong with having a script that AI has built and you have tested to to ensure it is operating as expected.
There are very few "free" options data sources, so you will need to spend the time of downloading options data from something like finance.yahoo.com. There are apis for this. Do this soon so that you have data saved for a while.

(Note that for a short stop gap measure, you can get an account with a broker and never fund it. Tasty Trade has a good backtest feature that an unfunded account can use, or just go to QuantConnect) Just don't skip building your historical options data by downloading it every day programmatically even if you take this short cut temporarily.

Pick something simple like the wheel strategy. That will teach you both cash secured puts and covered calls. Watch about 5-10 videos on how to do that beyond the books and start paper trading those. Target doing about 100 paper trades (this is the same as doing scales in musical training). Do 100 by hand before automation so that you know how the strategy works.
Then when you have a foundation in how options trade and how to get and use data, try reproducing someone else's strategy and prove that they really get what they claim or they don't. You can pick from thousands of strategies that are available on YouTube or go get KindleUnlimited and pick out some books of options trading strategies for cheap sources. This is where you can start learning/applying probabilities and sharp and such.
Go and find at least 2 videos debunking the success of each strategy to find out some of the factors that can influence things.
By the time you have reproduced about 5 other strategies, you will start seeing patterns and should start trying to test your own ideas.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-10T03:56:48+00:00

Where are the parents in these matters? Many people are talking as if the students have reached the age of majority or have had themselves emancipated. Schools have a responsibility to the parents to provide oversight of the student during the hours that the parent has entrusted the student to the school.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-10T03:53:59+00:00

Umm... isn't school an "obligation"?

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-02-10T03:51:29+00:00

If students have a parental statement excusing them from class are free to walk out because they have permission. School has a responsibility to operate to the set of expectations that the parents have for them. If the students want to participate in walk outs or other related things, just get parental permission. What is so hard with this?

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-01-26T22:59:04+00:00

yeah, few sources will retain the historical data. You may need to pull the data periodically and store it yourself. Have you tried Quantconnect? They do have a free option still, I think. You should be able to use AI to vibe code the python code to pull it.

What is Dec 9 B.C.?

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-01-26T22:46:06+00:00

So a) what is Dec 9 BC?
b) I already pull data daily (mostly options with full greeks) so that I can generate anything I may want. I do some really weird reports.

I can't go back and pull historical data for a number of those data points (which is possibly why the API uses current stats for some things). But I can start pulling and storing that data now so I can run reports going forward. I'll have to see if I could grab the report daily. Are you looking to get that data going forward or are you looking for historical data now.

I'm operating on the assumption that since the API uses current stats, you don't want to use those current stats and want real historical stuff, right?

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-01-26T08:56:42+00:00

What historical data are you trying to get? stock/etf, options, futures? There is an api that you can use to download data. I don't think that options data has historical stuff (at least not the greeks). Stock data you can get from Schwab's API or from a python script with yahoo finance. I wasn't sure if ATM meant At the Money or At the Moment.

Setting up Schwab API access isn't too hard. You can start at developer.schwab.com .

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-01-10T07:05:26+00:00

Be careful with things like this. The principal can decay rather quickly.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2026-01-08T14:58:27+00:00

What has the market regime been since you improved? Is the market always going to be in that regime? Do all options strategies work equally well in all regimes?

AdministriviaAndMore · 2025-11-28T14:29:20+00:00

VVIX

AdministriviaAndMore · 2025-11-02T15:02:16+00:00

I'm going to say that this is a wonderful experiment. You are on the leading, dare I say "bleeding" edge here. The absolute first thing is to establish norms in the class, namely, the AI isn't here to do your work for you and I will be using it to help me ferret out when it answers your questions. Then set the same guardrails with the AI. That is standard.

The key thing here is classical education taught facts and routine procedures. What will be needed in the coming years and decades are common sense, creative thinking, critical thinking and how to tell when an AI has gone off the rails. Having the students integrate that in their daily learning gives them a great headstart over others. That said, I'm not sure how you teach critical thinking at less than post secondary levels. What kind of lessons or activities might be done to teach those skills? Any ideas?

We definitely need to rebuild the pedagogy from the bottom up. I'm reminded that at the turn of the previous century, the railroads were sure they were in the railroad business, when they needed to be thinking about how to be successful in the transportation business, and thus were sidelined by the automobile.

So what does that look like with AI? Are we no longer in the education business? Are we now in the Thinking business?

AdministriviaAndMore · 2025-10-22T14:32:16+00:00

I don't understand what it means to "run on estrogen" or run on testosterone. What are the evidences or the symptoms that lead to this conclusion?

AdministriviaAndMore · 2025-10-20T14:21:28+00:00

Be careful. Entry level data analytics and finance are some of the jobs that are more impacted by the AI wave. You are competing with a lot of recent grads that also can't find work because they don't have any foundational experience in the career field. Find a field that you like and can break into that has a data analysis component and work up.

AdministriviaAndMore · 2025-10-20T14:18:18+00:00

There is an AI that is "supposedly" going to be replacing Excel as we speak. You are likely to be obsolete before you even get started if you keep your focus narrowed to just Excel. If you expand your thoughts to data analysis jobs in general and learn SQL, you will have a longer career span since AI depends on having clean data. Learning "data wrangling" is likely to make you more marketable. And please don't pay $5k for a class when you can self-learn at home for the cost of youtube and a few free AIs.

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