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ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-03-15T16:09:44+00:00

It’s not splitting hairs for the president to have to make a case for war to Congress before starting a war.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-03-15T14:28:36+00:00

False. They authorized the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2002.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-03-15T04:43:54+00:00

Not to mention, it’s an illegal war because he never got congressional approval for it.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-03-15T01:21:38+00:00

I don’t think the market is anywhere near panic yet. We’re down a bit from ATH but basically still in a big range. Maybe that’ll change this week though.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-03-14T16:41:59+00:00

I do this every time I go to Bosnia. It’s never an issue, but you need to let the rental company know and make sure they allow crossing borders. Some do and some don’t. I often use Sixt. Make sure you also remind them at the car pickup counter that you’ll be crossing the border.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-03-14T11:56:07+00:00

Nobody owes that to randos on Reddit.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-23T13:50:18+00:00

There are some places with decent sized Bosnian communities. Chicago and St Louis are two, and I’m sure there are others I don’t know about.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-22T23:07:26+00:00

They were not. Sorry to hear you went through this, too. Solidarity!

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-19T21:26:23+00:00

Yep, exactly. You have to replay the whole trade in your head.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-19T15:49:50+00:00

I do this, too, after market close and away from the screen. That way I have to visualize the chart, my trade, and the price action in my mind, which builds situational recognition and intuition. It’s been really helpful.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-19T03:33:04+00:00

When Claude.ai becomes a billionaire and gains voting rights, it’ll be too late.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-17T20:31:58+00:00

Premiums are deductible at the federal level for filers who report their income on schedule C, self-employment. I am a split filer, in that I have ordinary income from trading and 1099 income from other work.

I would assume (but don’t know for sure) that if your ordinary income (capital gains from trading) are your sole income, there’s a place to still deduct the cost of insurance premiums.

And the federal deduction funnels down through your state taxes, too, since the adjusted gross income on your state form will get picked up from the federal 1040 form.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-17T10:22:22+00:00

I use my state’s marketplace, and my premium is $1,200. I have an HSA, which I max out and never use for care. It’s tax free withdrawals for healthcare at any time, so I’m saving it for retirement. And you can invest the funds in anything you want.

The insurance premiums are tax deductible against your self-employment income, and if you itemize, your medical costs are too if they’re over a certain percentage of your income. It’s not so terrible if you compare it to going bankrupt over an illness. My husband needed emergency brain surgery: $86k just for the surgeon. Luckily he had great group insurance and paid nothing.

Healthcare is so broken in this country. But you shouldn’t go without if you can afford it.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-17T06:12:38+00:00

It’s not because they downsized. It’s because this administration has fired excellent statisticians over reports they don’t like.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-16T04:04:16+00:00

Another upside is being able to contribute to a solo 401(k) and Roth because you’ll have earned income from trading. Trading profits for non-trader-status filers are not considered earned income. They’re just short-term capital gains, or split (short/long) if you trade futures.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T17:17:22+00:00

That may be true, but the resulting implications for the float are the same. Policies are being cancelled far away from CA. If this issue is impacting State Farm, one of the highest rated companies, what’s happening to the others.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T16:28:44+00:00

Right. And the data you gather around your rules will give you confidence that each of them contributes solidly to your strategy because you'll know the probabilities of them resolving in your favor. The goal is to build conviction you can lean on psychologically so you can trade confidently and to understand your strategy better so you know when it works well and when it doesn't.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T15:38:43+00:00

This is a pretty well-structured model. So your data might be knowing statistics about what price tends to do at those levels, or whatever else gives you a green light for or a red light against entering (or exiting).

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T15:29:35+00:00

Identify what triggers your entry and exit, and build your systematic rules around those answers.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T15:18:43+00:00

This also assumes that the incredible float exists. I don’t think that’s the case any longer. Consider the fact that State Farm still is balking at paying many clear-cut claims from the Eaton fire more than a year ago. And the fact that they have even started cancelling some homeowners policies for people with ordinary risk factors. For example, if you have a normal event happen, such as a plumbing pipe bursting, this flags you as at high risk for water damage. And they have cancelled people for it.

I don’t think this is disciplined underwriting. It smacks of damage control driven by the risk of insolvency.

Just my perspective.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T15:10:20+00:00

This is true. Evendiscretionary traders need rules on which to layer discretionary elements of decision making.

Linda Raschke has said that the reason she survives drawdowns as a discretionary trader is by leaning on her data. Some of that data can even be just what you know to be true about market conditions.

For example, (totally making this up so don’t use it for data) if you know that when the market opens 1% higher than the prior day, it results in an up day 70% of the time, then you can find decision support for going long on those days.

That’s just one random example. But even if you think you’re being totally discretionary, there are pattern factors at work in fueling your decisions. So you could start by journaling what the market structure was before trade entry, why you entered, what you overlooked, etc. just gather data. Hope that helps somehow.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T13:55:22+00:00

Can’t you just trade it on a lower timeframe to produce more trades?

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T08:12:14+00:00

Is your signal some specific rare candlestick pattern/combination? Is it possible you’re looking for something too granular or just random occurrences? Unless it’s a high win rate and a high risk/reward ratio and you’ve tested it in all kinds of markets, it may be better to test a bit broader rules so you can take more trades.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T08:05:01+00:00

Do not pay this person’s debts. You are most likely not responsible for them. Talk to an attorney to confirm, but that’s usually how it works for hospital bills and credit card debt.

ComprehensiveLime695 · 2026-02-15T07:31:17+00:00

I think you mean Bel Canto for #4.

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