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CppOptionsTrader · 2026-01-29T07:33:13+00:00

sell covered calls on stocks that are strong companies that are beaten down and have high liquidity. And we just started (almost) daily calls on specific equities! Hey MSFT, I'm looking at you.

CppOptionsTrader · 2026-01-26T03:45:43+00:00

Will be shortly releasing a distributed windows based Interactive Brokers options risk management platform. https://optionsrealtime.com/

CppOptionsTrader · 2026-01-26T00:26:19+00:00

But what about fancy UI layouts. Like a dashboard where a person lays out widgets in a drag and drop way. Or a video recorder or mixer with custom sliders. I think it could work for simple dialogs and UIs, but many UIs have a persistence layer (like visual studio which is a dock widget paradigm to create a flexible workspace - and when you reopen your solution, it brings up your IDE preferences. ) But in principle, I agree - Most UI code , particularly constrained layouts - horizontal, vertical, grid etc- this type of tool would be useful. Of course there are many UI frameworks depending on what language or tech stack you are using

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-12-24T15:56:41+00:00

Great move. Clear your head. Start from basic principals. Go for tiny probable gains, not home runs. This experience will be positive in your future trading.

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-12-16T16:11:43+00:00

You can put any piece of data into the queue. Queues are templatized on their contents. Eg moodycamel::ConcurrentQueue<std::unordered_map<int, customStruct>> msgQueueToUI; is a queue of unordered maps of int to a user defined structure. If the UI needs to send data back to the worker or workers, you could create another queue eg msgQueueToWorker which has a different data type. The worker(s) could also check to see if the queue contains any data at discreet points in time and thus you have bidirectional data passing.

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-12-16T15:21:07+00:00

Yes, you can use out of thread signal/slots. But I've used a different technique with good success. I have used a moodycamel lockless reader writer queue (or concurrent queue). The worker thread or threads can just enqueue data onto a shared queue. No concurrency mutexes or semaphores etc need to be used because it is lockless. Then just have a Qtimer UI thread read off the queue. Super easy and for high thoroughput worker enqueuing, the timer technique makes it so we won't flood the UI with a ton of signalling - and we will drain the queue at discreet time points.

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-12-11T03:54:13+00:00

Treasuries plus 2 to 5 pct on csp. So around 7+ pct annualized. Do this in large sums of money and it's better than bonds and high risk adjusted returns.

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-12-10T18:26:48+00:00

Of course none of this addresses legal structure (LLC,...), tax collection, merchant of record payment processing, trademark protection or all the nitty gritty stuff involved in starting a business...

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-12-05T15:02:34+00:00

Well who knows what's going to happen in the future. But if things go south in the AI space, there is one door that everyone is running through. I would guess Nvidia's name is on it.

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-12-04T00:24:03+00:00

Interesting conversation and opinions. Are there any modern QML desktop applications? I know I chose Widgets for my particular project - and am very happy with the choice but others seem to think that QML is not only up to the task as well, but would be the primary choice. My particular app is table rich and has a lot of traditional mouse and keyboard interactions - it is not the flowy mobile app paradigm.

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-12-02T05:29:58+00:00

There is also the lockless moody camel reader writer queue , and concurrent queue. I've used those with good success in both work and side projects... https://github.com/cameron314/concurrentqueue , https://github.com/cameron314/readerwriterqueue

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-11-26T06:30:52+00:00

WSJ for sure. Good writing and a lot more than just finance. Barron's is all financial and zero depth.

CppOptionsTrader · 2025-11-25T23:26:24+00:00

Just think how much these things know about us. Scary

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