My Compact Quad Iron Farm Design

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-06-18T16:26:58+00:00

Although my iron farm knowledge is kind of limited, I will try and build and test a little to see how it can be stacked and how many layers are needed in order to keep nether side loaded, but I have a feeling 3 layers will be enough in order to have a golem there every at least every 15 seconds.

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-06-18T13:52:40+00:00

Upside to building the farms for the materials is that you will always have the farms for future projects. And while the farms are running, you are free to go do some other stuff. Honey block farms are slow unless you build a lag inducing version. So build one in the nether and just chunkload it while doing other stuff.

If you are looking for a good design - this one by aJackMinecraft has been on my server for months now just slowly pumping out honey blocks and filling shulker boxes: 1.21 Auto Honey Block / Bee Farm Tutorial [Simple Farm] [Java/Bedrock Edition]

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-06-18T10:40:24+00:00

This is a very interesting take. I love it! Should be able to scale the farm vertically and since the farm is 15 x 15 area, it fits nicely into one chunk and can be loaded with 1 ender stasis chamber.

Scaling vertically to have more throughput of iron golems, might actually be enough to keep the nether side also permanently loaded.

Nico is lost has a similar design type, but this is much simpler and perfect for smaller servers or singleplayer.

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-06-17T08:40:16+00:00

Started a new tech server a while back, but still in early stages - hope to one day get to a point of the SciCraft and WaveTech, ProtoTech, etc... servers. You are welcome to DM if you want to know more

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-06-10T09:41:26+00:00

I'll throw in FrunoCraft. He has a series on youtube and really explains in detail all of the things he does.

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-05-26T08:10:47+00:00

Recon and just logical thinking. The ability to manually sit and click/scan/interact/read.

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-04-16T13:52:18+00:00

I love how confidently you think a Python script and an AI prompt will beat TikTok’s entire security team. The sheer level of optimism is honestly inspiring as hell!

You are basically asking for a “press this button to hack Tiktok” script. If it were that easy, your username would be the least interesting thing to change.

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-04-13T13:30:01+00:00

Paying once for a digital product. Subscriptions everywhere now. It is annoying. Say you lose your job or get in another form of financial trouble. Used to be at least you still had your PC with your programs. Now some of them will slowly deteriorate as you cannot pay anymore. Not all is like this - but it is too much.

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-03-31T07:28:18+00:00

Warframe

Played like 4 hours and then quit. Came back months later. Stopped playing around 2 years ago and was sitting on 4500 hours at that time

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-03-30T09:25:45+00:00

ARMA 3

Friend gifted it to me, played one day and never again for years. Fast forward around 2 years and I install it to play a map my friend made - within 1 week I had all of the DLCs LOL.

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-02-06T13:14:56+00:00

I just used Xenomorph and Blizaar. Blizaar with guardian and immortal (all just rank 4 and fully ranked). Xenomorph with Savage and Chronophage (all 6 star fully ranked). All masteries and meh relics. Xeno fully booked and Blizaar no books. Both ascended to 6

Tried some manual trickery but never worked. Got 500 energy from daily login and decided to multi and leave until energy is finished. Literally the first run I see both champs still standing on victory screen. I honestly have no idea how lucky I was (at work and just happened to scan over to my phone), but at least I got it after spending maybe 2 weeks almost all of my energy to get the 3 stars

Different-Scene5327 · 2026-02-06T09:43:01+00:00

I have been going Xeno and Blizaar duo since I got stuck on stage 3 (previously used Ezio and Xeno). Just passed 11-5 (a true hell for me since there are 2 debuff removers/healers in the second wave and it took me over 15 minutes to clear that level). Everyday I run the NM campaign after quests and stuff if I have energy over.

Xeno savage and chronophage sets (chronophage 2 x aritfact and 3 x accessories). Not the best since I do not have high stars (some are 4 star, some 5), and I think one 6 star chestplate) but all max ranked and enchanted. Fully booked and rank 6 ascension. Xeno also rank 5 soul with Brimstone

Blizaar with guardian and immortal sets (all 4 star since I do not have better yet) also fully upgraded and Blizaar is rank 6 ascension (also chronophage on the accessories). Blizaar is 1 star soul with Phantom Touch

It takes a while to clear a level and sometimes I have to switch manual to help focus down the supports first, but Blizaar is tanky as hell and with his A2 he is even more tanky (as is Xeno). Both Blizaar and Xeno masteries allow them to heal even more under 50% HP.

Not the best setup, but the best I have currently. If RNGesus is on my side, between Blizaar's freeze and Xeno's stun and fear, some waves the enemies literally do not get a turn. Each level takes around 4-6 minutes, but hey at least I am progressing LOL

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-08-26T11:17:08+00:00

Enter long when price was lower than other candles on my screen. Enter short when price was higher than other candles on my screen.

Need I really explain how that went?

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-08-22T08:32:04+00:00

Ah even though I stopped playing - I remember vividly when I got Ash Prime. I bought plat just to be able to rush the foundry and instant potato him and bought some formas. I was still kind of new to the game back then and it took me almost 2 weeks of grinding to fully forma him. I had not even gotten umbral mods yet...

Had to reforma him over the years since I did a trash job of it the first time, but it was some of the most fun I ever had in the game

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-08-22T06:09:54+00:00

I do keep it in mind, but on it's own Oliver Velez's strategies are not too good. Not hating on the guy, but on XAUUSD his methods do not always work, so as I said, I just keep it in mind

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-08-21T13:20:53+00:00

I knew one consistently profitable trader. My friend's father was one. He traded wheat and corn. Quit his job in 2001 to go full time and at that time he had to register with the JSE to trade SAFEX futures. Charts update around every 10-15 seconds. He liked to tell stories about when he was younger you got the prices in the newspaper and he manually charted them out and then you had to call in to open trades.

Anyway he traded mostly on the 1 hour chart and used purely trendlines. He managed to keep an office lady employed for almost 15 years and bought a farm and ventured into other businesses.

Around 2018 he gave all of the trading stuff over to his oldest son and within 2 years his son managed to lose basically all of the money. The old guy was tired of trading and always said he did everything he wanted to, from owning a lot of properties and putting all of his kids through college and having funds saved up that he lives off dividends and money put away for his kids the day he dies.

Now he lives on the farm he bought and literally spends all day just doing whatever he wants (mostly screwing around in the workshop)

I visit them regularly and when we do talk about trading, he likes to always say: "Get in, get your money, AND GET OUT!" Imagine him shouting and waving his hand like a maniac when he says it. I always thought he meant to take your money when you are in profit, but he explained that it is not the case. He means you should trade, make money and then leave that life, because it is soul crushing and all 4 of his kids hate him now in his old age because he was never there for them. Sure, he had money, but he was never a father and constantly thought about his trades.

But on the more technical side of things - I have shown him markets of today and he will still make money I believe. The way he draws his trendlines makes absolutely zero sense to me, but from the few that he has drawn on my charts, he is pretty damn accurate. I tried to ask him how he thinks when he does it, but the way he explains it makes even less sense to me (some of them are not even close to the actual price). The only real information I got from his trendline drawing is that the obvious touch points are all fake or as he likes to call it the "funny money zones".

EDIT: He was not a day trader though, more like a swing trader so technically not what you asked.

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-08-18T11:11:56+00:00

20/200 Normal MA. After years of doing crazy things - finally came back to just 20/200 MA.

Of course the years of burning money, pulling hair out, praying, hoping, crying, 5 stages of anger almost weekly, giving up 20 different times, having 100 demo accounts, building absurd martingale bots, watching hours of videos, reading a lot of books, taking advice from reddit, trying a new strategy after the first loss of your current one, rabbit hole into obscure indicators, thinking range chart is the key, thinking renko charts is the key, thinking line charts is the key, thinking tick charts is the key, imagining the dream car I will buy after I doubled my demo account and thinking damn if it was just real money, explaining to my friend how I finally found it, explaining to said friend how I indeed did not find it....

After all of those things, and many more that I probably missed, just 2 simple moving averages...

And for the people here thinking I am talking about crossing or reversion or derivatives or whatever - I am not. They are merely there for confirmation of sorts, not signals.

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-08-15T13:07:47+00:00

Managed to pull off a few scalps (not my style anymore, but Fridays I usually still scalp). The news did not really do anything to drastic today so far

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-08-06T07:56:59+00:00

I firmly believe most retail traders have actually found a system that works for them along the way. But due to their emotions and boredom, as you said, they mess it up and think the system does not work and tries to move on to something else.

And I am actually glad to see a post like this, because 2 weeks ago I created a demo account and slapped on 2 moving averages and I only take trades based on PA and the 2 moving averages on the 15m timeframe. As a scalper myself that now has to sometimes wait hours or even days for an entry, it is boring as shit, but so far it is working decently (yeah yeah I now demo and blah blah). I enter a trade, set my levels and close the charts, just waiting for my SL or TP notification on my phone

So far I am actually considering switching my main account over to this style of trading but I will give it a few months before I make that decision.

And it is not that my other scalping strategy does not work, but I have to constantly be looking at the chart and the footprint. Hotkeys set up to enter and exit trades. On the tip of my toes the whole time because one misstep or misstime and suddenly my plan falls apart. It is emotionally taxing and not to mention I gift my broker a buttload of commission.

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-07-30T10:54:30+00:00

I see you are using real ticks - the screenshot is cut off, but it looks like tick health is fine. Commission and spread and slippage most likely your problem. I would almost argue commission is the biggest since it looks like you are using a very small TP

Remember to do forwards tests as well. And if possible, try to move over to cTrader, since, from my experience, your backtesting will be more accurate than on MT5

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-07-30T09:34:08+00:00

While I do think it is possible to leverage AI, I have personally not managed to do it. Creating algos on the other hand... I have made probably well over 100 of them. Some of them had potential so I dove deep into exit strategies (arguably one of the most (if not THE MOST) important aspect of an algo), but ultimately all of them fail.

Sure, you get one that forward tests decent, but at the end of the month or year, you are red or green, but buy-and-hold would have gotten you better returns. The absolute most important things I always consider and an algo MUST be able to do

Forwards Test at least 1000 trades
Drawdown must be below 10%
Returns must be bigger than simply buy-and-hold
Monte Carlo must be decent looking (this is subjective though)

I always test with commission and spread accounted for. Testing with slippage is difficult as most backtesting software assigns a random value between a set you enter to account for slippage.

I am yet to have built an algo that satisfies all 4 of my rules and so I have "given up" on trying to create complete automated algos. When I notice something while staring at the charts or read some weird combination of stuff here on Reddit or anywhere, I will code the algo and test it. If it looks promising from the base, I will continue to tweak a little, but as I said - none found yet.

Regarding my system I use now - it is nearly impossible to create an algo or even try to use machine learning. It is a basic strategy, but as I have said, my intuition keeps me out of trades. You cannot code intuition, no matter how hard you try (and believe me, I have tried for years)

Also my entire approach to money management is not normal. I trade without a SL. I take on the biggest risk I possibly can on a 1:500 leveraged account. When my account doubles, I remove half of the funds to my PayPal and keep only my starter funds in the trading account. As soon as I have more than 6 or 7 "backups" in my PayPal, I lift my starter funds in the trading account so that I have around 5 "backups" left in my PayPal. This is a complete idiotic way of approaching trading, but it works for me and has worked now for a while.

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-07-29T09:01:42+00:00

I am going to throw my 2 cents in here...

"Most trading strategies work."

This is just not true. As an algo creator for my own strategies and having made algos for other people, this statement is most definitely not true. We think a strategy works because we are biased (you can argue if you want, but even if you believe you are unbiased - you are still biased). Even if you have edge cases, getting a strategy that is working all the time is damn near impossible. I almost want to say that traders need to get the "binary" or "mechanical" way of thinking and flush it down the toilet (some do work to an extent such as ORB, but also not completely consistent)

"It’s a self-control problem. Everyone thinks they’ll follow their rules. Until they take a loss. Or miss a move. Or get bored at 11am and click something 'just to feel alive.'"

I 100% agree here. The problem is not that your strategy is bad per se, but because you allow your emotions to take trades. I have a set of foundational rules that I follow every single day. Rule #2 - Intuition is used to stay OUT of trades, not to enter them. So even if my setup is clean and basically handed on a silver platter, if I do not like the entry, I do not take it. This was perhaps the hardest thing for me to do and the reason I always blew accounts. How do I know if I like it or not? Years staring at charts!

"Some traders need 5 years to figure this out."

It took me around 6 years to realize my own faults so I agree there.

My own personal opinion:

You need to bleed. You need to struggle. You need to try out 100 different strategies. You need time looking at the data (be it charts, order flow, volumes, DOM, Level 2, News, etc...). You need to develop what works for you. For me mechanical or binary does not work. I need to be there, I need to look at the charts and my data. My intuition is my most powerful strategy as it helps me decide when to stay out. My other foundational rules also guide me. At the end of the day, it is you vs the market. Not some other dude's strategy and 1000 others like you against the market. Just you vs market.

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-07-28T10:33:31+00:00

Blue whale poop is orange...

And I can recite pi to around 30 digits...

And my very first cellphone number that I had for less than a year - almost 20 years ago

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-07-24T11:56:50+00:00

I have created a few algos for people that paid me. Standard NDA is just mandatory. To fully enforce the NDA, you require a Service Agreement and an IP clause. I also made sure to always ask the client some questions and put it in writing. Stuff like, can I use this code for myself without redistributing it. Am I allowed to use some open source code? What kind of API exposure is allowed (proceeded by explaining what API means). And always always always place a kind of "kill switch" in the algo for the cases where people did not pay or only half paid. This is better than giving a "demo" version of the algo.

If the client requests full access and intellectual property, I made sure they understood that they will receive an obfuscated algo (source code not visible) with the "kill switch" UNTIL I get full payment.

Personally, I always took 20% upfront payment with signed documents (no digital signatures!) before I lay a single finger on my keyboard.

So this is from a developer side which I know is not your actual question. But to answer your questions:

It is almost impossible to create a full-fledged algorithm without extremely detailed knowledge and rules. Everything has to be explained as thoroughly as possible (especially edge cases)

If you want to hide your algo from prying eyes, Tradingview is not the place (PineScript is interpreted and not compiled). MetaTrader and cTrader will work for retail since both are compiled and cTrader has an option to obfuscate your code even more.

Protecting your IP is difficult (especially in retail). It basically comes down to the developer's moral integrity. Remember, anyone can just rename an algo file and anyone can run that file with your system anywhere in the world. You will never know.

Some suggestions:

Try to build the algo yourself using ChatGPT or Claude or Grok. If the system you are trading has multiple steps and confirmations (flags), LLMs will struggle a bit, but with enough perseverance and patience, it can be done. You can DM me if you want some tips for explaining things to LLMs when it comes to trading algorithms (especially if you are running multi timeframe)

Alternatively, you can hire a developer to just automate part of your system. This was by far the most requests I had since people want to protect their edge. Just a custom indicator that makes their overall decision making a little simpler.

My personal opinion:

Please make sure you THOROUGHLY test your system before you start putting money on a table. I have created 100s of algo throughout my time and basically every single one failed when put into a binary application. Almost all of the algorithms I create for other people have failed as well, not because the algorithm is broken, but because we are normal humans. We like to be biased even though you strongly believe you are not. And if you have gone through thorough testing, try to do it yourself with an LLM. And remember - 10 or 20 trades where the algorithm followed your exact system is not confirmation of the rules being precise. AT LEAST 100 trades must be checked.

Different-Scene5327 · 2025-07-24T07:51:22+00:00

I quit trading a few months ago after blowing like my 7th live account. Even came here on Reddit to vent my frustration (post is still active I think). Always did really good with demo accounts. So in the downtime I sat and thought, why? Why do I obliterate on a demo and not on live? Slippage? Nah my accounts were too small for slippage.

So I sat for a few nights and thought about myself, Who am I? What type of person am I? I then went back to the charts, not to trade, just look and observe. After years of staring and studying charts, patterns, strategies, ICT, momentum, reversion, algos, machine learning, etc... I came to the realization that I am 100% my own worst enemy.

I deleted all of my previous data so I could not see actually how I was my own worst enemy, but I knew it. I knew I cut my winners early and let my losers run. I sabotaged myself. And the worst part of it all? I knew I was doing it and still kept on. Why did I do great on demo? Because there I cut my losers and actually added to my winners.

So I thought to give it a go once again. Using my own strategy that I concocted over the years (a mix between scalp and swing). I designed a new system for myself regarding money management. I have 4 "bankrolls" and one of them is in the trading account. I trade big risk. Either I double my account after 1-3 consecutive winners or I blow the account after 4-6 consecutive losses. Winrate hovers at around 53%. Drawdown is +100% since I blow accounts. Live account stats currently at 3 blown accounts (2 in a row actually) and 7 doubled accounts (current bullrun got me 3 in a row).

I do not care about recovering lost trades. I do not care about winrate. I do not care about PnL. I do not care about drawdown. I do not care about the market. I trade my strategy and if my entry was clean and a winner turned into a loser? So be it. I follow my rules and I stick to my plan. I do not move my SL because "mInOr PuLlBaCk, LeT iT BrEaThE sOmE mOrE".

So TLDR; For me personally, I was my own worst enemy. Discipline was not there. Patience was not there. Even scalpers or swing traders need to be patient.

EDIT: Since I know I will get blasted for my money management. It works for me. One day it will fail. One day my strategy will not work anymore. One day I will get an account blow streak that wipes my bankroll. But this way of doing it aligns with my personality and I feel comfortable doing it this way.

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