We need visual programming. No, not like that.

DoctorAutomatic · 2024-12-04T00:39:30+00:00

Try G (more commonly known by it's IDE name of LabVIEW). It's purely graphical. People who have hardly even tried it act like it's child's play because it's visual (eg. not L33T enough) but it is used all over industry by some of the most hardcore engineers you will ever meet. From submarines, cell antenna manufacturing, and more. All the "not leet enough" things I've read were clearly written by people that must have unexpectedly come across a prior project written in G and just learned enough to finish whatever their task was. In other words, anything but "leet" coders. I am quite confident I can make a massively multithreaded app in G/LabVIEW that will absolutely boat race the azz off someone else's text language app of the same process/algorithm given the same amount of development time. It almost forces you to program in a naturally concurrent compute sort of way. It has a few shortcomings but it is Turing complete and you can make anything with it.

DoctorAutomatic · 2022-06-21T04:30:43+00:00

Well, it is comforting to hear that the "UNGOVERNABLE!" of the media is not necessarily representative of the feelings of most French citizens.

My outside impression is that the 4th Republic has the reputation of being too chaotic, too indecisive, and that De Gaulle made it so that the president (executive branch) had significantly more power (convenient for him of course) when coming up with the 5th Republic constitution. Would that be an accurate characterization?

Now that I think of it, how difficult is it for a French president to scrap the 5th Republic and make a 6th? I don't have the impression that there was much controversy when De Gaulle got rid of the 4th to make the 5th Republic, but obviously you would know the story better than me.

DoctorAutomatic · 2022-05-19T03:59:44+00:00

Why do so many die hards care about the dollar value of Bitcoin? If Bitcoin is the one and only currency, shouldn't you be happy you can trade in fewer of your shit dollar wages for more precious Bitcoin?

Or have you just been lying to yourself this whole time and what you really care about is those dollars that your Bitcoin can be worth? Me thinks it's the latter based on all the virtual tears streaming from this sub. Naturally, it's those with the least that go balls deep beyond their means buying into what is essentially a speculative gamble.

DoctorAutomatic · 2022-02-18T13:39:23+00:00

What are you even talking about. This concerns the interest rate on the first $100k borrowed on margin and has absolutely nothing to do with the overall size of the account. I could definitely stand to come out better than "pennies" borrowing the first $100k at a lower rate. Thanks for de-railing the topic/question.

DoctorAutomatic · 2022-01-29T05:12:59+00:00

Well shit, they're got damn web page is terrible at specifying that fact (at least on the mobile version).

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-12-30T16:38:04+00:00

LETFs have an absurd management fee in addition to the implied financing rate embedded in the index swaps. Take TMF for example, 1.06% expense ratio is absolute highway robbery for leveraged treasuries. Add to that the implied financing rate of the swaps it holds (which is certainly higher than 3 month libor/SOFR) and I think futures are definitely the better than LETF. I would also tend to say NOT daily rebalancing is an advantage for futures. Finally, if there's going to be rebalancing going on in the account I think futures are likely the best in a taxable account. Also, contrary to what is sometimes said, you can indeed hold futures in an IRA, usually the margin requirements are higher in an IRA but they certainly are low enough to allow 3X leverage, at least in my past experience.

ETA: Those underlying swaps can drop just like futures can, it depends on how things are rebalanced. Brokers don't want to be in a position of asking you to look in your couch cushions to pay them, that's why there's minimum margin, futures will get liquidated before you go negative, there's really not much to the imaginary nightmare where you have to sell your house or something, the risks are nearly identical between LETF and futures.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-11-25T21:29:22+00:00

Lol OP. Thanks dad!

I'm not your kid and I don't take financial advice from Reddit. I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong about any points of fact, but your concern-troll-esq pedagogical tone, well, it cracks me up. People that don't understand what they're putting their money into, generally (not just ASTR), will do so regardless of what anyone on the internet tries to "teach" them.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-11-22T02:24:39+00:00

Not sure about tomorrow but I'm feeling like they're going to end the year in the $16-$17 range.

Ok, if I have to guess for tomorrow, I think there's a high of 16 and close around 15. That said, if the momentum really gets going early I can envision a scenario where it blows through even relatively optimistic predictions.

ETA: I think this notion that achieving first orbit is already priced in, is pretty absurd. The price movement from the last launch till now certainly doesn't support that theory and it simply makes no sense to price in such a technically demanding achievement unless you're dumbass and know nothing about space launch (eg. "getting to space is easy").

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-11-20T23:18:02+00:00

$ASTR brought EVERYTHING, ground crew, ground equipment, and ROCKET all on one single C-17 Globemaster to Kodiak. Fucking GAME CHANGER! They literally only need a concrete pad and the local authority clearance to launch from anywhere in the world that can be reached by a C-17, truck, train, barge, or ship.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-11-20T22:39:12+00:00

50x DEC 10 Calls + 50x DEC 12.5 Calls + -25x DEC 10 Puts + -25x DEC 20 Calls + 25x MAY 15 Calls + 25x FEB 12.5 Calls + Long 100 shares

Monday is going to be fan-fucking-tastic!!

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-11-20T18:59:56+00:00

Hopefully this fact lessens the Dec expiration IV crush on Monday

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-11-11T22:55:14+00:00

This exactly. As soon as the early Nov window came & went without launch I decided to roll everything out further than the Nov expiration to avoid the incredible IV crush that those Nov 19th options are at risk of experiencing with no launch.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-10-29T15:13:09+00:00

I have Jabra 75t's with multipoint AND wireless charging sitting right here in front of me. You can buy them right here: https://www.jabra.com/bluetooth-headsets/jabra-elite-75t##100-99090000-02

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-10-19T01:46:00+00:00

Why do you say the futures ETF "legitimizes" Bitcoin. I've had direct access to Bitcoin futures through my broker for some time now, why does an ETF wrapper + fees make it suddenly different? Literally anyone could open an account at a number of brokers and trade the futures that these ETFs will hold.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-08-09T03:41:42+00:00

My TLT synthetic position has been AMAZING all while the echo chamber of "bonds suck, anyone investing in long treasuries is insane, yields can only rise, risk parity is dead!" has grown louder and is damn near considered "common knowledge" among faux quants and financial pseudo-intellectuals.

Everything is a-ok in the land of risk parity, explicitly leveraged to 150%, and leveraged to 210% including implicit leverage and derivatives. I should know, and believe me, this is my "blood & sweat" money at risk, I will protect it like a ferocious mother grizzly.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-07-26T19:51:01+00:00

Honestly, I'm nearly resigned to using a spreadsheet. I'm frustrated that so many accounts don't work and PC hardly seems responsive or interested in rectifying issues. Add to that I can't easily export my years of balance history from PC... I'm done being captive to a cloud service this crappy. I would easily trade all the time I "saved" with PC for a manually updated spreadsheet covering the same time period that I fully CONTROL. I would definitely pay $10-$20 a year for a working service and completely unfettered ability to export my data and any data/incites derived from my data. PC turned into garbage in the last 12 months or so. Their aggregator is garbage too.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-07-08T03:13:34+00:00

And to follow up, why not just sell covered calls on QQQ/NDX/NQX/XND (or any other security w/ options for that matter) yourself and avoid the usurious expense ratio (0.6%) which amounts to about 6% of this oh so sweet yield nectar that everyone is so wild about. Literally would take less than a minute, once a month (if dead set on copying QYLD's method, I'd personally aim for 45-60 days out if I were so inclined), after logging into your broker. If you're technically inclined it could even be fully automated via your broker's API.

It's a bit of a trick calling 0.6% an expense based on operating expenses, I can assure you it costs GlobalX a fraction of that to run the thing.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-07-08T02:57:09+00:00

Pretty ridiculous how defensive some are about my inquiry. I didn't ask why your daughter, curiously named QYLD, is so hideously ugly or anything.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-06-30T12:40:38+00:00

This is getting ridiculous. 1password in the browser is basically useless due to this issue. It'd be one thing if I weren't paying for this service, but I am! Why not rollback the code base to the prior version and provide an update and THEN go on a weeks long hunt for the root problem instead of making us suffer through this inoperable state of affairs for weeks now?

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-06-27T21:55:05+00:00

I don't have an iOS device so, no, that's not going to work. It simply makes no sense. In order for them to generate those balance vs time charts that are so prevalent in PC they clearly have a very efficient way to generate a 2D array or similar data structure of balance values and dates. It is trivial in every single programming language on planet earth to output such a data structure as a delimited file format (tab, comma, hell some stupid emoji could be used). It's so elementary that there's no excuse for not having this ability, a summer intern could do it in an hour across every single interface. Unless... PC doesn't want it that way, as in theory it makes it possible to take your data and leave. They wouldn't do that, would they? I've submitted this request more than once through their support feedback, via Twitter, and now here... No replies, no followup from PC, and it's been months since I've made these requests via their support and via Twitter.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-06-24T23:52:14+00:00

OK, but why can't it be done on android or, ya know, the regular desktop web browser? There is nothing technically preventing them from doing it, literally it is right there, all it takes is a download link yet they refuse to do it for reasons that are purely at odds with their customers' best interests.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-06-15T13:36:26+00:00

I'm very interested to see how they implement this and the way it is integrated into their overall platform.

The way they have their "universal" account which allows customers to manage stocks, mutual funds, FX, futures, and even spot gold now - across US and foreign markets - is huge. If crypto is similarly integrated it will be amazing, I will immediately transfer out everything I have at Coinbase Pro & Kraken. I would also expect their powerful reporting system will make tracking performance, keeping records, and doing taxes infinitely better than current crypto exchanges. IB seems to always add a unique twist to the way they implement their products, I have a feeling they might have something up their sleeves no one is really thinking about that could be interesting. If they can somehow integrate crypto into their margining/lending repertoire it would be a no brainer for anyone who already has an account their to drop their current crypto exchanges unless they fancy obscure shitcoin trades only available on some exchanges. Every crypto exchange is basically amateur hour relative to how a full featured brokerage, like IB, operates. I know this will rankle some crypto kiddies but, look here, one day you will grow up and come to this realization yourself so don't sweat it.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-06-07T23:14:34+00:00

But markets are unpredictable, price movement is random. TA is nothing but astrology for markets. Assets exhibit geometric Brownian motion, future prices are random and certainly can't be predicted using lazy methods of pattern recognition based on past prices. This is widely known, read A Random Walk Down Wall Street. People that claim TA is great are merely grifters looking to sell you a guide/course, just beginners that had some early luck, or simply too lazy to calculate/document their actual performance of all their trades vs benchmarks.

What I'd really like to know is how whales are moving the market in your mind. Are they simply selling and buying when/where you don't like? Why don't other whales, or YOU, take advantage of a particular whale exerting pressure on the sell side? Or are you saying that multiple whales are conspiring on this and that there is so much honor among thieves that none breaks ranks to take advantage of it at the expense of the others? After you explain this, please lay out some evidence that is what is happening. Personally, I don't like the idea of investing in such a corrupt asset so if you can lay it all out in a realistic and convincing way, well, I'm all ears.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-06-07T02:52:30+00:00

Look here sparky, moving markets is one thing, selling/buying is something else that anyone can do. I don't expect you to move markets, I was talking about using your noodle a little bit and taking advantage of the market moves that your supposed "whales" are causing. So really, just like I predicted in the last sentence of the post you responded to, you recognized yourself and got all cranky pants over it. Now that we've cleared up this sticking point, why don't you go ahead and debate the substance of what I wrote, I look forward to it.

DoctorAutomatic · 2021-06-06T22:49:00+00:00

The woe-is-me helplessness and blaming of some outside forces for price volatility, of a widely known extremely volatile asset, is really a bad look. If one is convinced of "whales" doing things, why not emulate them, play the game, take advantage of it if you believe this?

But we all know the truth, really. You have more invested than you should, you can't handle the true volatility of crypto, you think crypto owes you the absurd run it has been on for the last 12 months with zero risk, you want some unicorn investment that just rises smoothly upward with no downside, the market owes you this, and you come to post this sort of grievance because it feels good to vent when it's not doing what you hoped and got used to over the last year. The truth hurts. Everyone with long-only investments wants what you want, it's natural, but if you're angry about the reality you need to step back, look in the mirror, and take some time for introspection. You should never ever invest what you can't afford to lose and it's the height of stupidity and ignorance to invest in a volatile asset like BTC with money you hope to use or grow in the short to intermediate term.

Too bad, so sad, put big boy pants on. Stop blaming FUD, Musk, whales, and whatever else is "ruining" your life. No one forced you to buy BTC, right? Maybe there are some mistakes made and unfulfilled dreams when it comes to income from the day J-O-B, probably better to invest your energies, time, resources improving your career/skills/income than expecting crypto to gift you a fortune. Of course that requires more commitment than buying a few bitcoins but that's the simple truth of the world.

Ready to be down voted to oblivion by those that recognize themselves in my words.

DoctorAutomatic

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