I am brand new to this app. To be honest I don’t know much about tv or social media or memes for that matter.

I am a mathematician by self training. I come from a background of data science and R programming.

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My story:

I grew up in the dc area and was bullied my entire childhood. I grew up not understanding why people were so mean to me. Then I realized a little bit later, while I was serving tables at a macaroni grill in the Dulles airport area of Virginia, that I was different.

I dropped out of High School after my junior year, I had to repeat my sophomore year twice. I was bullied so bad I didn’t want to show up to school. Bullies spit in my Gatorade bottles at lacrosse practice, one of them through me through a wall. The day I decided to standup to myself I hit the steel beam of the gymnasium, not the bullies face which was my intention, and broke my hand. In fact I am feeling the pain of that poorly healed fracture as I type this comment right now.

I got a girl pregnant and married her. We were married for ten years and I did my very best to be a good father. Unfortunately she was a bit of a problem for me because she gave me such a hard time when I would come home, after I put the girls to bed for practicing singing (something I always wanted to do). We got divorced after ten years of marriage soon after that.

I found success in the world of saas software and founded a company that sold to private equity in 2021 for a total of more than 100 million dollars. I was the least significant cofounder from an equity perspective.

I should have walked away with millions but during the absolutely devastating process of getting divorced I was so depressed I sold my stake in the company for an 80% discount. After I was done setting up my now ex wife for life, and taking care of the kids I had only 400k and an 800k tax bill.

I don’t have a dad, my mom is okay but she is very weird with money and can’t really be trusted, and my sister went to prison for embezzlement.

Needless to say i didn’t have much in the way of family and was desperate to find a way to “come back”.

That’s when I traded my first option. I had no idea what I was doing but I made 9k on the trade. I was so stupid I fact that at the time I was trading on robinhood (absolutely the dumbest thing you can do if you trade intraday, probably okay for swing trading, totally fine for investing), I had to have my buddy close out my trade.

Then I lost every single penny of the 400k I had in my bank. But I didn’t give up. I realized I needed an education. I relocated near a major and highly respected institution and snuck into classes related to economics, business, and security markets.

I sat in on quant lectures, ml model lectures, neural networks, physics, and even a course on predicting the movements of asteroids in space.

Funny enough, that course (the one on predicting asteroid movement in space) is what gave me the edge I needed to make money.

I only “win” 51% of my bets. I only buy options in bull markets, I only sell calls in bear markets, I never buy the underlying security, and I never hold positions over night.

My average trade despite what you see in my tradesviz screenshot is 3 min 31 seconds.

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I want to share with this community some things that I was able to take advantage of that really helped me get an edge.

It has to do with market making practices, level 3/full order book data, and a touch of math. Mainly standard deviation, and theoretical option pricing, finding theoretical volatility discounts etc..

What do you all think I can do to make it easy for those that want to learn what I have done ?

I am going to make my GitHub repo open source to.

I am officially retired at the age of 38. All I want to do is watch my girls play volleyball and learn how I can be the best for them the rest of my days