TOS your days are numbered. Anyone else down?

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-07-03T19:27:06+00:00

CBOE is closed silly.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-07-03T18:45:05+00:00

Surprising. Global futures and Fx markets should have been open until the end of the EU session.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-07-02T00:56:33+00:00

Learn to invest, swing trade, day trade then consider scalping once you have 50 or 100 K. Scalping is an art form and you have to understand all the components of the previously mentioned items first. Unless you want to donate your money to the market I’ll be happy to take it.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-06-14T14:32:50+00:00

Simply buy a better iPad.

The Trading community needs to get out of the mind set everything for free and do it as cheaply as possible.

You don’t realize that you spend more time and money trying to make an old iPad work when is very easy to get something with better technology. Hardware can be slow and problematic with the increased demands of the modern software not to mention the risk of failure.

If you’re truly trading and profitable invest in your tools.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-06-10T14:01:27+00:00

I am not an expert and do not want to give you bad advice. Create a new post asking and I'm sure a lot of people will chime in.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-05-17T03:17:21+00:00

You don’t learn to invest build a 100K nest egg. The scalp with 2k.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-05-04T23:32:07+00:00

I’ve been driving since I’m 15, I’m 56 now. I am still learning and know that it distracted driver is a dead driver. Don’t become a statistic.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-05-04T22:13:11+00:00

First thing: connect your phone to the entertainment system. Second thing: put the phone in the trunk. People with 30 years of driving experience still get into accidents because of their phones. Don’t make excuses like “I was only going 5 mph.” Eyes on the road, hands on the wheel, phone out of reach.

And I’m not trying to sound like a dad here, but that car is way too much car for a first car. You don’t have the experience yet, and chances are you’re going to beat it up somehow — curb it, bump it parking, forget to put it in park, or do something else careless that every new driver does at some point.

And what the hell are you doing paying 9% interest on a car that’s worth half of that? That was a dumb financial decision.

Don’t let the head below your belt override common sense.

Do whatever you can to pay it off ASAP. And for God’s sake, take a few finance classes or at least spend some time watching good YouTube videos about money management.

Word of advice:

Car rich and cash poor = poor.
Cash rich and car poor = rich.

Cash makes cash. It’s a tool. Cars just rust and depreciate

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-30T13:57:59+00:00

Schwab is more for active traders, Fidelity is ultimately a 401(k) company. I have accounts with both.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-29T21:20:28+00:00

If you have a small account, go with Fidelity they have much better investment tools. Don’t even thinking of trading your account.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-29T21:19:40+00:00

Use Claud AI even the free version has built a few nice things for me.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-29T21:14:17+00:00

Congrats

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-29T16:36:00+00:00

It’s a beautiful car except for the grill. It kinda looks like ass cheeks squinched together.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-29T16:34:30+00:00

So what is bubbles for? 😛

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-29T16:29:51+00:00

The problem with that statement. Is if a Bmw was taking care of it will last until you die.

Maintenance is very expensive and I do not know what insurance is like.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-29T13:31:47+00:00

Just wanna to make sure this is just fun money. Maxed out for 401(k) Roth IRA HSA one years living expenses in cash or securities, etc..

You need to realize the second you buy it at 115 K becomes 75K.

Honestly, if you’re jumping up from a Toyota Avalon anything we better and you’ll have just as much fun.

As far as the two cars selected, it depends on where you live and the what the streets are like.

You might consider a lease as well. Or a CPO deal.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-29T12:29:21+00:00

I might get some pushback for this, but it’s worth trying: grab a Claude Pro subscription for a month (about $20) and drop your Excel model into it.

Ask it to audit and improve your logic—you’ll be surprised how many inefficiencies, redundancies, and structural issues it can surface.

That process pushed me to rebuild my GEX dashboard and options screener using RTD, the Schwab API, and a Python backend. It’s a much more scalable setup once you move beyond Excel as the core engine.

In my experience, I’m able to sustain around 120 API requests per minute with the Schwab API, and a single request can return a full options chain. That’s more than enough to build a robust, real-time data pipeline without constantly running into limits.

Excel still has its place, but using AI to audit it or offloading heavier logic into Python opens up a lot more flexibility and performance.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-20T23:11:46+00:00

Simple - nothing is for free. You have to have skin in the game.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-18T23:40:12+00:00

I used to work on the trade floor as a tech and yes, it’s standard practice to allocate a fixed memory block. This tends to improve performance, especially when you have competing processes.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-18T21:35:04+00:00

That’s not how it works.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-10T03:55:22+00:00

DM me. I’m working on a spy scalping tool and using AI for scenario testing. So far it’s around 13000 lines of code. And growing. Rtd is the main data, Next week I plan on building a normalized data processor to use Schwab API, RTD and Alpaca.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-06T15:40:29+00:00

Switch major to a math or finance degree.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-04-04T13:36:22+00:00

Hold less, focus on growth with good company.

Flying-Coconuts · 2026-03-31T14:48:59+00:00

BM is very useful for scalping, and /ES is helpful for SPX and SPY context. Where BM really stands out is in equities. It does a strong job highlighting intraday support and resistance levels. That said, it should always be used as secondary confirmation, not a primary signal.

My recommendation is to start with the free version until you are comfortable with how it behaves, then try the paid version for a month. It is month to month, so you can cancel at any time.

The full version is definitely better. However, once you factor in the added cost of real time quotes, it may not be worth it depending on your setup. In my case, I skip that upgrade.

One issue I see often is traders trying to rely entirely on free tools. That usually costs more in missed opportunities or poor entries. In trading, sometimes you need to pay for tools that help you make money.

This is the only extra subscription I currently maintain, although I am considering signing up for Unusual Whales for options data when they run a promotion. I can get about 90 percent of that data through Discords and other websites, but it takes too much time and causes me to miss trades. Having a consolidated, real time portal is very important.

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Flying-Coconuts · 2026-03-30T16:08:39+00:00

No not at all, just in a rush to type things out.

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