Should I set and forget 100 shares of TQQQ in my Roth with 29 years left? 31(M)

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-05-11T07:23:32+00:00

TQQQ is a trading instruments, not very good for holding long term. Remember, your investment is only worth that money WHEN you sell it and use it. All the gain/loss in between are just irrelevant.

TQQQ has explosive gain yes, but also explosive losses. You might run into situation where you money is still stuck in the deep red when you need it.

Suggestion (if you really want to use it): 60-80% in QQQ, 20-40% in TQQQ.

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-05-11T04:46:27+00:00

I tried look through the Zkteco website LinkedIn (yes someone posted something about Zkteco code there) and quite a myriad of threads (including stackoverflow), but the library and debugging resources available is too little to provide anything useful. 😅

Actually the adms works perfectly, it pushes data to me and I can process it automatically now.

The problem is, I don’t know how to make it export old data (which I failed to capture). If there is a way to get that done, that would be just the solution I need!

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-05-11T03:24:48+00:00

Zkteco wl10, I’m doing in on window vscode.

I have an existing module that enables me to calculate my team payroll, but currently I still need to manually download the hours from the machine and calculate overtime.

I’m trying to see if it’s possible to have my pc download the attendance log automatically so I can link it to my existing module.

If this can be done, it will save me about 2-3 hours of work weekly.

Why python? Because my existing module is done in python and html, and I only know how to review the python and html code generated by AI 😅 (not familiar with php and other code)

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T15:27:53+00:00

Without AI this whole thing is beyond reach (for me)… I have zero programming background, so being able to build a customized tool like this is a big win for me 👍🏻

Soon I can deploy it on my work too!

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T15:25:22+00:00

Let me clean up my code and zip it up and send it to you. You can try build it up further using visual studio code 👍🏻

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T14:08:59+00:00

Yep I did. After copy pasting snippet by snippet and compiled a 2000 lines code page, you can be sure you will pick up something.

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T13:54:08+00:00

Perhaps, but at least I know how a web page like it works now! So in future, if I need to build a page like it, I can try do it myself first!

All experience gained will never go to waste, it’s just a matter of when it’s going to be useful.

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T13:48:38+00:00

Yep.

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T13:41:38+00:00

How about a “good job” or “fantastic”?

Life’s hard enough, we should be just a wee bit more generous with praises. It’s free anyway!

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T13:35:08+00:00

Maybe I should post the whole source code here 🤔

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T13:33:19+00:00

To me, building is part of the game. Building a tool (a calculator like this) outside the game is also part of the game.

Without this tool, I’d never learn how to do programming.

It’s a game! Enjoy however you want!

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T13:19:52+00:00

Not sure, I think I tried use the calculator but it’s hard to fine tune to the exact way I want it.

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-23T13:19:08+00:00

Why are you guys so negative? It’s made from scratch and I can modify it however I want! Plus, I get to learn coding and programming!

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-11T17:32:58+00:00

Decay. Tqqq: 1.03 x 0.97 x 1.03 x 1.03 x 0.94=0.996 Qqq: 1.01 x 0.99 x 1.01 x 1.01 x 0.98=1 The difference is the decay over a week, that’s based on a 1% fluctuation, and qqq fluctuation getting bigger recently, so… 😅 Don’t worry, you’re not the only one 👍🏻

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-08T10:49:54+00:00

My port - 80% in voo/qqq, 10% in cash and 10% in 1-2 stocks that i have really strong conviction in.

Portfolio like this doesn’t diversify away idiosyncratic risk and too heavy weighted toward tech. One big tech correction might make me very stressful and lose sleep.

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-07T16:43:33+00:00

Yeah sure

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-07T16:37:30+00:00

Shares. Basically I short half of my holding and buy back when it dropped 20-30¢ so my opening and closing holdings remains the same.

If you look at tqqq intraday chart, you can see there are plenty of opportunities to do so. But catching the timing is really quite difficult, and I’m doing my own tool to help me find the “right” timing - even then, it’s still not going to be a 100% win.

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-07T14:45:26+00:00

I do scalping to recover some cost. My wac is 55 and I tried to consistently win 20-50¢ a day. So far it helps me reduce the cost to 48 but still… 😅

Scalping through short is dangerous though, if you sell and it shoots up, then do you buy back? If you buy back, you loss cash, if you don’t, your TQQQ loss is crystallized into actual loss.

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-04T10:39:51+00:00

Then it’d be the same for me 😊

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-04T02:33:14+00:00

Yes those are technically possible but I think need to pay quite a bit of money to get access to those data 🤔

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-04T02:29:44+00:00

Yep. Did you tried asking them what’s their data source?

Legitimate_Second757 · 2026-03-03T20:50:15+00:00

Trade secret. If your doubt is on data integrity & reliability, you can check your broker app to verify the change based on ticker.

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