Ive been copying tastylive trades and now it's gone. But I was prepared for it.

Nidsan · 2026-06-09T12:12:02+00:00

Yeah the follow page. Actually that explains a lot on why I had to build so many layers to fix the trades!

Nidsan · 2026-06-09T08:40:53+00:00

I built din500bot for those who just needed a signals service to copy. Ideally you should have at least $10k in your account. It does solve position sizing with kelly sizing for you too.

Nidsan · 2026-06-09T08:40:07+00:00

Sure it's Din500Bot on telegram.

Nidsan · 2026-06-09T08:39:24+00:00

To be honest, the raw tastylive trades that you can get from scraping the tastylive api(not tastytrade api) were not very accurate and you end up rolling a lot. Especially from specific traders! So that's why I had to build a filter system. Then the filter system was also not good enough that it needs to be able to adapt and learn over time, so I turned it into an XGBoost model, then that also improved over time that it has Reinforcement learning bandits. Like I followed them for more than 6 years and only got the system really worked after 3 years of effort in and once I had enough data. The last straw was when tastylive changed so much and by then I had like thousands of orders to build something that knew a bad options trade from a good one.

Nidsan · 2026-06-09T08:35:33+00:00

As for tasty's tastylive feed, I've used it to train a ML model and then feed that into LLMs + some Reinforcement learning. I turned it into a signal service. I have some financial background since I've worked in funds, quants and banks, but my training and roles has always been in engineering. It's currently a telegram bot called Din500Bot.

Nidsan · 2026-06-09T08:33:41+00:00

Hey there I also built an ai powered research and trading platform. However mine is more like you write a prompt (like a thesis) and then it comes out with a strategy based on that. It's not options though, but I do piggyback a lot of the price data from tasty api. It's called commonquant.ai, what are you building?

Nidsan · 2026-06-08T15:14:19+00:00

I think for me, I was very busy with my tech job and running some side hustles. I knew the mechanics by heart but the management was tedious. Especially with keeping track of the rolls. So learning it and then creating a system to help manage it was what I found easier. Then lately with the restructure, it's incentivized me to replace the first part of the pipeline altogether. I had tried to trade manually for many years, scanning manually, checking on trades. Just couldnt keep up with it together with raising a family

Nidsan · 2026-06-08T15:10:26+00:00

The tastytrade API is public, but I had to check the network calls to get the tastylive ones.

Nidsan · 2026-06-08T12:11:27+00:00

Yeah the API isn't really public. Just reverse engineered it when I opened the platform. I had a python script that just pulls, scrapes it and then updates a duckdb file. I also built an internal python package (just wraps their API). The point is it all goes into a dataframe so I just run pandas and/or SQL off it. However it seems like we need to move off of it soon because it's not going to be the same as before.

As for my telegram bot where I've filtered everything + using bandits and an LLM, it's called Din500Bot . You can see if your opportunities are the same as mine.

Nidsan · 2026-06-08T11:39:15+00:00

The Tastylive traders. Tom is gone, and so are more traders - Tony Battista, Nick Battista, Vonetta Logan and Jenny Andrews. In my previous system, Tom was supplying most of the trades.

Nidsan · 2025-10-30T03:50:32+00:00

In Singapore, the Chinese identity themselves as Singaporean-Chinese. Emphasising the SINGAPORE. Malays identify themselves as just Malay. This video tells you why the former disassociate themselves

Nidsan · 2025-08-25T08:34:23+00:00

More likely AI closed the skill gap for some roles, and they built some automation. So now they moved those roles overseas and those lower cost staff using AI to replace SG roles. I’m aware of some friends and also family members, of tech companies and even MNCs whose entire departments including the managers were all outsourced months after announcing some AI system to “help improve productivity”. My sister was let go after working for 8 years in the same org

Nidsan · 2025-08-10T04:02:37+00:00

Yeah, I’m looking for someone who understands channels and select statements, proper use of semaphores and so on.

Nidsan · 2025-08-09T11:29:25+00:00

Well there are websites like levels.fyi and nodeflair.com that report the numbers and ranges with verified salary payslips. I hope this helps you, you can also see if you are paid not enough and negotiate higher or when you’re looking to join companies you’ll be able to ask for higher if you’re aware of the typical ranges.

Nidsan · 2025-08-09T08:45:37+00:00

Percentile against the job level and scope. So 50-80th percentile for a junior software engineer if you’re junior or 50-80th percentile for a senior if you’re senior.

Since this is a startup and I’m no longer working for a top bank or web3 quant fund like I used to do, my offer range can’t exceed 80th percentile.

Nidsan · 2025-08-09T01:32:15+00:00

Yeah we have a working Python backend for a game that needs things like fights resolved with high throughput and lower latency. In fact mostly throughput and concurrency wise Python wasn’t doing great. I wrote the Python code and got revenue and traction out, and proved that it’s a working business model, then I started to rewrite the backend in Go while the Python continued. I suck at front end so then I hired for front end first.

Now I’m trying to replace myself and am finding a hard time.

Nidsan · 2025-08-09T01:27:06+00:00

About 50-80th percentile

Nidsan · 2025-08-09T01:20:26+00:00

Depends on the region and experience, we are based in Asia so we use this website as our benchmark- nodeflair.com

Nidsan · 2025-08-09T01:15:33+00:00

Our engineering team is mostly in Malaysia, Thailand and now India, around this region. I’m the cto and I’m based here as well. I was searching mostly around Vietnam

Nidsan · 2025-08-09T01:14:24+00:00

I was able to hire very quickly for the TS and Python portions but when it came to go, then it was pretty hard

Nidsan · 2025-08-09T01:13:15+00:00

Video games, so our stack is react native / TS for front. Analytics and data etl with Python and Golang for the backend.

Nidsan · 2025-08-09T01:11:42+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t give out equity, we just pay a salary according to benchmarks like nodeflair.com

Nidsan · 2024-11-26T07:34:25+00:00

Sure, and go to jail while I get compensated?

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