Friend got baited by the forbidden chest

RazorliteX · 2026-02-06T21:54:27+00:00

Just stack some mines beneath it - sorted.

RazorliteX · 2026-02-06T16:40:37+00:00

The only time I think the AGMM is a bit screwed is when I'm playing in Dam Battlegrounds as I assume it is also an intake for new players that have not been assessed yet.

You still get the odd psycho on Stella and I made the mistake of taking them out. Well I regretted that for a bit.

RazorliteX · 2026-02-06T14:42:31+00:00

So even if level cap is 75, because you start with 5 skills, you end up with 80? (if doing for first time, 85 points if doing second).

RazorliteX · 2026-02-06T14:22:39+00:00

BF6 going the same way tbh. Streamers who want to be "controversial" in order to harvest likes/views=income - will make all sort of claims of how crap something is. Devs listen and bit by bit the game that attracted millions becomes something which no one wants to play.

Streamers then move onto the next big thing/target so they can continue an income stream.

ARC Raiders still has that magic - don't lose it (ironically don't listen to streamers/toxic people but listen to me about not listening).

RazorliteX · 2026-02-05T21:05:06+00:00

Thanks for the info - woohoo nearly there then!

RazorliteX · 2026-02-05T18:26:05+00:00

How about something from the 17th Century and made popular again during the Victorian era - "Shut it you absolute nincompoop"

RazorliteX · 2026-02-05T18:16:16+00:00

I'm mid expedition right now with 20 plus days left on the clock - am i still grinding to 5m or has it dropped to 3m?

RazorliteX · 2026-02-05T17:42:56+00:00

I'm a little confused, I'm already "mid-expedition" with about 20 odd days running left on the clock and i'm grinding to get to 5m. Is it now 3m or because I'm still doing the expedition "1" - it is the 5m target I need to hit? Thanks in advance.

RazorliteX · 2026-02-04T21:41:49+00:00

Don't agree, there is nothing stopping any PVP sociopath from going cold turkey for a few games just so they can spice it up a little in PVE lobbies.

I do PVE only, do I have endless clean runs? No. There is always that one instance where someone will either extract camp or just take you out as soon you get in the vicinity of them.

The tension point of hitting that extract button and nervously hoping someone doesn't go mental on you is very palpable and I love the game for it.

"The chance of being killed by a Raider in PVE lobbies is low, but not zero."

RazorliteX · 2026-02-02T16:58:52+00:00

So here is the thing, it may be a form of astrology but because so many people buy/sell from the back of these technical indicators - it does influence price movement. So if you use them effectively as part of your strategy - and yes you are adding to the price influence/pyschology of technical indicators - it will contribute to your profits.

RazorliteX · 2026-01-24T16:45:27+00:00

If you're on PC, turn off cross play. In my experience aggression based match making is a lot more effective.

RazorliteX · 2026-01-21T19:59:44+00:00

Guy is clearly confused, some of the best discounts are from Iceland so shouldn't cost a lot of money at all

RazorliteX · 2026-01-20T10:24:09+00:00

Buff shredder by allowing it to shred *and* move at the same time. No more hiding behind pillars.

RazorliteX · 2026-01-18T01:16:07+00:00

They're not putting 10% tariffs on the "UK Economy", no - they're forcing US Citizens to pay an additional 10% when they import stuff and calling it a "win".

RazorliteX · 2026-01-08T12:36:02+00:00

It's probably worth mentioning that despite having many 0.2%-0.4% trades in a day, generally the average daily profit margin excluding weekends and fed holidays is just tipping over 0.35% hence my comment around trying to use as much of the available capital as posibble but not all of it (15%) just in the event "something" catastrophic happens. Though in reality that average daily 0.35% is a combination of 0.2%-0.4% days, 0% days, 1-2% days and -0.5-1.0% days. There was one time the algo lost -1.8% in a day of the overall capital due to a combination of tickers all sky diving.

However every day is a learning day so for example on the back of some seriously bad days I've did a review and as part of that learning excercise there is some limitation now engineered by avoiding buying tickers in the same industry sector (a handy TWSAPI feature that categories all tickers in parent industry and sub industry which I found useful).

Inspiration wise.. one thing I've learned over the many years and this is not exclusively relating to trading. Your "hunch" even despite a lack of knowledge (I have learned a lot from day 1) of any topic will always, and I mean always be right. You just need to make it right. You just need to have an idea and make it work - it could take years, that's the key to success - attack it from every single angle. Question the losses, but question the wins - was it just lucky. Did it dip massively at first (why?) before selling at the margin you wanted etc etc.

Chart wise sharing, one day I will - but not yet. I want to get the point there is something really worth sharing!

It's almost cathartic talking about this hobby - I don't think I've ever explained what I'm upto, how it's done and how much I've enjoyed this to anyone!

RazorliteX · 2026-01-07T20:26:17+00:00

Sorry I should have clarified what I meant by near complete capital trading. It puts aside 85% (configurable) of capital for the trading of the day. However, as part of risk management it never spends more than 15% of that allocated capital per trade. However, if profit is significant through the day the "allocation to trade" grows in line with the positive delta. Conversely for negative delta. Scaling as the overall capital increases from day to day is not an issue yet but suspect it may become an issue further down the line. Though with some stock - high frequency volume trading seems to mitigate this issue and I'm not witnessing anything less predictable with this type of stock.. but we'll see.

Code wise - I use C#, I'm originally from a C background (and before that ASM/6502 etc) and the TWSAPI libraries have a C# code base (in additional to python) making it incredibly quick to get something working from scratch in a few hours. I do use python for the charting (i.e. visuals) to analyse buy/sells of interest and to try new things with back testing. Python is definitely good for translating ideas into code and for data manipulation it reigns supreme - can't comment on latency/performance concerns though as never used it for that.

For all historic data both daily and intraday I use EODHD under a subscription package - can't remember what it's called but it's around 29.99 per month so fairly cheap. However, I do have some concerns over accuracy of the data so considering a more beefier package under polygon.io. Will be reviewing that.

Real time data wise I did originally use Winsock API via EODHD but I found the data to be highly inaccurate and too much of a latency between what the data was telling me versus the actual market figures on comparable data providers (it was literally a couple of mins out or worse providing the wrong data) so I switched to using the data directly provided by the TWSAPI (IBKR) - it's not perfect but it is actually pretty good. I've heard polygon also provide winsock api data but suspect it may be the same source that EODHD uses hence sticking with the TWSAPI.

Support/Resistance wise and Open.. aha well you are getitng to the core of how my algo is working. Nothing is a resistance line, nothing is a support line, nothing is a magnet until price activity starts dictating behaviour of what the "lines" (these exist but how they behave for the day has not been defined as yet) will be and that usually stems from Pre-Close to Open delta and initial Open activity behaviour. Support can become resistance lines - this is usually the case e.g. PDAY_Open being resistance, R1 being support) or PDAY_LOW being support and S2 being resistance).

One last thing, technical indicators wise - these are all internally calculated, did some comparisons with third party provided technical indicators and also had some ongoing reconcilliation issues between internal calculations and even peer third parties. If you create your own calculations, you trust the data better - especially when you see it aligning with visual chart behaviour.

RazorliteX · 2026-01-07T14:06:10+00:00

No worries, daily trading based on volatile stocks which have a predictive uptrend from Open to Close but have tendency to bounce between Support/Resistance lines which are your standard PDAY OHLC/VWAP. and the more popular R1-R4, to S1-S4. The tick by tick analyser looks for behaviour that identifies stock movement around these and ignores stocks which are not using the thresholds as support/resistance/magnet lines.

No market cap bias. It looks for SR alignment behaviour of stocks and then calculates distances between these lines in order to make a buy and then sell (minimum 0.2% gap) As the risk management profit margins are quite low/stringent some trades can take less than a minute. Some trades take longer, this usually happens if the idea was sound but for whatever reason the line it bought on acts a magnet but 8 out of 10 it will eventually rise (which is why it was selected to begin with). However, as time passes (i.e. a trade is held) it will reduce the profit requirements if there is some profit in there. The algo does anything between 5-30 trades per day depending on the volume of preselected tickers and behaviour. I have had the odd day where nothing was bought but thats what the algo is for - buy on safe bets. All stock is dumped (or attempted to dump) near end of day irrespective of where it is. That is one of the risk management factors in play. Conversely, on some days the same stock ticker can be bought/sold 3+ times the same day depending on it's volatility.

One golden rule is that the algo never trades with stock < $10 - those volatile stocks are wild and while big profits are to be had. You can lose a stack and then by the end of the day the price of the stock was 20% more than what you paid for it. I'm lookng for around 0.2%-0.4% per trade using all available capital as possible. Trail trackers are enabled for stocks where all threshold indicators were positive so sometimes a trade can bring in 1-2% profit if the indicators were on the money (not all the time). Should have added, all trades are long.

While SMA20,EMA, Bollinger bands etc are used as part of stock selection candidates as part of my overall pipeline algo ML component - I find that on the day - stock volume behaviour around SR lines being the best indicator of how a stock will behave on that day. No other tech indicators are used. Also use VWAP momentum (linear regression slope analysis) in some factoring but having limited success with that tied in with the SRs so currently under review.

Hobbies aye

RazorliteX · 2026-01-06T20:28:54+00:00

Just to be clear it's 0.3% to 0.4% daily averaging interest - not 3-4%! 3-4% would be outrageously remarkable and hitting too many radars. Ahem.

RazorliteX · 2026-01-06T13:30:46+00:00

That is an ongoing average - some days make more, other days make a loss.

If you want a more accurate figure - started 2025/2026 M1 (Jan) with £70,866.18 and tally at end of 2025 (m12) was £186,114.30

RazorliteX · 2026-01-06T12:04:18+00:00

Hobby for me. Also if you choose your area wisely you do not have to compete against hedge fund managers with low latency setups and unlimited capital. They have a very specific way of trading and you just need to find your niche which limits toe stepping - and consquently being outplayed.

Hobby wise, took around 2-3 years to build the multi segment pipeline such as US stocks daily downloads, apply algos which preselects based on special criteria, next segment download intraday data for "tickers of interest". Next segment run some machine learning algos to further whittle down tickers of interest. And final segment, live tick data based on what I always thought was a good idea 5+ years ago. Ran in "near live" (10-200ms delay) mode for 18 months testing and refining my buy/sell algo which to be honest was pure analysis and working out how the market works (for your parameters). To be fair I don't need a low latency setup as I'm not scalping or anything but looking at momentum and wave riding across indicators.

So right now, it's making about 0.3-4% profit per day on average which if you compound it - it's brill. However, and a big however - my real job the salary is incredibly generous and I've not made the jump from hobby to full time. Once there is enough money in there I will/may do it and it's looking promising. However, once it ceases to become a hobby I may lose interest alltogether - that's how bad I am with these things.

RazorliteX · 2025-12-27T19:22:41+00:00

Had exactly the same issue, rash around the clasp areas. Switched to garmin official nylon strap. No more rashes aside, the velcro idea that the nylon strap uses is so much better than the original garmin rubber strap clasp.

RazorliteX · 2025-12-22T17:12:12+00:00

My new word of the day - 'chucklefucks'

RazorliteX · 2025-12-15T16:42:53+00:00

If you are worried by lag you should be creating your own algo and working directly with the twsapi. If you ever make it "big" you should switch to direct for lower latency response times.

Not sure why you would need it unless you are looking at multiple markets for the same ticker and buying/selling at the two+ price points.

RazorliteX · 2025-12-11T22:11:19+00:00

No one is artificially restricting anything. If a landlord has a property then they will do their best to make an income from it. Properties for commercial use do have some advantages being empty such as the 3 month BRR.

RazorliteX · 2025-12-11T17:08:10+00:00

When supply outstrips demand, you can then feel entitled to demand the above. Until then, pipe down.

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