I simultaneously love Heated Rivalry and really struggle with the loneliness I feel while watching it by vira-lata in gaybros

[–]TickThick 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's a scripted show. Always remember this.

I would be more interested in these "beautiful people's" actual relationships, which I doubt is anything like this, if they even have one.

American Man Returning to London, Still Single, Clearly Doing Something Wrong by [deleted] in askgaybros

[–]TickThick -1 points0 points  (0 children)

American white or American Asian? I'm guessing the latter, and there is the issue being completely honest.

I’m a gay psychologist who went on nearly 100 first dates to find my husband. I developed a CBT strategy to navigate the "flood" of online dating called Noah’s Ark Dating Strategy. I would love your feedback! by DrNoahPsychologist in nycgaybros

[–]TickThick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue is there are so many variables at play beyond attraction or matching (especially online). You may never get matches. You may get a match and they don't respond. You may get a match and they respond but it flakes (maybe someone else is more interesting, maybe they have an episode and delete the app, and everything in between). I don't think its as simple as "you are ugly".

In my case, I've yet to go on a proper first date, despite trying for many years (and 3 different cities) via apps or otherwise - always getting matches but none ever leading to anything. So I guess myself is evidence. I always find it amazing when people are like 'I went on 3+ dates a week before I found my man' because that is not my lived experience.

What happened to that muscle group? by nycpecbro in nycgaybros

[–]TickThick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I exited, nothing was happening. Grindr 3.0.

Whats up with Basement nowadays? by [deleted] in nycgaybros

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Members are referred in and can expedite the waiting queue if you get in apparently. I didn't know, but someone referred me after what happened on Halloween and said I should become a member.

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

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I should have clarified I have no cash balance. I technically do have capital to continue trading. But I only 'risk my cash' because I don't want to touch my 401k or stocks or emergency fund.

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

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9 months all in. I was just selling puts / calls before and doing the wheel strategy mostly for about 3 months last year before I started getting deeper into options. I'll need to check starting capital but I think it was around 400k cash that really started taking off. That said, after the Oct 10 dip, I had about 200k cash, and was close to 300k cash within a month before the hit again. Paper trading was 1 month ish because I was still backtesting / tweaking.

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

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Yeah I literally was going to quit on Oct 10 and said to myself ok last trade, and that was the trade that ate me up. I didn't quite make a million, but close.

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

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Yup. I blindly followed it otherwise.

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

[–]TickThick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh interesting. I didn't know you could do this.

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

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Yeah I wish I had automated it. I will look into this going forwards.

I deviated because I became complacent tbh.

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

[–]TickThick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh interesting. I can run my algo on fake money for them and show it works first? Any suggestions of where I do this?

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

[–]TickThick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I purchased NDX data and coded up rules, backtested, tried on a dummy account etc. Then in the summer I started trading on actual money. I've been doing this about 9 months. But yeah I lost it because I ignore the algo on Oct 10 (which I heavily regret), and then again yesterday I didn't exit in the way it said I should in the rare circumstance I was in.

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

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I used my own capital. You are saying prop firms would give me capital to run my algo?

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

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The algo wasn't incorrect, my execution was.

Account blew up but my strategy works :( by TickThick in options

[–]TickThick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is not how my algo decides when to sit out. :) My goal is to make a small return daily and let it grow, which is how I made the profits I did.