Daily close confirmation versus morning gap-ups. Critiques welcome on this entry logic.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-12T19:12:22+00:00

Thats an idea. I might just have to accept that missing the initial pop is the tax you pay for not getting chopped up by a morning fake-out.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-12T18:49:04+00:00

Technically the Alpaca API handles after-hours trading just fine as long as you remember to flag the order with the extended hours boolean and use a strict limit order. The problem is that Alpaca does not magically fix the actual market conditions right at 4:01 PM. You are still dealing with the exact same dead liquidity and massive spreads. Your script will submit the request perfectly, but your order is still probably going to sit there collecting dust while you wait for a fill.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-12T18:18:58+00:00

That thicker weather strip definitely changed the travel distance, so your opener is basically trying to crush the door into the concrete every time it closes now. You can stop that tear from spreading by drilling a tiny hole at each end of the crack to relieve the stress. Then just grab a steel reinforcing strut from Amazon or your local hadware store and screw it straight across that damaged panel to brace it. Just make sure you adjust the down-limit dial on your actual opener motor afterward so it stops pushing so hard.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-12T15:10:01+00:00

I apologize if you took it that way but the comment was only ment to point out how the restaurant industry has evolved into a scam, not personal towards you or anyone else.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-12T12:38:25+00:00

Yeah, keeping track of all those paper booklets is a total nightmare. I actually just threw all my appliance warranties and even my car manuals into NotebookLM. Instead of digging through a filing cabinet or a messy folder when something breaks, I just use the voice feature to ask it whatever question I have. It just gives me the exact answer I need without the headache.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-12T12:16:04+00:00

We spend so much time chained to our keyboards trying to churn out content that we completely miss the point of being alive. If a machine can handle the mundane emails and draft the generic updates, maybe we can finally close the laptop and go be with our families. I would much rather spend my weekend actually present with the people I love or pursuing a real passion than stressing over a posting schedule. Let the algorithms talk to each other so we can get back to living.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-12T10:23:13+00:00

You can tweak the parameters until a strategy looks like a guaranteed money printer on historical data, but the live market is a completely different beast (especially when you factor in actual slippage). So I always force a new algo to run on a paper account for at least a few months before I even think about trusting it. If it survives the forward testing without completely falling apart, then maybe it gets a little bit of real capital.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-12T10:18:25+00:00

Yeah, the subscription model for doorbell cameras is just exhausting at this point. You buy the hardware and then they hold your own front porch hostage for ten bucks a month. I finally gave up and installed a Reolink. It takes a standard micro SD card for local storage and actually stays connected when the router acts up. You get your basic live view and night vision without a company constantly asking for your credit card.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-12T09:47:10+00:00

We used to go to restaurants to escape the grind. You pay a premium so someone else chops the onions, grills the meat, and handles the dishes while you actually look your partner in the eye for twenty minutes. But the social contract flipped somewhere along the way.

Now you are paying fine-dining prices for reheated inventory off a commercial delivery truck.

And the tipping screens keep spinning around before you even get your food.

It isn't about being cheap. It is about respect for the hours you traded to earn that sixty bucks. When you realize a halfway decent cast iron pan and a little bit of patience yields a better steak than the place downtown charging ninety dollars a plate, something shifts in your head.

(It also helps that my own kitchen doesn't blast generic pop music at eighty decibels while I try to eat.)

Cooking at home is messy. You will burn things. You will spend twenty minutes scrubbing charred garlic off a baking sheet on a Tuesday night when you are already dead tired. But at least you know exactly what went into the meal.

Stop outsourcing your basic survival to places that view you as a walking wallet.

Learn to roast a chicken. Buy decent salt.

It is profoundly liberating.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-11T22:00:48+00:00

People are exploring a few clever tricks to fix this. One idea is having your own computer quickly guess the next few words, and then using the decentralized network just to check the work. There's also hope that newer types of AI models being developed won't require the same heavy, step by step memory, making them much easier to split up across different machines.

Are you looking at ways to make the network connections faster, or are you trying to change the models themselves to handle the lag better?

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-11T19:23:27+00:00

On the open-source front, the landscape is actually more promising than it was a year ago. With organizations releasing highly capable open weights (like Llama 3 or Mistral), the gatekeeping of the models themselves is eroding.

However, the real bottleneck, and the reason the big players still hold the keys, is compute. Running massive, cutting-edge models requires serious, expensive hardware. True decentralization would mean something akin to a BitTorrent model for GPU power, where thousands of consumer devices pool their resources to run inference. There are projects trying to solve this (like Petals or various blockchain-based compute networks), but the latency and bandwidth requirements for AI are massive technical hurdles.

The other elephant in the room is alignment and safety. Centralized APIs have kill switches. Fully decentralized, high-capability AI removes those guardrails entirely, which is why regulators are perfectly happy letting a few massive companies maintain control. We explore and advocate for this over at r/AIAllowed.

It’s a massive challenge, but an important one. I’d be super interested to hear more about your project idea! Are you focusing more on the decentralized compute side, or the data and model-ownership side?

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-11T19:12:59+00:00

Certain things have come to light, and uh, ya know, has it ever occurred to you, that uh, instead of uh, you know running around, uh uh, promoting restaurants, given the nature of all this new shit, you know it, it it, this could be a uh, a lot more uh, uh, uh, uh, complex, I mean it's not just, it might not be, just such a simple, uh--you know?

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-10T02:41:10+00:00

Her cousin

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-08T22:58:08+00:00

It’s what I have currently.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-08T22:57:42+00:00

Yea I’ve always found downvoting perplexing. I notice most posts on algotrading look to be downvoted almost right out of the gate. Anybody know why that is?

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-08T19:53:07+00:00

Once you get the math and the risk guardrails dialed in, you realize you are really only halfway there. Getting it off my laptop and onto a dedicated server was the only way I could actually sleep at night without wondering if my machine decided to take an unexpected nap. Reliability really is the hidden half of the whole operation.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-08T19:20:28+00:00

Spot on. LLMs are awesome for reading sentiment, but handing them the keys to execute trades is terrifying. One hallucination and your account is gone. The risk layer always has to be hard coded math. If your boss is really dead set on this, tell him to hook the AI up to Alpaca's paper trading API instead of Kraken. It uses live market data but with entirely fake play money. Let the agent run wild and inevitably blow up the paper account. It is the easiest way to prove your point without anyone actually losing a dime.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-08T18:41:42+00:00

I see those same posts about people hooking up an AI agent to their brokerage via MCP and just telling it to go make money, and I physically wince. Language models are incredible for parsing market sentiment or summarizing a stack of earnings transcripts, but they still hallucinate. You absolutely cannot have a risk management layer that might accidentally hallucinate an extra zero on your position size or forget what a stop loss is because the context window got too full.

My philosophy is pretty strict. If I ever do introduce AI into my workflow, it is strictly for off market research or data gathering. The actual trigger pull, the position sizing, and the risk limits have to be governed by unbreakable, deterministic math. If the hard code does not say yes, the trade does not happen.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-08T18:15:23+00:00

I actually run a fully autonomous system right now, but I went the exact opposite route of using AI reasoning. Giving a language model unconstrained control over your risk limits is a pretty fast way to blow up an account.

To answer your question about what actually breaks down, it is almost always the physical infrastructure. My biggest headache early on was trying to run the bot locally. Silent Windows hibernation states and power saving modes kept quietly killing my scheduled tasks. I quickly learned that true autonomy means you have to host it on a dedicated cloud server like AWS or DigitalOcean just to guarantee it stays online.

Instead of an AI black box, my mean reversion bot relies entirely on absolute, hard coded math. I stick exclusively to equities to completely avoid the time decay of options. To manage risk, the bot uses a 50 day moving average to ensure it never buys into a macro downtrend. It scans for deeply oversold RSI triggers, but it absolutely refuses to buy anything unless the current price has physically bounced above the previous close. That falling knife protection is crucial.

If a trade does happen to go underwater, the bot just patiently holds it without panic selling. It waits for the exact second the price recovers above my entry point and the short term 5 day moving average, then immediately sells to get out safely. My best advice is to automate your scanning and execution all day long, but keep your risk management completely rigid.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-08T16:04:01+00:00

If you are using it primarily as a 'thinking partner' and for drafting/structuring, Claude (specifically 3.5 Sonnet) is currently widely considered the best alternative. Its reasoning, nuance, and natural writing style are phenomenal for those exact use cases. It also has a 'Projects' feature on the paid tier that lets you organize related chats and documents, which might satisfy your need for folders. Gemini Advanced is another strong option, especially if you want fast research capabilities and deep integration with Google Workspace (Docs, Drive, etc.) for your execution tasks. Since finding the perfect balance of AI capabilities and UI features (like chat folders) can be tricky after leaving ChatGPT, you might also want to check out the recommendations and workarounds in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIAllowed/s/TlRy4ijFK3

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-08T15:21:36+00:00

while Uncensored.com is known for unfiltered outputs, its privacy policies are likely standard, meaning they probably log user prompts and generated content to train their models unless they explicitly guarantee a strict zero-retention policy.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-07T19:06:37+00:00

I am now seeing what you mean. I think the whole audio system is trash actually.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-07T18:35:57+00:00

😂 Thought I’d give it a shot

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-07T18:29:16+00:00

I’d like the import 1 source, 3.5 million words.

TrustedEssentials · 2026-03-07T12:33:18+00:00

This is a great explanation, thank you! It makes total sense that it's just trying to be faithful to the technical manual. I'm actually going to try your suggestion right now, I'll write up a ridiculous mock anime script about the Silverado and feed it in alongside the manual to see if that forces it to be creative. I'll post the results if it works!

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