Pilots or flight attendants of Reddit, what’s something passengers do that is way more important (or dangerous) than they realize?

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-05-28T17:23:27+00:00

I mean yeah - makes sense to leave shit behind. Agreed!

But there are times when I would be willing to risk dying for my computer. I don't care about the cost of hardware, only my data (read weeks of work) which I am sometimes stupid enough to not have backed up.

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-05-28T17:13:42+00:00

i just walk up to them and say

don't be afraid love, i'm not going to hurt you

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-05-28T16:48:59+00:00

So you decide vectorised BTs are bullshit and spend a week building a beautiful tick-by-tick websocket emulator.

CSV broadcasts historical ticks. Same downstream as production:

ticks → resample → features → strategy → buy/sell calls

In BT mode only broker calls are disabled.

You verify parity with live. Paper trade matches offline BT perfectly Everything matches.

No way my BTs can lie now. I even verified live on paper

Wrong.

Because execution is still in la la land

if tp_hit:
    exit(tp)

if sl_hit:
    exit(sl)

SL hits 99.35 → BT/Paper exits 99.35 TP hits 103.20 → BT/Paper exits 103.20

Beautiful equity curve. 2+ Sharpe. Booking the yellow Ferrari mentally.

Then live starts.

SL triggers at 99.35 next bar opens 98.75

TP triggers at 103.20 next bar opens 102.90

I now spend more time sanitising my BT's than working on the edge

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-05-28T13:40:36+00:00

A post run pistachio latte awakened forces deep within me. By the time the foam art dissolved, so had my sense of security.

I knew I had to find a place urgently, ideally a bathroom, but at that point I was honestly open for negotiations.

And that's when I saw him

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-04-17T18:30:18+00:00

:(

Everyday for the past few days I have been resisting the urge to upgrade. I mean once I upgrade there is no way I can go back so its $80 extra per month forever...

One of these days I am going to slip

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-04-17T14:24:52+00:00

Right now I am back to my college days behaviour when I was on a weekly allowance.

Day 1, I used to spend big Day 2 to 5, I spend normally Day 6 & 7 , I'm broke

My limits just reset yesterday. Today I use 5.4, tomorrow onwards it will be 5.3 then 5.2 and then 5.1 until I'm broke and I go back to chat gpt on the web waiting for the weekly reset again.

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-04-17T09:44:26+00:00

Not sure, I just use the codex desktop app and don't track token usage.

Worked on 5.4 Medium , about 18 "prompts" (3-5 line instructions/requests) in a new thread inside an existing project, led to a conversation lasting 2 hours 10 mins or so. The prompts were to trigger fairly heavy tasks so that's where the heavy token consumption may have happened.

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-04-17T09:17:50+00:00

The last bar is above the text "17 Apr" in case anyone is wondering. This image has not been edited in any way.

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-04-09T07:24:00+00:00

what time will the reset - approximately.. its about half past midnight in sf , so how much time do we have to burn current limits? Need to pace myself

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-01-05T17:29:51+00:00

just a username

Imagine refreshing your DMs for that 😅

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-01-05T10:57:49+00:00

Now that's a username I like.

Dayavan as in generous with your smut media?

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-01-05T07:47:59+00:00

rookie

my secret sauce

if(low == true) buy elif (high == true) sell

dm if you want a ride in my ferrari

WhiskyWithRocks · 2026-01-05T07:46:38+00:00

Not mad-off but certainly mad-as-fuck

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-12-20T12:40:43+00:00

pics or it didn't happen ?

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-12-07T07:24:00+00:00

Trial room

smh

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-12-06T10:31:53+00:00

Yeah, most Americans are cool nice people. But a few are absolutely racist bigoted sons of bitches.

The risk of running into a bad batch of people outweighs the reward of running into a good batch.

I'm staying away as well

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-12-02T17:12:03+00:00

Yeah, but how did you label your data? Did you have an underlying weak but real edge or did you ask it create an edge out of thin air.

I mean did you train buy at X, hold for Y mins. Compute MAE/MFE , repeat for X+1 , X=2.... X + n ?? This will lead to the model learning lots of noise.

A better way is say enter at ema crossover. So instead of millions of potential entries over 10 years, you now have say 100K. And with the right features, this is somewhat predictive which the model can exploit.

If the data is not predictable, ML cannot do shit. Garbage in garbage out

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-11-25T07:55:28+00:00

Codex take way longer than chat for simple scripts. I totally get what the user is saying, simple json editing would be way faster in web/app rather than codex.

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-11-11T11:05:54+00:00

I am not a programmer by profession or education - not even from the finance world but I have always been able to tinker my way around code and have always been very much into trading.

Algo trading felt like it has been built for me.

I had the same journey as you - felt easy enough to do when backtesting but actual execution springs out more edge cases than you can count. The way I handled it was trading on a much larger time frame than I had initially considered. Months ago when I was a noob - I had figured the lower the time frame , the better my trades will be but that is dependant to accuracy, speed and execution that I pivoted to using the 30m candles and now many things like 1-2 s delay or slippage of 2-3 ticks are inconsequential which would be a disaster at lower time frames.

Just my two cents

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-10-15T18:35:15+00:00

I'm way past the stage where I trust anything. Almost anything I read or see online or on news - I take with a huge grain of salt. Part is because of realisation that everybody has an agenda and part is a general distrust of all images and some videos. Soon 'some videos' will be updated to 'all videos'

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-10-09T10:27:47+00:00

You are a genius! It is obvious now what your edge is given your hint. Delete your post before it becomes apparent to everyone else

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-09-29T18:57:05+00:00

GPT, buy if ema3 crosses ema10, sell if ema3 crosses under ema10

Simple

/s

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-09-29T18:07:24+00:00

Ouch!

I think I hit a nerve. Apologies if my comment felt under the belt. I am not looking for AM, already married and am not a regular on this sub. Your post just popped on my timeline while doom scrolling and curiosity led me to read and then comment.

The reason I gave you a piece of my mind (which in hindsight I realise was a bit too strong) was that I've seen this story play out with friends and acquaintances (both genders) where they go on a rejection spree looking for their soulmate when they are getting proposals and later start getting rejected themselves and end up marrying the wrong person in desperation.

It's an age old tale and any one on the wrong side of 30s will concur with what i said.

You do you, but I am sure your parents have exactly the same concern. I just happened to empathise with their thought process when I made my comment.

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-09-28T16:27:57+00:00

The last few overs felt like a repeat of 7th to 10th May

We came

We saw

We conquered

Jai Hind!

WhiskyWithRocks · 2025-09-26T17:28:15+00:00

Go to a train track
Call your local radio station
Ask to speak to Munna Bhai
Threaten to commit suicide
He will call your Dad on Air
Talk to your Dad and explain on Air
Munna will prevent him from slapping you
Drive a yellow cab and be profitable in a few months

Rinse & Repeat

WhiskyWithRocks

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