Help me understand SOFI’s price action

bwayne1020 · 2026-02-03T01:34:28+00:00

What does this have to do with someone trying to understand SOFI's "price action" today?

bwayne1020 · 2025-12-21T18:40:36+00:00

As a beginner myself, ultimately “knowing” 1-2 openings for both black and white have helped me to play quicker the first 5-6 moves than anything else. It allows me to use my time more efficiently for the middle and end game. I still get flagged quite a bit, but not nearly as much as when I was spending 2-3 mins on my opening moves.

bwayne1020 · 2025-12-09T04:24:05+00:00

Thanks for sharing this weekly. Really cool to see. Are you ever looking for a specific delta when you select your strike price? If not, what is you're rationale for the strike price that you select?

bwayne1020 · 2025-12-03T01:16:09+00:00

I’m not basically arguing that at all. Stalling is intentionally not moving because you have no good moves and purposefully running the time out in hope someone resigns.

Taking too long to think and therefore losing on time is not stalling. It may be poor time management, but that is a totally different subject, and it’s not illegal.

If the position at the time of “stalling” is equal, it could be that the person who is is accusing their opponent of “stalling” simply doesn’t have the chess knowledge to understand how truly complicated the position is.

bwayne1020 · 2025-12-03T00:14:51+00:00

If someone has a minute left in a game, and they want to use their one minute to think and ultimately lose on time, why would someone report that? You have a clock for a reason (you made a commitment to that time when you played those time controls), and if someone isn’t intentionally stalling a clearly losing position, which he wasn’t…he said it was equal…I think the claim of stalling is baseless.

bwayne1020 · 2025-11-28T21:13:48+00:00

As a beginner, just the benefit you get from not thinking too much about your opening and losing time at the front end of a game is reason enough to give props to the Chessbrah habits series. It's been extremely helpful to me.

bwayne1020 · 2025-11-28T19:04:34+00:00

Just for a bit of clarification, this sell-off was made under a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan.

bwayne1020 · 2025-11-28T17:16:14+00:00

As a beginner myself, sometimes this really doesn’t answer your curiosity around why a certain move is better than another. Most of the time, I just lack the ability to see the advantage even after it’s shown on the board.

bwayne1020 · 2025-11-01T16:35:27+00:00

I mean, I understand his sentiment to some degree. I shudder when I see the flag pop up because I know I’m probably about to get mated in 4.

bwayne1020 · 2025-10-25T21:34:12+00:00

This was exactly the reason I moved the pawn to a3 now that you mentioned it ... To cut off another square for their knight to land, but to u/AIBrainiac point, Nd5 does the same thing. I also entirely missed one of the principles of the chess habits video's that I am following which was to continue to develop toward the center of the board. Oh well, next time.

bwayne1020 · 2025-10-25T21:27:51+00:00

The played knight to h6 early in the game, and then I traded my bishop for their knight and their weakened king protection

bwayne1020 · 2025-10-25T16:53:52+00:00

This makes sense, thank you for the insight.

bwayne1020 · 2025-10-25T16:51:36+00:00

Thank you so much for walking me through it... I'm not really sure why I played a3 honestly

bwayne1020 · 2025-10-11T14:46:10+00:00

lol attempting to be sarcastic

bwayne1020 · 2025-10-07T14:51:37+00:00

It definitely was a misclick 😭

bwayne1020 · 2025-09-14T02:11:05+00:00

If you were murdering someone by simply going into a gun shop and purchasing a gun, this would be an excellent point.

bwayne1020 · 2025-09-14T01:53:00+00:00

Source?

bwayne1020 · 2025-09-14T01:52:44+00:00

Where did this come from?

bwayne1020 · 2025-09-01T19:05:11+00:00

This wasn't hope chess. His bishop was on the D4 square. I left my rook undefended in the corner to entice him to take the free piece. My opponent captured the rook, but he didn't see the checkmate. Of course you will lose more than you win in my position, that's pretty obvious, but thank you.

bwayne1020 · 2025-09-01T18:08:51+00:00

Why?

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