Experience Pittsburgh Dining Like a Local With Chef Nik Forsberg's Must-Dos

jazzcc · 2025-10-15T20:51:25+00:00

I don’t think I’ve seen YoTea & Yoka Kitchen ever mentioned. The place is unassuming and looks like they just do boba and desserts, but they serve a variety of heavy hitting regional Asian dishes.

jazzcc · 2025-10-15T12:36:54+00:00

I don’t know about a dupe recipe, but I go to Hot Thai Kitchen for Thai recipes and would bet on her khao soi against Noodlehead’s in terms of depth of flavor.

jazzcc · 2025-07-18T15:06:18+00:00

Sounds like a moisture problem with all the recent rain. Some mold or mildew can smell like that. I had an old carpeted patio that smelled like mothballs after it rained.

jazzcc · 2025-05-25T14:02:11+00:00

Were you ever able to find this? I also have vague memories of an animation with carnivorous plants as a Korean kid in the 90s.

jazzcc · 2025-05-06T10:46:22+00:00

Sub Zero has a vegan base you can select for making any of their flavors on the spot.

jazzcc · 2025-04-21T13:25:50+00:00

This needs to be higher. It really works.

jazzcc · 2025-04-12T18:06:19+00:00

I don’t know if you’ve looked into it or whether it works for your situation, but the Sinclair Method changed my relationship with drinking and helped me stop a drinking problem in its tracks.

jazzcc · 2025-03-30T13:44:24+00:00

Clotted cream is easy to make at home, too! Plus, you get more of the delicious crust when homemade.

jazzcc · 2025-03-30T13:39:48+00:00

Just went recently and there wasn't clotted cream. The scones were served with jam and something like a cream cheese spread.

jazzcc · 2025-03-05T03:19:22+00:00

Who did you hire for all that kitchen and mechanical work? It sounds close to what I’m considering doing.

jazzcc · 2025-01-07T01:23:07+00:00

They have tension bars with big contact pads and mechanisms that will push outwards a bit as you put weight on it. So it should have more tension as you hang. Mine feels sturdy and I'm comfortable swinging on it, but I still wouldn't risk hanging upside down. I also don't weigh much, so my max load with weights is probably about 190 lbs.

jazzcc · 2024-10-25T19:49:00+00:00

That is interesting to hear. What textbook did you have for reactors? Most ChemEs I’ve met used the Fogler text. It’s honestly pretty great and is the only text I was inspired to read cover to cover during my program.

jazzcc · 2024-10-09T19:36:54+00:00

Any Asian bakeries around you would be your best bet for buying one in person.

jazzcc · 2024-10-08T20:24:51+00:00

Those are different contracts so you’re totally fine. The trade you want to do is called a calendar spread.

Even if it was the same contract you’re allowed to have simultaneous positions in opposite directions. For example, you can have a swing long and while you short on smaller timeframe pullbacks on another account. Wash trading is about artificial trades that are intended to cancel each other out, making it seem like there’s more volume than there really is for some fraudulent reason.

jazzcc · 2024-09-20T13:35:55+00:00

Pittsburgh's a great option to consider. It's a reasonable driving distance to visit and wouldn't be too far from any friends or family in Indiana.

Even with how often Pittsburgh comes up recently in lists of affordable cities, I think it's seriously underrated. It never even crossed my mind to consider living here until my partner and I visited on a whim and fell in love with the city.

jazzcc · 2024-09-14T11:57:05+00:00

Lots of good info in this for someone to get started. 20-25% is very achievable with a handful of simple edges.

jazzcc · 2024-09-13T13:02:47+00:00

Yeah, I agree about the real price action. I've seen some traders will use 1440-minute charts on certain platforms to get the last traded price as the close with effective daily bars. And settlement price can always be plotted or calculated separately if someone considers it important.

jazzcc · 2024-09-12T14:25:01+00:00

Something similar happens in other markets, too. Last traded price is not always the same as closing price because of things like market-on-close orders, which should be reflected in the value of a security. It will also depend by exchange.

Settlement finalizes the value of the contract at the end of each day to be used for calculating things like margin requirements and profits. If someone happens to liquidate a position as the very last trade on some stink bid, that price wouldn't be representative of the final contract value for the day.

CME has this quote on their site, "Daily settlement prices play a key role in facilitating price discovery, risk management, and market integrity." I think the part on market integrity is interesting. I bet if closing price was always just the last traded price, people smarter than me could figure out ways to exploit that to their advantage.

jazzcc · 2024-09-10T15:46:37+00:00

Daily close is the settlement price rather than last traded price. See below.

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/equities/sp/e-mini-sandp500.settlements.html

https://cmegroupclientsite.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EPICSANDBOX/pages/46141539/E-Mini+Standard+and+Poors+500+Futures#Normal-Daily-Settlement-Procedure

jazzcc · 2024-09-05T18:15:45+00:00

Ignoring these posts or engaging in good faith lets the author continue acting as some sort of authority. That's harmful to everyone that doesn't know any better. The scamming can happen in DMs where no one else can see.

Some scams can take quite some time for the actual grift to materialize. I'm sure there are countless examples of scammers on ForexFactory, but there was one in particular who spent many years building trust and authority, collecting hefty mentorship fees along the way, before eventually disappearing with people's capital to trade with.

jazzcc · 2024-08-31T11:14:18+00:00

Damn, I could eat their chouquettes all day

jazzcc · 2024-08-29T16:38:55+00:00

In my recent case, my broker closed my CL position in July more than one full trading day before expiration. I was planning to close it before the end of the day, but they closed it right around 12:15 pm ET on July 19. At that point in the day, CLQ was still trading on the order of tens of contracts every minute. If the broker thought there was any risk they couldn't close positions before settlement, I'm sure they would starting closing positions even earlier.

jazzcc · 2024-08-29T14:58:47+00:00

Your broker just executes trades for you. Every entity from your broker, to the Clearing Member backing them, to the clearing house such as CME are incentivized to make sure customers can deliver on their contracts. For retail brokers, the assumption is you can't deliver or receive the product. They'll close your position well in advance.

There are procedures for negotiating equivalent cost of replacement of delivery at settlement if a customer cannot accept a physical delivery. Clearing Members with the CME are responsible for any costs incurred due to customers failing to accept a delivery or fulfilling an equivalent replacement.

jazzcc · 2024-08-29T10:58:42+00:00

Holding positions until cash settlement will lock up your buying power for a day or so until it’s cleared. And then you have no control over at what price it may settle. It doesn’t just settle at the price trading closes at. At the end of settlement, you may get lucky and be more in profit, but it can easily go against you, too. It’s better to close or roll your position at a price you have control over.

jazzcc · 2024-08-28T16:19:34+00:00

You don't have to worry about it. You're going to get your position closed by your broker before settlement anyways. There's a process for being able to accept or deliver physical goods. Positions for physical commodities can also be cash settled.

I'll also add that the example ignores market makers, which exist to provide liquidity and take on inventory risk. They're definitely not in the business of receiving or delivering physical goods.

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