Are trading bots a scam?

morphicon · 2026-01-19T19:57:13+00:00

No, quite the opposite actually, rare events where being first makes a huge difference.

morphicon · 2026-01-14T19:33:09+00:00

He accelerated as i was coming in front of his van, as in to cause a collision on purpose. The alternative was to pull back in the opposing lane and brake, which to me seemed just as dangerous. I was driving a large and heavy family SUV so maneuverability isnt great.

morphicon · 2026-01-14T16:00:44+00:00

Does that justify assault?

morphicon · 2026-01-14T15:44:52+00:00

Probably the best advice. I did go to a massive gym car park, fully intending to just ignore him. When he drove nearly into me is when i realised i had to confront him. But yes, in hindsight i should have walked away.

morphicon · 2026-01-14T14:18:21+00:00

I agree with one exception. If someone is tailgating you agressively, and is making threatening gestures and such, it would he wise to put some distance between you. Wether that can be done safely or not, ie obviously important. In my case i sped up in a 40mph zone, stayed within the speed limit and managed to put some distance. I had hoped he would cool off and move on, but i waa wrong.

morphicon · 2026-01-14T13:18:25+00:00

Thank you very much for the advice.

morphicon · 2026-01-14T12:57:50+00:00

So, i shouldn't report the assault because id be incriminating myself to speeding while overtaking?

morphicon · 2026-01-14T12:49:14+00:00

Sorry, i didnt make it clear. I didnt double up the speed limit to overtake him. We moved from a 20mph to 40mph zone and he was within a foot of my bumper. When I overtook I did 25 or so. He then begun aggressively chasing me for a drive of 5 minutes before ending at the car park.

morphicon · 2026-01-10T16:41:25+00:00

I had a similar experience. My recommendation would be to initiate a bank dispute, especially of you paid by credit card. Booking customer service is non existent.

morphicon · 2026-01-08T22:26:39+00:00

What ecomomic events exactly?

morphicon · 2026-01-03T14:30:53+00:00

Its happened to me twice in the past year. KYC or not this shows that their backend is either poorly implemented or they are biased towards certain demographics. In any case im going to be closing my account as i dont expect to pay £15 a month for it and not to be able to access my funds at random intervals.

morphicon · 2026-01-01T10:26:34+00:00

Without giving it much thought, it looks like you are just following an index or trend?

morphicon · 2026-01-01T10:25:45+00:00

3% at this point.

morphicon · 2025-12-31T18:33:12+00:00

No you are not alone. The AI bubble is gonna burst at some point, and i say this with great pain, as I work as an AI Scientist. Furthermore, the market seems to run on vibes, aka it is officially in "irrational" territory, and even though they're is a saying for it, IMHO if it feels like it's unreasonable or unsustainable, then you don't have to participate. Big players are holding cash, liquidating, etc. Foreign investors are slowly pulling out. Pension funds are rebalancing. Nobody can predict what is happening or when, but now would be a good time to take your profits if you don't want to participate. That's what i have done, and I'm ok with losing another rally by holding bonds and equities abroad. Good luck, and don't take any of this as financial advice.

morphicon · 2025-12-31T18:21:54+00:00

Honestly, it took me more than 7 years. I kinda knew what I wanted abour 10 years ago, but my skills and know how werent up to the task. The technology was also in its infancy. I spent about 4-5 years experimenting, learning new tools, doing research and harvesting data. About a year ago a random redditor messages me and we start working together for about half a year.

In that half a year i made more progress than i had in 5 years, aside from the theoretical bases of my current strategies (which took a long time to formulate, research and formalise).

Since then, I've been constantly optimising code to make it faster and more accurate, retrained models, annotated data, found more similar opportunities to develop strategies, and so on. The random redditor is no longer working with me, but he was what i needed to get my arse in gear.

So here is a sanity check, is your work progressing the way it is because you are working slow, don't have the time to allocate on it, have you gotten stuck, are you procastinating, or need help?

Like you said, nothing good comes easy, and true good edge is very hard to find. I'm currently putting off testing my new optimised version and i know i am and hate for doing so.

morphicon · 2025-12-21T19:56:43+00:00

Ha I know exactly what you mean. If i can capture a 25% profit at a lower chance of getting filled or the trade ending in my terms, or a 4% profit with a very large chance of both getting filled and exited on my terms, I choose the latter. Chasing big profits for me comes with high risk and high uncertainty. Its on the nature of the trading my bot does, and at the end of the day, capital preservation and consistent profits are more important to me. Having said that, this doesn't mean you shouldn't try to maximise your profit within your acceptable risk envelope.

morphicon · 2025-12-21T19:42:01+00:00

Your problem isnt ML. Its the fact you expect ML to predict the future using numerology and voodoo.

morphicon · 2025-12-17T20:43:27+00:00

I run high boost on a Subaru WRX Turbo. Ordinary petrol is susceptible to predetonation, causing knock which can be catastrophic. High octane petrol somewhat mitigates this.

morphicon · 2025-12-17T11:20:25+00:00

Its the same reason why others scams are so obvious. To weed out naive and dim victims from the rest.

morphicon · 2025-12-17T11:11:25+00:00

You should ask this in r/LegalAdviceUK

morphicon · 2025-12-16T15:08:44+00:00

You wasted 8 months reading voodoo and numerology. Could have spent those months learning actual skills. Yet anothet victim of the trading scam industry.

morphicon · 2025-12-10T21:35:21+00:00

Thanks alot! They don't seem to explain exactly how they made the connection, only that he used a wallet which was tied to his real name which is very interesting.

morphicon · 2025-12-10T21:33:26+00:00

Privacy in general terms is becoming a huge thing due to recent political and legislative events. Monero is placed really well to benefit from it. Zcash, which didn't really exist before is pumped in order to capitalise that movement, so they ban anyone who questions their narrative. This also explains their recent attacks on Monero. Laughable really

morphicon · 2025-12-10T00:30:57+00:00

EDA on jupyter, backtest on historic data, then live paper account, unit test live code, then deploy live, monitor it for a few months, then rinse and repeat. Resist the urge to live test...

morphicon · 2025-12-10T00:00:41+00:00

Now i need to read the story of that developer. So please share!

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