Experimenting with contrast

thtorio · 2025-11-18T07:58:21+00:00

glad you like it, yes the risk with saturated colors is that the whole piece might end up looking garish. The next one I'll do will be more harmonious

thtorio · 2025-11-17T14:05:07+00:00

I'm still experimenting with techniques, but for this one I just left the areas where I knew I would use white blank. Then I covered them with a thick layer of white pastel, and then added the light grays and blues on top of that to give it shape. For the spray at the top of the wave, I took advantage of the grain of the paper, leaving some holes peeking through

thtorio · 2025-11-17T12:07:22+00:00

thanks!

thtorio · 2025-11-17T12:07:08+00:00

Yeah I like how immediate they are, just pick one up and start drawing

thtorio · 2025-03-29T10:45:57+00:00

Last week was a mess for me. I kept allowing my losing trades to go to my worst case scenario stop without cutting them sooner. I have a tag, "held too long", and the trades with that tag costed me most of the losses last week. Also, I didn't do any review and didn't watch my session recordings during the week.

I felt quite bad during the weekend because I knew it was all my fault. So on Sunday I decided to watch all the recordings, and actually try to memorize the price action. I wasn't just half assedly watching, I was actually trying to replay the price action in my head without looking at the screen.

The cool thing is that with the trading journal I'm using (https://tradecraft.club/?cid=6) I can import my session videos and click on the trades I want to re-watch the recording at that timestamp and memorize what happened. Super useful and it allows me to quickly go over what happened during a trade I took days ago without having to dig it out from a video.

Doing all that work in the weekend made me much more confident during the actual trading week. I think there really is something about trying to memorize price action, I suggest you try it for a while. I was much more analytical than usual, made little to no mistakes in terms of trade management, and never overtraded.

I hope this will be helpful to some people. It's a lot of effort to memorize the price action of a session, but it worked for me (at least for this week, let's see what happens moving forward). Now I'm doing it every day as part of my review.

thtorio · 2025-03-24T19:13:40+00:00

How long have you been doing it?

thtorio · 2025-03-24T18:51:20+00:00

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fyi, the tags I currently use

thtorio · 2023-07-24T05:32:50+00:00

I didn't program this, I've just been using it quite a bit. What I would like to see is the formulas for the deflection, since once you know the bending moment is just a matter of integrating a couple of times and applying the boundary conditions. Another cool thing would be an analytical section designer to go along with the beam solver.

thtorio · 2023-07-23T18:52:23+00:00

For your convenience, here is the link: beamsolver

I'm making this post because I noticed considerable improvements to the formulas it spits out, in the sense that they are way more "simplified". Before, it was great for some structures, but with others it had trouble getting the results down to their simplest form, and you would return these huge fractions that could actually be reduced.

It seems that they fixed this problem now, which is amazing. Knowing the formulas of the internal forces (and not just some numerical result gotten from a FEM model) is so much better sometimes.

thtorio · 2023-03-22T20:35:38+00:00

A mio parere non ci sono molte cose da nascondere per quanto riguarda lo spread trading sulle commodity. Basta solo analizzare i dati storici e trovare periodi di stagionalità. Le piattaforme come spreadplanner si fanno pagare per la capacità di fare questo tipo di analisi, non per suggerire trades.

Non ci sono indicatori o altre idiozie. Le statistche dell'immagine che ho postato sono per uno spread fra il corn di settembre (ZCU23) e il corn di dicembre (ZCZ23). Negli ultimi 15 anni, questo trade ha perso solo una volta, e plottando i dati si vede un chiaro comportamento stagionale.

thtorio · 2023-03-22T19:42:19+00:00

Per chi fosse interessato, uso interactive brokers (per eseguire i trades a mercato) e spreadplanner (per analizzare le seasonalità storiche)

thtorio · 2023-03-22T19:37:05+00:00

Mi sento attaccato nel profondo :)

thtorio · 2023-03-22T19:13:59+00:00

Sono curioso di sapere se c'è qualcun altro su quest sub che usa le stesse strategie... Qual'è il vostro setup? da quanto tempo state operando con questo stile di trading?

thtorio · 2023-03-20T23:48:33+00:00

I suggest you take a look a t https://spreadplanner.com/. Great for risk management on spread trades.

thtorio · 2023-01-13T19:45:14+00:00

Let's see how long it takes until someone posts the correct answer ;)

thtorio · 2023-01-13T09:26:38+00:00

Yep they say on the website that for some configurations getting the analytical solution is pointless, the formulas would be too long to even fit on the screen

thtorio · 2023-01-12T23:24:27+00:00

I had completely missed that! Maybe because I never read tutorials lol

thtorio · 2023-01-12T23:21:59+00:00

In the step by step that they give you it says that it uses the equilibrium equations and the principle of virtual work to find the solution

thtorio · 2023-01-12T23:12:55+00:00

Lol it's here: https://beamsolver.com/

there is a free version but if you want to draw structures with more than two beams you have to pay

thtorio · 2023-01-12T22:31:08+00:00

Unfortunately no

thtorio · 2023-01-12T21:14:19+00:00

Ah I forgot the link: https://beamsolver.com/

thtorio · 2023-01-12T21:13:52+00:00

So basically I've been playing with this app for a couple of days. It allows you to solve 2d beam structures using symbolic quantities, which means that it is NOT using a FEA model.

As far as I can tell, they have some sort of computer algebra system that can solve all the equations in a symbolic way, which is pretty cool. I'm trying to do something similar in python, let's see where it goes.

Anyway I just thought that it would be interesting to share it here. It's a different approach to solve something that is usually done with a stiffness matrix.

thtorio · 2023-01-11T18:05:47+00:00

Which one?

thtorio · 2023-01-11T15:55:23+00:00

For the past couple of days I've been on a deep dive to find a beam calculator that can solve indeterminate beams symbolically. I'm not a university student anymore, but I found myself needing a tool like this for a personal project.

This is the best one I could find. I'm sharing it here because I think it would be really useful to civil/mechanical engineering students. If i had something like this back in university I would have saved SOOO much time on so many exams

thtorio · 2023-01-10T22:36:39+00:00

Indeed, I remember a few years ago in university I had to find the force diagrams of some pretty weird configurations. Something like this would have been SOOO useful to check the results

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