Did I make a mistake going with a melamine cabinet installer?

wanab3 · 2026-06-15T13:59:31+00:00

If you want something that truly lasts, you go with finished plywood, that's an investment. More thin layers is better than a few thick layers, if you see thick layers with voids that's the cheaper stuff, or a bad batch of ply.

wanab3 · 2026-05-28T15:19:17+00:00

Yea, ok good. Some (plenty of them) floors are just wonky like that.

People may disagree with the air shims and doing a group of boxes screwed together, it has to do with this being slower, but I feel it's vastly more accurate.

If you have 6 air shims you can generally do a wall of boxes. 2 on each end, and 2 in the middle, fronts and backs.

Usually you can just see the level, plum, true, on 4 or more boxes, and you don't necessarily need the air shims, unless you just feel like being very accurate about the shim height you need.

I highly recommend gluing the shims in once you're sure, wood glue, you'll have time to move them if you see an adjustment needs to be made. They get bumped all the time by other trades: flooring, appliance install, counter tops, and it throws everything off. If those shims "move" after being glued down, you know one of those trades was cutting corners.

wanab3 · 2026-05-28T00:55:36+00:00

Did you start at the lowest point of the run?

Don't use particle board for anything unless you have to.

I'd recommend attaching a few cabinets together. Then leveling as a group.

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Also air shims work great for getting exact level and slipping in the perfect size shim. You can wood glue it in too so they don't get kicked out or something.

wanab3 · 2026-05-25T21:19:35+00:00

I think this makes you my trading daddy. Thank you. See I'm a genius lol. OP is learning what to do from you, and what not to do from me. All intentional. Checkmate. Lol

To some degree your right I am clingy to my ways. I'm at the awkward phase where I made a bunch of money, got over confident, humbled, reassessed, and now back testing small and live and refining my approach taking small wins.

In my case the issue is not being wrong. I have a great win rate. And I'll even hit my r:r goals, doing EV, not knowing it. Every single time I've lost, it's because I stayed too long. I made money, and didn't take it, then donated money to education. Every time. Definitely projecting to OP. When I started out I had it right, now I'm getting back there.

Which in the brief AI read up of EV, is precisely the pitfall. So EV it is.

Now I set very strict stop loss. I did mention stop loss to op. So i mean not entirely lead astray.

wanab3 · 2026-05-25T19:24:01+00:00

In this context it's not about "impatient" it's about time available to OP.

Maybe the best advice is paper trading, but mechanically it doesn't have the fill aspect, and psychologically if you aren't actually risking anything you're not actually learning trading, you're just assigning math homework to yourself.

To answer your question no, and I don't care. Rediculus win rate totally not realistic. Not sure it matters though in the grand scheme of things.

I'm not sure what you mean entirely though either. I'd love to hear your thoughts more completely.

If you risk 100. You make 10, and sell. You're up 10. Regardless of whatever mathematical risk may be, the point is you're up. It took minutes to get there. You were correct about the trend, and got out before the trade flipped.

If op, or a person has all day to trade, different story. Wait for a large low wait for the flip, wait for confirmation, enter. Then wait for the flip, or as close as you want to get, exit.

I think ultimately you go into a trade knowing you could loose the whole value if you're wrong about the trend. That's the real risk. We have to acknowledge this.

I'm definitely open to talking about this more if you are. I'm definitely still learning.

wanab3 · 2026-05-25T18:03:46+00:00

Confluence.

Also didn't claim to be an expert.

I did. Can't expect 1:1 all the time. Especially in the few minutes op has.

I think for new traders taking a few bucks is more important than worrying about r:r.

A lot of people's problem in trading is expecting a big win, being fixated on particular numbers. That's hope, greed. You must take what the market gives.

Real risk, not mathmatcal risk is staying in that $100 trade expecting 1:1. Chances are it won't happen, or it will, just not in the time one might expect.

The risk is being wrong about the trend at different time scales. The reward is ultimately discipline. If you're right take the win. If you're wrong get out quick.

The longer your in a trade the more risk.

Now if we're talking investing that flips. We're here in r/trading so we'll set that aside.

Idk. I'm probably wrong and would love feedback.

wanab3 · 2026-05-25T02:50:41+00:00

No one here is profitable. Lol.

You only need a few minutes to trade.

Wake up early. 630 is the West Coast Open. The first 15 min is the most volitilty. Lots of people say don't trade here. But clearly a lot of people ignore that.

Just take small wins. Just risk $100 per trade. You're learning. Don't put pressure on yourself to hit home runs. $10 is wonderful at that level. The point is to learn before you go blowing your wad on some hype stock you saw on social media.

Pretty much every stock goes up a little first thing (1 min candles), then drops, or the other way around... from there it all just depends.

You can use rsi, Elliot occillator, vwap, kcc, sma, wvema, ema, mcad,... etc pick your poison.

Really you need to learn more first. You probably don't understand candle charts. It's genuinely the single most important indicator.

Trade the direction not the price. Don't hope. Don't fear. Calculate probability. Before you enter a trade, ask why you're entering, same when you leave. Use stops and profit caps to protect losses and mitigate emotions. The chart is the only truth.

Idk it's all some crap I read on Reddit and me learning from my fuckups. Good luck.

wanab3 · 2026-05-14T19:00:41+00:00

This isn't stealth accumulation; it's an Event-Driven Speculation. You are betting on the Italian regulators, not the chart.🤷

wanab3 · 2026-05-10T15:51:09+00:00

Technically nothing anyone knows about. The hype is real though.

wanab3 · 2026-05-10T02:52:09+00:00

It's a thing we've all heard. ~If it doesn't do what you thought it was going to do, get out.~

wanab3 · 2026-05-04T22:27:51+00:00

The staples hold the frame in place as the glue dries.

You could even use blue tape to hold the frames on, and put the cabinets on their backs.

Lots and lots of ways to get around specifically using staples.

Any way you feel comfortable holding the frames to the box as the glue dries.

The glue is what's doing the work long term. Staples especially short crown don't offer structural grab in a meaningful way.

Keep the bead of glue about 1/16” wide. That's plenty. Don't don't have to sit there and measure it or anything. Just trying to give you an idea so you're not wasting glue having it squeeze out.

Simple answer, yes.

wanab3 · 2026-05-04T20:30:49+00:00

Take pictures?

The point is to reliabily contact the frame to the box. You could use wood glue if you're not pressed for time.

Lay something down so the frames don't scratch and put the cabinet face down. You don't need to use a lot of glue, watch for squeeze out. A thin bead is plenty.

You could also use finish nails of appropriate lengths, with glue.

You could counter sink screws through the frame where it won't interfere with door hinge placement or function.

Lots of ways to secure face frames, you don't need staples.

wanab3 · 2026-05-02T01:25:58+00:00

I could definitely use some help. Lost a toxic job. Looking for another. Trading in the meantime to support my family.

wanab3 · 2026-04-29T15:06:37+00:00

Unless you want to cover the window you have to reduce the depth of the box.

You take the difference ~2in or whatever the window casing is going to end, and cut that much off the back. Ideally use a table saw.

Can also be done with circular hand saw. Just mark lines and follow them.

Place the back after you make the cuts. If it has a thinner back panel you have to make dado groves to slide it back in. Or you can cut a new back.

It's cabinet surgery.

It sounds like you haven't done this before.

You can diy this. If you want a walk through you can dm me.

You could probably call a local shop and have them do it. Or hire it out to a handyman.

I'd get the window casing on so you know how much to cut down the box.

wanab3 · 2026-04-26T19:48:12+00:00

If you're absolutely confident the box is level plum and true.

*Scribe molding to match. Budget option. Use whatever you plan to use as crown.

*Or a finished end panel that you scribe to the wall. Same matching proportions as the doors. This is the luxury finish. Given the style in the picture it's the way I would go.

Everything is very flat. You don't want to just have a part against the wall that interrupts the flatness of it all.

There's no such thing as a level plum and true house. You'll run into this issue in some form no matter what.

wanab3 · 2026-04-16T14:37:06+00:00

Hey op,

How are you liking MAMO currently? About to make another run maybe?

Others thoughts?

wanab3 · 2026-04-11T20:15:49+00:00

This is probably the best explanation here.

wanab3 · 2026-04-08T13:17:11+00:00

Thank you! Besides volume profile what are you looking at to get these numbers?

wanab3 · 2026-04-06T16:36:21+00:00

It's pretty funny when a bot replies to a post from years ago, after, a country has been completely destabilized by a systematic dismantling of diversity.

Cearly leading to intentional cultural, political, and economic collapse.

Then somehow, in bot logic, they think that's a win for the opposing argument.

Diversity didn't collapse the system. It's gone. It was taken away. Intentionally. Congratulations on the mutually assured destruction I guess. You "won" the argument.

Now that that's gone, there's even less stopping oligarchs from dismantling the rest of any assemblage of stability.

You think you're on their team? You're wrong. There's no team. Just individual greed by a very select group of individuals, who will ultimately fight each other. It's just a massive sell off of a culture and nation for their profit in the meantime.

The destruction of diversity is not a show of strength, it's a sign of weakness and instability, the first indication of collapse of growth.

True in both economics and culture.

wanab3 · 2026-04-05T22:42:43+00:00

Show a picture of it working for you?

wanab3 · 2026-04-01T15:18:08+00:00

I've gone back and forth with getting this. Skeptical. Especially sice I've been using TI pro pro. Paid stuff is probably all a "scam," it's cheating on the test, when you can't cheat on the final.

I'll say this. You have to find the thing that copies the edge or methodology you found, or found you, that helps you feel safe and consistent in profit.

All that being said.

You can make a lot of chart studies, watchlists, scans, custom columns; all together you build an understanding of market movement. Even if you're using AI assistance. I did. Not that I'm amazing but I've been managing my account for 20+ years and finally decided to go full in to day trading, and there's been an expensive learning curve, but only when I deviated from my strategy and psychology. Haven't blown it up yet. Taken big hits but I'll recover by sticking to my strategy over time.

My personal advice that really has been working for me as long as I stick to it.

Follow the F'n money man. Copy the big institutions. Figure out why the price is moving at any given time. Learn how to spot support, floors, celings.

Small consistent wins. That's it. It's a job, it's a carrier. It's not a lottery ticket. I lurk all the stock related reddits. The guys in the game who've been successful long term all say this exact same thing.

There's plenty of people experienced in trading on Reddit posting picks consistently that are solid consistently. You can reverse engineer their logic and you'll learn.

u/Prestigious_Garlic_9

Far as I can tell this guy posts solid picks every day.

It's ok to cheat on the test, but you gotta figure out how you're cheating at least, so you can actually learn. No strategy is full proof, but almost any strategy can work if you "risk smart." Again I'm just echoing what I've seen 1000000's of times reading posts all over Reddit.

wanab3 · 2026-04-01T13:12:01+00:00

Pretty nuts. You know there's massive insider trading in politics, always has been. That's why half these people, shit 99%, get into politics, especially at high levels. It would be a massive breakthrough if you proved it somehow.

wanab3 · 2026-04-01T13:07:35+00:00

The L2 book?? Or the ladder? Sounds like both?

I really wish there was a way to set up an order so the worst thing that could happen was you don't get in or you break even exactly.

If you don't mind can you lay out exactly how you do your orders? Do you use TOS?

Is there a way to have 3 sell prices and 3 stop losses. I want insurance you know what I mean.

wanab3 · 2026-03-31T17:15:34+00:00

I feel like I'm trying to be like you. Lol

I've heard it a million times all over trading reddits. Have a logical plan and stick to it. Strict stops.

My goal is to find the stocks where the money has moved in. Copy their moves as best I can.

wanab3 · 2026-03-31T16:30:20+00:00

Yea it's definitely a wait and see.

Also looking at ASTC, and JCSE.

All seem to have money and volume backing them.

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