Marc Long
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Marc Long
@1GoodTradeaDay
Disciple of Discipline





If you were wondering whether the President’s weekend bender helped or hurt the long-term interest of American business, futures markets just opened, and delivered their verdict.






How can you use Claude to gain a trading edge? In the video, Jeff Holden, the Head of Trader Development at SMB Capital, outlines five specific practices where AI (specifically Claude) can transform a trader's workflow to gain edge: 1. Custom Price Alerts Jeff suggests using AI to bypass the limitations of standard platform alerts. Instead of simple price crosses, you can use Claude to code surgical alerts that only fire when a complex set of conditions are met. Example: An alert that triggers only if price breaks the 30-minute opening range high on 1.5x average volume while staying above VWAP. Benefit: Reduces noise and ensures you only focus on the highest-probability setups. 2. Pre-market Game Plan Automation AI can be used to process large amounts of data to prioritize your morning watchlist in minutes rather than an hour. Method: Creating a template where you paste overnight headlines and pre-market data, and Claude outputs a prioritized table of stocks to watch. Benefit: Provides institutional-level preparation and consistency every single day. 3. Trading Performance Analysis Jeff highlights using AI to build personalized Python scripts that analyze your specific broker data to find hidden "leaks" in your performance. Insights: Claude can identify if you are consistently losing money during specific times of the day (e.g., mid-day "lunchtime" lulls) or with specific setup types. Actionable fix: Jeff personally used this to identify that his edge disappeared after 11:30 AM, leading him to implement a "size down" rule for the afternoon. 4. Custom Order Entry and Exit Logic AI allows non-coders to create sophisticated execution rules that aren't standard in most trading platforms. Example: Coding a "two-bar trailing stop" that automatically moves your stop loss up based on price structure but never moves it down. Benefit: Removes human emotion and hesitation from the exit process, making your trading more systematic. 5. The AI Trade Autopsy Jeff describes this as getting "coaching-level feedback for free." After the market closes, you can provide Claude with a screenshot of your chart and the context of your plan. Feedback: Claude acts as an objective coach to tell you if you actually followed your rules or if you were influenced by emotional patterns (like revenge trading after a loss). Super Prompting: Jeff suggests taking autopsies of all your trades at the end of the week and asking AI to identify the single most important trend you need to work on. The "3 Tiers of Traders" Jeff frames these suggestions by categorizing traders into three levels: Tier 1 (90%): Manual everything; limited by platform constraints. Tier 2 (7%): Using AI as a "fortune teller" to predict the market (which he calls "garbage"). Tier 3 (3%): Using AI as a research and infrastructure partner to automate bottlenecks and operate like a professional hedge fund. How to use Claude To Gain a Huge Day Trading Edge youtu.be/Rqmdw4xyIMM?si… via @YouTube





i've been waiting for the 560 flush for awhile... the bigger the drop below 560 tmrw the more exposure i want to have. $QQQ












