Cyrus The Trader

I’m a trader because I’m first a student of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and the practical ethics I explored in an old thesis from back in my academic days. At its heart, the Cyropaedia is a simple book about living an autonomous life — cultivating yourself with discipline while never letting desire turn into tyranny over the rest of your existence. That same principle shapes how I trade. My trading is its own contained, independent domain. It follows a clear personal procedure: I only act when my indicators reach confluence with macro trends, fundamentals, and deliberate allocations across strategies. Options are used mostly for income and better entries, though I occasionally go all-in with LEAPS when the stars truly align. These are purely technical and financial rules. The deeper practice of care of self doesn’t dictate any specific trade — it simply sustains the trader. It keeps the whole thing disciplined, high-conviction, and most importantly, non-dominant over the rest of my life. Trading supports autonomy; it doesn’t replace it. I share my actual rules and process openly, in the same spirit Cyrus used with his friends — not as teaching or selling, but as one person offering his own practice to anyone who might find it useful while building their own. This account demonstrates a simple, well-governed practice that is easily replicable for anyone who wants high-conviction trading without letting it take over their life. “Much health, a little wealth, and a life by stealth.” — Swift (the core of my personal philosophy) — Cyrus The Trader @CyrusSwiftStrat

@SoulCultivated The mean is not mediocre but the continuum is arbitrary

Aristotle's Doctrine of the Mean Every virtue sits between two vices. Courage between cowardice and recklessness. Generosity between stinginess and waste. The mean is not the mediocre. It is the right amount, at the right time, toward the right person, for the right reason. "But to experience all this at the right time, toward the right objects, toward the right people, for the right reason, and in the right manner –– that is the mean and the best course, the course that is a mark of virtue." – Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 1106b 20

@JustHere4LivePD @beffjezos @elonmusk Cape Town

@CyrusSwiftStrat @beffjezos @elonmusk Malibu?

the masculine urge to grab your laptop, a starlink receiver, clear your schedule and go to a cabin in the woods for a few weeks to strictly vibe code and lift weights without human contact

@SoulCultivated The non theoretical blend is Xenophon

The Great Conversation: Plato and Aristotle Plato and Aristotle were teacher and student. They did not see reality in the same way. Plato looked beyond the visible world and asked what is permanent, true, and intelligible. Aristotle began with the world before us and asked what a thing is, how it works, and what kind of life is good for a human being. One gave us the Form of the Good. The other gave us practical wisdom, phronesis. Read Plato first. Then read Aristotle. tolle lege

Yeah, good. But you make a lot of rebuttals against points I am not making in the assumption I have a bombastic post modernist reading. On point 4. I don’t claim that. I claim you cannot dismiss the textuality of a person. A person has those same characteristics (we can call it thematic coherence) that the book has. Reading can be better or worse of course. But the point is the authoritative reading is temporary. And to be rejected. They always are in time. And then they come back again or not. On O vs A that’s the accepted interpretation. I also agree with that. But how another person chooses who is more virtuous or in other words how they find their hero tells us something about them, the times and the text. You have an axe to grind. That’s up to you. I don’t have a dog in a fight.

Reader variances isnt the same as making every reading equally valid & insightful. Texts shape meaning; they aren't blank slates for individual projecting. The Iliad and Odyssey, despite oral origins, exhibit deliberate artistic unity, thematic coherence, & persistent heroic ethic - they arent simply amalgamated. Claiming you reject all interpretive ideologies while insisting meanings are purely individual is itself ideology: radical subjectivism. It undercuts "more or less thought" for the reader - if some readings require deeper engagement and are better, then how are all readings equal? Side by side Achilles & Odysseus reveals different virtues (force vs. cunning, wrath vs. endurance) precisely because the texts present them that way, rather than because readers invent them freely. What we find isnt just telling us something about us. Classic literature also challenges, distances, and reveals values forgotten by us. Dismissing it as "mostly epic literature" is evasive. It's aristocratic depicting a warrior elite. Epics arent mirrors for (post)modern self-interpreted subjectivity even as they deal with universal themes.

Classical literature is not just harder content. It is liberation. It rips students out of the tiny prison of their own age, their own trends, their own slogans, their own shallow assumptions about what matters. It reminds them the world did not begin with them, and that their feelings are not the measure of truth. Shakespeare doesn’t teach “skills.” He reveals ambition, lust, betrayal, guilt, and the cost of sin. Homer teaches courage and honor. Augustine exposes the restless heart. Dante shows that loves can be ordered rightly or twisted into ruin. These books give students a map of the soul. Our greatest enemy is a culture training kids to be bored by silence and incapable of deep thought.

@DamianChavezArt @JeremyTate41 Deal with the text the ideas and the content not the ideological labels. That’s your bias. Fuck ideology

@CyrusSwiftStrat @JeremyTate41 Postmodernism is a mind virus. Its pure bullshit.

I disagree with your last point. How a text is recieved by an individual yields different meanings, and this text, this one especially, an oral tradition amalgamation. But also I don't stand on principle for any interpretive ideology. Your initial point is fine, but probably you categorise everything into too little a basket. The most obvious thing to me is how a man will compare Achilles and Odysseus and find their virtues in different forms. With more or less thought on the part of the reader. Its mostly a work of epic literature though, what we find in it confirms something about us. Of course its aristocratic.

It isnt s critique about that culture but about the mutually reciprocal duties inherent with each status level/role within the social hierarchy. Its a critique about the virtues neccessary for each. Homeric epic is fundamentally aristocratic. Remember that Odysseus returning even valorises his loyal servants at the end. Any postmodernist reading is bullshit & subversively anti-western.

@milesdeutscher @Web4Agent @aiedge_ You need this if you haven’t studied in the humanities.

Around this time last year, for the first time in years, I was feeling lost. I was bleeding money in crypto, my business was stalling, and content was burning me out. As a last-ditch effort, I tried a Claude prompt I found online (with zero expectations). The result absolutely shocked me and changed my entire life/business trajectory. Since using it, I've given it to friends and family, and ALL of them who used it said it was eye-opening. One of the most valuable prompts I could ever give you. Copy & paste into your LLM.

@SoulCultivated Political philosophy = philosophy that is written to achieve a political aim. That’s what I’m getting at.

@CyrusSwiftStrat The Republic is political philosophy, yes, but also an argument about the soul and the good life.

Great Books Plato, Republic The Republic is one of the great works of Western philosophy. It asks one of the oldest and most important questions: how should we live if we want to live well and be happy? At its heart is the question of whether the just life is truly better than the unjust one, and what kind of soul and city justice requires. tolle lege

@Athens_Stranger Wow, next you will suggest studying the text

Books worth reading are books worth taking notes about what you find while reading — even and especially if what you find are questions Nobody can do that for you because it’s your thought, your own original insights. Relying on others for notes etc is outsourcing thinking

@SleeperBrowns @jamseyfv @SleeperNFL This is perfect. 👌

Today's fan mock draft comes to us from @jamseyfv: Cleveland lands Jordyn Tyson and Spencer Fano after trading down and picking up picks 12, 20, 107 from the Cowboys for the 6th and 70th pick Keep those mock drafts coming, #DawgPound!

@DamianChavezArt @JeremyTate41 Try and answer the question. Not just defensive rhetoric, as per usual.

@CyrusSwiftStrat @JeremyTate41 Tell me you havent read Homer without telling me. Perhaps its true that certain things cant be translated outside their cultural milieu.

@DamianChavezArt @JeremyTate41 I was more interested in the point about honour culture in the service of kings. Where are you on that? Courage of course is only admirable when done in good faith and good service.

@CyrusSwiftStrat @JeremyTate41 Individual courage isnt anywhere subvertly criticised by Homer, what did you smoke? Rashness=/=courage. Odysseus shows persistence, courage, & cleverness when outnumbered & without resources.

@DrJStrategy Honestly, good, but this should be obvious by now. I'm surprised at the talking heads on the popular right freaking out like lightweights.

Food for thought. In The Prince, Machiavelli teaches that a ruler’s first duty is to secure the state, even if that means speaking and acting in ways that shock polite society. He warns that “men in general judge more from appearances than from reality,” and that a successful prince must be judged on the effects of his words, not on whether they conform to genteel norms. Trump’s recent language toward the Iranian regime is not a lapse of self‑control; it is a calculated act of deterrence aimed squarely at the leaders of a state‑sponsored terrorist apparatus. He is negotiating through intimidation, signalling resolve, ruthlessness, and a willingness either to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages” or to ensure that “a whole civilization will die tonight” in terms that pierce the bubble of diplomatic euphemism and force the IRGC command to reassess its risk tolerance. In that sense, Trump is acting far closer to Machiavelli’s prince than to a modern liberal statesman: he is willing to appear vulgar, even “unhinged,” if doing so strengthens the fear of his threats in the minds of his adversaries. What is striking is not that a leader dealing with such a regime would use this language, but that so many in the West seem genuinely unable, or unwilling, to recognize the strategy. They clutch their pearls about tone while ignoring the basic logic of coercive diplomacy: when you want to stop a hostile regime and its terrorist proxies from further escalation, you must shape their expectations, not placate your own commentariat. Machiavelli’s blunt counsel is that a prince must sometimes speak as both “man and beast,” combining law with the language of force to protect his people. One is left wondering whether our political and media classes have forgotten the oldest lessons of statecraft. Has no one read The Prince?

@KOBCOB2 @JamesLucasIT Real Madrid had Ronaldo and Barcelona had Messi

@CyrusSwiftStrat @JamesLucasIT Only the left has government, msm and the institutions though

What prevents humans from living together in peace?

@AncPhi Theory is overrated my man. At some point you realise the ideas are only forms

Unlike philosophy, which demands everything of the reader, the boundaries of intellectual demand on a reader of literature are not unlimited. There is a point where too much thinking detracts from the story.

@abrilzucchi Do me

my rule from now on is that the next person i date needs to be absolutely in love with my culture argentina maxxing or nothing

@Buddah33179160 @JamesLucasIT Didn’t include farting

@JamesLucasIT The 7 Deadly Sins pretty much covers it.

@KOBCOB2 @JamesLucasIT And the right and the secular. Let’s include everyone please

@JamesLucasIT Religion and the left