Yi Long Ma

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.” - Warren Buffett

At the end of the day, nobody is coming to live your life for you. At the end of the day, the noise fades and you’re left with your choices. At the end of the day, age doesn’t punish you, neglect does. At the end of the day, what you didn’t fix quietly becomes what controls you loudly. And at the end of the day, peace is earned by honesty with yourself.

If you are 30, stop living like time is still on your side. At this point, life has given you enough data to know what works and what does not. You have seen patterns repeat. You have felt the consequences of bad decisions and also the quiet rewards of good ones. Pretending you are still figuring it out is often just another way of avoiding responsibility. At 30, stop outsourcing your thinking. Social media should no longer be your compass. Trends, motivational quotes, and borrowed opinions cannot replace personal judgment. If you do not deliberately choose what to believe, what to pursue, and what to ignore, you will end up building a life based on other people’s priorities. That is a dangerous place to be at this age. Stop blaming the system for everything. Yes, the system is flawed. The economy is unstable, governance is disappointing. But blaming external forces for every outcome keeps you mentally powerless. Maturity is understanding that while you may not control the system, you still control your skills, your habits, your relationships, and how you respond to reality. Those things compound, whether you pay attention or not. If you are 30, stop confusing movement with progress. Being busy is not the same as building something meaningful. Many people are exhausted not because they are working hard, but because they are working without direction. At this age, your energy should be invested in fewer things with clearer outcomes, not scattered across endless experiments with no structure. By now, you should be asking deeper questions. What skill am I deliberately developing that can pay me for years. What income stream can survive uncertainty. What habits are quietly sabotaging my health, focus, or finances. What friendships are adding value and which ones are draining me. These questions are uncomfortable, but avoiding them is costlier. At 30, stop living for applause. Validation fades quickly, but consequences last. The cars, trips, and lifestyle you cannot maintain will eventually expose you. Quiet progress, consistency, and self-respect matter far more now than looking impressive. This is the age where foundations are laid, even if no one is clapping yet. The system may be harsh, but excuses age badly. Time becomes less forgiving. And the decisions you make now will introduce you to the life you will live in the next decade.

Men collapse when they confuse freedom with no discipline. Real freedom is self-imposed slavery to a standard, because without it you drift into lust, sloth, and cheap comfort that eats your future.

@ltrd_ @semajeth simple heuristic: if you yeeted market orders at random intervals over the past few hours, hyperliquid would have been better than binance only at very large sizes

Alex talks about very important things in learning and performing: how to get in the zone, how mastery can be achieved, how you should do things thousands of times in order to be prepared. Really thoughtful podcast. youtube.com/watch?v=FWzk8-…

The U.S. Dollar Index $DXY 4-year rate of change has fallen to 0%. A rare market reset in long-term dollar momentum which has happened only five times since 1971. This setup is constructive for U.S. stocks. The mechanism is simple: S&P 500 is cap-weighted, and over half of the revenues of its top 10 companies come from outside the U.S. A softer dollar boosts foreign earnings when translated back to USD. In every prior case, the S&P 500 was higher 12 months later, despite the small sample size. Importantly, downside risk was limited. Max drawdowns stayed below 15% across prior instances.

@systematicls gimme! gimme...

You've heard of crypto trend signals. Have you wondered how they were created? Today, I actually show you guys how to create a performant, scalable trend signal. Hint: It's going to be a smart ensemble of weak trend estimators. Randomly giving out free articles for retweets!

People crave fairness when they are losing and justify dominance when they are winning; this contradiction exposes the truth that morality bends around self-interest far more reliably than self-interest bends around morality. Watch how a person behaves when advantage is on their side, that’s their real philosophy.

You have one life. This is not a rehearsal, there is no save state. The question isn't whether you should exhaust yourself - time will do that regardless. The question is whether you exhaust yourself on YOUR terms or someone else's. 1. If you're going to be tired anyway, be tired from YOUR pursuits, not from executing someone else's vision while yours collects dust. 2. The most haunting regret isn't failure - it's the gnawing "what if" of never trying. Failures fade into lessons. Untried dreams fester into resentment. 3. "Exhausting your life" doesn't mean burning out. It means allocating your finite capacity towards things you actually give a shit about. Some days that's 16 hours of work. Some days that's rest so you can fight another day. 4. Your energy is going to be spent somewhere. Spend it with intention or watch it drain into the void of default paths. The goal isn't to reach the end empty from depletion. It's to reach the end empty because you left nothing unspent on the sidelines.

after a trade is closed completely wipe it from your mind aster? never heard of it

A lot of the pressure around business disappears when you remember the game has been going on since before you were alive and will continue until after you die. The players change, the game stays the same. No one wins. We only play.

Sage advice from Brad Jacobs:

People are fair weather fans. Don’t expect them to root for you when you’re starting out. They’ll root for you once it’s obvious you’re gonna win. But that’s not when you need it. So get used to rooting for yourself because when you need it most, it’s just gonna be you.

Some thoughts on what it means to compete against a being that is bigger, has more resources and can infinitely attrite you. -- Be Aggressive Incumbents have more experience, more resources, and perhaps most advantageously, more time. In games of attrition, all else being equal, the party with more resources will inevitably prevail. It means the onus is on the disruptors to drive action, so that it becomes a game of innovation, rather than a game of attrition - it is on the disruptor to be aggressive, or the incumbent wins by default. Dare Greatly Disruptors will need to be bold and dare greatly, to recognize their competition's overwhelming might, and still have the optimism and belief that they can earn a seat at the table and compete. Disruptors have little space for pessimism because it will kill their will to fight, and without the will to fight, all is lost. Focus Singularly, Iterate Quickly All the features that allow incumbents to function, processes, redundancies and failsafes - are bugs to the disruptors. Disruptors need to strip themselves to the essentials and focus all of their efforts onto a singular focus, and iterate quickly if that focus proves to be wrong. Break The Stick Don't try to beat incumbents at their own game. As Peter Thiel succinctly puts it, "competition is for losers". It's well worth it to figure out how to frame the problem into a game they don't quite understand, or to look for territory that is uncharted - it will prove to be grounds that are easier to defend.

Exceptionally real take Liquidity is a magicians trick in crypto Take it while it’s there Cos it damn sure ain’t when you want it

@sigmab_ @MrD_unreal "This is my quant" 😅

Lợi dụng Bug to tổ bố vì là giao thức đánh đòn bẩy trên dex nên việc rút token thế chấp khỏi margin ( Rút ký quỹ khả dụng) chỉ làm tăng giá thanh lý chứ không làm mất lệnh Nhưng việc rút quá nhiều 1 lúc sẽ làm Funding rate bình thường trở lại nên phải có 1 con Bot xây riêng trên Arbitrum nhằm rút 1 lượng tiền vừa đủ fill vào Liquid short nhằm cân bằng liên tục tính bằng tik để không giảm Funding rate khiến giá không thể bị giật đột ngột Đồng thời phải có thêm 1 con Bot khác Aritrage liên sàn rồi nhận tiền từ Arbitrum đập lên Cex sau đó mở lệnh cũng phải Fill vào Gap liquid long đúng số lượng làm nó nhanh nhất có thể để tránh đưa Funding rate về mức cân bằng quá nhanh Sau khi Funding rate về mức cân bằng cũng là lúc mà lượng tiền rút bắt đầu ào ạt và phải ngay lập tức thanh lý lệnh $ETH ở giá cao nhất có thể nhằm dẫn đến trượt giá tối đa trên thị trường Perpetual mà lệnh Short bên kia chờ sẵn Vừa không bị lỗ( Có lãi 1.86M$ khi thực hiện rút thành công ký quỹ khả dụng ) mà còn trực tiếp đẩy mức trượt giá $ETH tối đa nhất có thể để bú tiếp lãi trên 1 sàn Cex nào đó Cao tay cao tay Cái này các anh em Quant chỉ biết ước, công cụ in tiền vô hạn là đây chứ đâu