Oko

1 year finding your edge 3 years to stop being a cunt

@roxrichie @MarcLobliner Do you think you can just take steroids and you are all of a sudden stronger?

@MarcLobliner Bro I’m very strong and I see smaller guys lifting heavier than me at the gym all the time. I always wonder if they are on steroids. Bet I’m one of the few guys who trains naturally without a single supplement.

Barbell bench press is the universal test of upper body strength. I’ll argue that controlling dumbbells, the equivalent of a full 150lb human in each hand, that’s the true test. I try to do this every few weeks to see where I’m at, and getting 7 reps is okay with me! Katie was being nice trying to prevent me from dying, but I knew I had that rep so I politely declined the spot. Watch til the end for the real feat of strength!

@AD32828004 @theskindoctor13 A good person will do good things, a wicked person will do wicked things, to get a good person to do a wicked thing; that takes religion. - Christopher Hitchens

@theskindoctor13 Religions are one of the biggest reasons for chaos in the world. People killing each other over their own imagination of an entity which they have never seen. Imagine a world without religions where all are treated as equals.

Why are we living? What is the purpose? What comes after this life? Why does anything exist at all? There are no universally accepted scientific answers to these questions. The most common material explanation can feel emotionally unsettling: that life is simply a temporary biological process. One day it ends, consciousness disappears, and you cease to exist. Not only do you die, but your awareness itself vanishes. You won't even know that you no longer exist because the very thing that experiences, remembers, and feels would be gone. For many people, that thought creates an existential vacuum. Belief in God fills that vacuum with meaning. Life becomes a journey rather than a random event. Suffering can have purpose. Death becomes a transition rather than absolute erasure. Instead of "I exist briefly and then disappear forever," it becomes "I am here for a reason and my existence has meaning beyond the physical." Whether God exists or not is a separate debate, nor am I urging anyone to believe in God, but psychologically it is understandable why faith can make people happier. It offers answers where uncertainty can feel frightening, and certainty itself gives the mind rest.

@T3metrics typo

I'm always surprised when I stumble across a domain I already own. actionablesigals.com is a bit long but quite memorable.

if you like automating strats, @dmartin_nq is worth a follow

@dmartin_nq I enjoy adding more strategies to my portfolio and seeing the total max L in a row drop

I am currently teaching a friend how to develop algo systems and I was trying to explain to him that it is completely normal for a profitable and robust strategy to go through 1 to 2 year stagnation periods. For FX, even more than 2 years of stagnation can be normal. The main thing that matters is not necessarily how long the stagnation period is. The goal is to build a portfolio of multiple low correlated strategies. What matters more is the normalized R drawdown (how deep the drawdown is) and how much diversification the strategy adds to the overall portfolio. One strategy may not make money for 2 years, while 10 other strategies are performing well. Then, when some of those strategies eventually enter their own stagnation periods, that previously stagnant strategy may start performing again and make up for them. But he is telling me this makes no sense and that he would never use an algo that goes through more than a 2 month drawdown. 2 months! He is using SQX to datamine strategies and he is showing me all the strategies he found where none of them have more than 2 months of stagnation. I kind of feel bad for him, but I tried my best. He will probably just have to learn the hard way 😅

@Brycetv1 @daviswave Only happens when you wipe a team bro . . . . . . . 😜😜😜😜😜😜

@daviswave Hasn't happened to me on Steam

Please fix this it also happens on steam not just an EA app thing

@the5erstrading Unless you get an industry standard platform to trade on, I can't see it being too popular if I'm honest

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@NosaAdrian No 😂

Should I do one more challenge?

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo well i can see immediately, that entering between 10:20-10:30 has massively improved results on my tests, cheers my man, might actually have something here, mechanically

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo @ProbableChris Fair enough, and yes I agree, a fully mechanical approach is insanely difficult/perhaps impossible, but, mixing discretion and front running by 10 mins is the main reasons people can use it as an edge, but yes, mechanically, it likely doesn't work, especially waiting after 1030

The Simplest NQ Strategy for Beginners Mark the range formed between 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST (Initial Balance / IB) • If the IB High forms first and IB closes between 0 to 0.25 of the range → target the IB Low • If the IB Low forms first and IB closes between 0 to 0.25 of the range → target the IB High What is IB? IB = Initial Balance (the first hour of New York Open) 📊 1 Year NQ Stats via @edgeful • IB High forms first + close between 0–0.25 → 84.48% probability of sweeping the low • IB Low forms first + close between 0–0.25 → 92.13% probability of sweeping the high Simple, Clean, Statistical edge.

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo @ProbableChris yes, i think where we got offtrack is i was talking about not knowing anyone that can trade those IB stats mechanically without adding discretion, which is basically what a lot of people will try to do with these sort of stats that edgeful provides.

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo @ProbableChris Alright man, just sounded like you thought because it happened once, it happens all the time , that's all. Anyways, in this conversation, I gave you 3 to 4 accounts of people using ib profitably, if you want to see what they do, cool, if not, cool, no point in us arguing anymore

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo @ProbableChris haha you know why i'm laughing, it reminds me of this vid. It's always funny when someone says something doesnt happen and it literally happens immediately. Ofc i know it is somewhat rare, but if you wanna think i think otherwise, all good mate youtube.com/watch?v=7Qir4E…

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo @ProbableChris True, one of us is laughing because they think 1 exame represents the average result across a significantly large sample size, the other is laughing because they know how stupid the person they are debating is now 🤣

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo @ProbableChris 🤣🤣🤣 it's good we are both laughing

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo @ProbableChris Yeah same, im laughs g at the fact you are so retarded that you think one example proves your point, the fact that you think one example proves your point tells me you are an idiot, end of story, cheers bro

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo @ProbableChris still laughing, can't make that shit up 🤣

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo Lol so because it happened on May 21st, it therefore happens often? The ib25 thread i sent worked 4/5 days that week, does that mean with the same logic ib always works? No. Don't bother with the script, im going to trust guys like @ProbableChris over guys like you, respectfully

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo haha, mate, i had to look back 2 days after you saying it hardly ever happens. There is literally no more to be said. This convo is over However, i will run all my scripts to pretend the IB range closed at 10:15 at some point, for peace of mind. thanks

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo Wow so one example automatically invalidates an edge, got it, now go ahead and tell me how many times we take the probable side, oh wait, the vast majority of the time lol

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo hahahahaha literally 2 days ago, im done, have a good evening 21st May that is fucking hilarious

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo Because you are simply wrong, that's why, if you think nq genuinely often comes to the improbable side, edges it. And then takes the probable side, you dont know a thjng

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo im debating whether i want to spend 15mins to try find one, but i really would prefer to do something better with my time 🤣

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo Brother if you think that it's probable for price to come close to the improbable side of ib and then take the probable side, I dont know what to say, open nq and find me how many times that happened, it barely does

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo @ProbableChris ah ok, sorry, i didnt realise the stats provided by edgeful in the original post were from 9:30-10:15 hint: they wern't

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo this is why you had bad results, @ProbableChris already showed that if you enter after 1030 there's no edge, hence why he front runs by up to 10 minutes, you are still trading ib if you front run lol, if the low formed at 10:15, enter at 10:25,low breaks at 10:30, it's still ib

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo yes mate, all my tests were after its formed, because otherwise you arent trading the initial balance, you are predicting what the initial balance range will be (which, as you state, can be a separate edge for sure!

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo Also @OkoTrading , how did you test it?, did you wait till 10:30 for ib to form? If so, then yes, your results will be negative/poor, the edge in ib is front running it 10 minutes early if possible which again as you mentioned, takes discretion

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo ofc it is probable, the fact that the stat alone is 80% chance, says that 20% it fails this idea. And of the 80%, yes, ofc sometimes my made up scenario can and will happen

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo Yes price can dump towards ib low first and then take the high, however, is that probable? No. If that scenario happens, you must manage risk and accept the loss, in the vast majority of scenarios, price does not dump to take the improbable side and then reverse to the probable

@AaronBaner @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo yes, if using IB as just another filter, it will work, like this guy. He is using orderflow, ifvg and many other things. In this case he is only using IB really for timing. Which ofc, yes, it could be an added confluence.

@OkoTrading @TraderAryan @VClouette @traderisimo To add to this, check out this thread, this is another example of how someone trades ib profitably, he has already taken many payouts with this x.com/i/status/20586…