
PrimeRadiant
887 posts

PrimeRadiant
@TrustInFutures
building new alpha engines, for sport








amazing things happening on taobao






Why do people sitting in their mom's basement think they can trade oil? I do this autistic research on smallcaps in overlooked sectors with zero institutional coverage. I fly around the world trying to connect and booze with management to extract that marginal value and it sure as hell ain't easy, but at least there aren't many people doing it. Where is your edge in trading oil futures? Do you honestly believe you can compete with hedge funds that know what cargo is going on a VLCC before the fucking charter is signed? These guys have satellites literally watching shadows to measure oil tank fill levels all over the world in real time, analysts embedded living inside Chinese teapot refineries seeing the inventories before anyone else, weather analysts locked in on every Gulf hurricane that can swing contracts, Houthi contacts for instant Red Sea intel when shipping gets fucked, teams tracking South African iron ore trains to deduce the thermal Brent arb; all early physical signals that give them a permanent advantage in this insane market. You’re not timing the market from a few pretty graphs. You’re delusional if you think you can outtrade one of the most ruthless markets on earth against teams with vastly superior data, better real time intelligence, deeper contacts, and far sharper analysts. But sure, go ahead and sit in your moms basement and try to outtrade a commodity that moves $130–140 billion per day in notional on just WTI and Brent. You're swimming in the very deep end of the pool and most people drown there.



🚨Copper fell almost 4% last week Every systematic desk read it the same way: the trade is over, the deficit was overblown, the majors were right to sit on their hands. I think that read ages badly over the next 12 months. Here is why I am making the opposite argument on a red tape. In the space of one month, 3 things happened that the daily price action is completely ignoring: 🔹Goldman Sachs cut global copper mine supply by 350,000 tonnes in a single report and pushed its deficit outside the US from 60,000 tonnes to 640,000 tonnes. 🔹South32 sold most of its aluminum business to Alcoa for up to $5.6 billion, roughly 60% of its earnings, so it can become a copper company. 🔹Vedanta Group pulled its copper IPO 24 hours before pricing, after a roadshow that had reportedly gone well. Producers are pivoting hard. Sovereigns are squeezing every basis point out of the majors. And public equity is so nervous it killed a well supported listing with the bell about to ring. 3 signals, 1 direction. Read the full edition. Link👇 open.substack.com/pub/themerchan…

Korea getting shelled - SK Hynix down 15%.. big reasons for the decline







We’re sharing the next major milestone in our non-invasive brain-to-text decoder research: Brain2Qwerty v2. Building on v1, which was published today in @Nature, Brain2Qwerty v2 is the highest-performing end-to-end pipeline capable of real-time sentence decoding from raw brain signals. It advances beyond character-level performance to decoding words and semantics, enabling accuracy for overall communication. We believe this research has the potential to make a real difference for the millions of people who suffer from brain lesions or disorders that prevent them from communicating. 🧵👇






