PL @plevchen

volatility in indices with the gap down today isn't correlating with bearishness in market beadth readings.. so far green and mid range stuff.. not so much of a bearish pivot we saw from the start of June market right.

“Full access” 😂

kanav @kanavtwt

5 days ago

Day 1 of vibecoding

2K 11K 108K 57.3M 6K

Swing traders getting excited about a breakout in the DXY.… FX most liquid efficiently priced AND mean reverting market in the world. So in general pressing range breaks in FX is not a great idea. Looking at a range break on a chart in FX is a marginal to a negative edge in general. And if you really filter down to the best ones, look at signal to noise on this thing. Magnitude of expected move vs risk. If you’re the best in FX you are annualising maybe 10-15%? Looking for breakouts on charts isn’t an edge on its own. You can simulate a GBM, ie a geometric brownian motion process, which is random BY DESIGN. Cumulative randomness shows some patterns. It shows some cycles some ranges and breakouts. It doesn’t mean those are non random. It doesn’t mean they are an edge just because you set a tight stop.

The most leading indicator of action and hence manifestation is intention.

The more you think you know the less perceptive you are. An open mind is silenced and empty.

Inference

Legendary

OpenAI’s financials have leaked, showing $21 billion in losses against $13 billion in revenue, per Fortune

if you look at what is working best... its the obvious "low IQ" darling stocks that are on everyone's mind, from pullback like pivots: semis -> $AMD $INTC $ARM $MRVL / adjacent $DELL ai hpc: $NBIS .. $SPCX .. turnaround in optics but no amazing follow through and no super clean setup. $LITE actionable few days ago but choppy character.. $AXTI clean trader way up and down, 50day U&R not my kind of setup but clean confluence 6/12 5min ORB / 2PDH with 50day reclaim off to races.. post catalyst flags are not working as well, and not clean traders generally.. some recent best examples $VECO after few shakeouts.. $AMBQ no follow through.. $GH example of nice pattern but rando stock not in a key market group.. you can look at relative themes/groups performance wiht alot of "semi" (inference/testing/equipment/custom chips) and AI HPC are the ones that have maintained RS vs market throughout.. Crypto and Silver joining with "bottom bounce" type moves more recently, from a general strategy stand point these are lower grade as highest RS "wins" as a ranking principle during shallower corrections as we've had lately with $QQQ to the 50day MA. market "higher lowed" at the 50day faster than expected, leaders off to races without much of a pivot "faster than expected" ... burden of proof back on the bears/shorts at this point.

$SPCX following $CRCL template pretty closely.. close at vwap (nomansland) day 1 after strong day but undercut of vwap into close.. up pre market follow through D2. 10 odd 2x levered ETFs on $SPCX.. options tuesday.. indices additions.. "the world" wants you to buy this stock it seems lol.. and its acting like it.. roundtripped decent gain into a loss D1 even tho D1 performance was well within template.. afterhours D1 or VWAP curl today as D2 valid setups today.. gap up tomorrow first decision pt on exit, wiht obviously any flag-like structure on daily actionable as a long.. with ETFs and index related buying, look at itnraday surf of MAs for clues...

keyboard_arrow_left Previous keyboard_arrow_right Next

PL @plevchen

2 weeks ago

memorable recent IPO day 1s: $CRCL 1 year 7 days ago exactly [crypto] $BLSH (Bearish) 2025-08-13 [crypto] $CRWV 2025-03-18 $CRBS 2026-05-14

keyboard_arrow_left Previous keyboard_arrow_right Next

0 0 4 4K 2

I'm doing one quick targeted pass so I can give you the exact answer rather than hand-waving

@OptexSignals Amazing work man!

$QQQ some observations about price without opinions: - volatility regime has shifted to HIGH as of Friday last week. - volatility regime has become entrenched courtesy of yesterday and today - orderly selling during quiet market hours that has ensued of this week is a big character change from before - the nature of yesterday is such that a large amount of liquidations must have taken place at the lows or near in $QQQ - yesterday's high confirmed the first LOWER high. - the declining 10day MA & 20day MA become key points of interest on the way up. - the rising 50day MA and AVWAPs are key points of interest as potential support. - market breadth metrics for 10% movers show a clear character change first time since April, with 1wk up/down ratios printing in bottom 15%th percentile of 5 year history give or take. - the number of quality actionable setups on the long side has gone to zero. wait and see mode on the market. $SNDK $MU continue to show incredible RS holding the 20day MAs. you do start to wonder what its going to take for these to give bakc their 20days after another gazillion percent advances. theres a plenty semis that look MUCH stronger than $SOXX / $SMH like $AMBQ .. datacenter/neocloud names are still holding uptrends by and large although have started a meaningfull pullback to the 50day MA. $NBIS $HUT $HIVE $KEEL $RIOT $CORZ highest RS. $CRWV $IREN clear laggards potentially broken / backside names wiht multiple confirmations of weakness. optics have gone sideways but still holding on to the 50day MA w.r.t. higher quality leaders such as $LITE $AAOI $TSEM $COHR. but mixed picture, $CIEN the og clearly broken. and spec parts are unwinding $MXL $AXTI $LWLG .. with obvious supports like 50day MA in $QQQ i am open to material volatility and taking few days to settle.. so in terms of things to look for is a clear "higher low" around or near it, and range compression.. with regards to stock its a time to look for RS signs daily..

keyboard_arrow_left Previous keyboard_arrow_right Next

This is contradicts mainstream portfolio theory which is rooted in mean-variance optimisation and Sharpe ratio type stuff. Instead you optimise for your actual intended end state, optimal compounded return growth aka optimal log growth and use information theory maths to assess how well your a specific strategy “compresses information surprise” vs a baseline you’re comparing against. Compression in information surprise is effectively a measure of prediction improvement aka increased edge in your strategy (if any). Sharpe and mean-variance doesn’t handle practical realities of trading/investing well: - distribution skews - fat-tails - path-dependency as a property of your strategy, not “overfitting” ! - regime-sensitivity of your strategy So with mean variance maths you end up adding crude “patches” and dirty heuristics to deal with these realities. If you apply information theory you have a fundamental first principles approach to modelling predictive power. Credits Kelly 1956; Claude Shannon; KL divergence dudes; Thomas M Cover; Stiffelman (2026, arXiv)

PL @plevchen

2 weeks ago

See screenshot. Trading portfolio optimisation is about COMPOUNDED return growth not arithmetic return growth, for obvious reasons. If you lose all your chips, you can’t bet. Log(0) = negative infinity. So that’s why we use log return growth in Kelly sizing not arithmetic.

0 0 3 2K 4

See screenshot. Trading portfolio optimisation is about COMPOUNDED return growth not arithmetic return growth, for obvious reasons. If you lose all your chips, you can’t bet. Log(0) = negative infinity. So that’s why we use log return growth in Kelly sizing not arithmetic. Typical expectancy formula EV=p(win) + (1-p)*loss becomes a naive abstraction. You only realise it’s naïveté when you confront risk of ruin modelling. Optimal trading portfolio allocation, ie allocation of position weights across a number of assets is given by G(W) = term 1 - term 2 - term 3 Term (1) the payoffs of the optimal set of return paths. Think of it as Optimal market “opportunity”/forward return distribution (it is never known or knowable in principle, but if only you could know it… Term (2) 2nd term is the natural irreducible uncertainty of the optimal market opportunity distribution. (Hint: information entropy) Term (3) is how much your actual allocation differs from the optimal. Ie let’s say it the true optimal allocation is (20% to stock A, 80% to stock B). And you are allocated 50,50. You can measure the “information loss” or edge loss from your allocation vs the optimum. (Hint: KL divergence). Now, W* in H(W*) is the collection (vector) of position allocations that would maximize expected your COMPOUNDED account growth if you knew the true joint market’s return distribution. That is the theoretical optimum. In reality you can never know W*. That’s why an achievable PRACTICAL optimum is: how can we get as close as I can to W* without knowing the true distribution? Crucially, in the equation above, which btw isn’t just made up but is deterministically derivable from Kelly + Cover’s universal portfolio theory, Your allocation / trading decisions only ever affect term 3. So optimisation problem reduces to optimising the KL divergence between your allocation to the true optimal allocation. Re-formulation of portfolio return optimisation In this way is breaking new ground, because it gives you an ordering principle/heuristic to use in your backtesting: You can now evaluate the quality of your (backtested or realised) return distribution and the quality of your allocation in the same unit: log-growth / information bits. Each factor/feature of the strategy has a “usefulness” score as given by its KL divergence. You can use these scores to optimise sizing. This enables you to calculate m a “practical optimum” : What is the best position size to use on a setup that has a known historical return distribution GIVEN you know certain features of a the setup in advance.

*ANTHROPIC: RECEIVED DIRECTIVE FROM U.S. GOVERNMENT TODAY AT 5:21PM, LETTER DID NOT PROVIDE SPECIFIC DETAILS OF ITS NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERN *ANTHROPIC: OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THAT U.S. GOVT BELIEVES IT HAS BECOME AWARE OF A METHOD OF BYPASSING, OR “JAILBREAKING” FABLE 5 *ANTHROPIC: SUSPECT THAT PERFECT JAILBREAK RESISTANCE IS NOT CURRENTLY POSSIBLE FOR ANY MODEL PROVIDER *ANTHROPIC- IF THIS STANDARD WAS APPLIED ACROSS THE INDUSTRY, IT WOULD ESSENTIALLY HALT ALL NEW MODEL DEPLOYMENTS FOR ALL FRONTIER MODEL PROVIDERS

Alpha is the first Greek letter. Omega is the last. Our mind imagines experience in a linear fashion. Beginning to end. However, “being” is a circle. Alpha and Omega on a circle is the same point. We emerge out of source and instead of “completion”, through “difference” and experience we return to source, enriched by the journey. The circle of being never ceases. It is ever present. It starts at infinite intelligence and returns to infinite intelligence, with limitations existing at varying degrees only in our awareness.