u/Individual_Type_7908

Hey,

I have some insane use case where it could make sense for data purposes just for me, to rent a datscenter rack and put a powerful 32-64 cores cpu 512gb ecc ram type stuff server in there. And yeah. Run my own solana data pipeline.
I want to do sophisticated onchain trading, insane onchain wallet tracking/monitoring.. clustering smart/dumb money.. not just monitoring a few wallets.. keeping an eye on basically the whole chain and everyone.. and keeping an eye on all tokens and all wallets.. all transactions except for like the validator stuff i don't care about. So yeah I think it's gonna require an insane amount of data.. I'll be doing like tree models of entities.. entity clusters.. who sent solana/token to whom.. who might be an insider.. how much smart (profitable traders) currently in this coin versus dumb.. which wallets or entities(clusters) tend to bring liquidity to the coin after they buy.. just basically stuff I can't do with like 50usd/mo RPC subscription or something like that, not even with the cheaper grpc subscriptions.. just a toon of data.

I was wondering, how much work/maintenance is it once its up and running, to run a yellowstone grpc ? How often do you have to check your yellowstone grpc ? For personal use case, not sharing publicly.

I might want to run it unmetered, for constant data streams of a ton of data so its starting to look like a better investment for me rather than pay crazy expenses every month and not own it. If i own it I can do various stuff on there without even having to transfer some of the processed data to my network right. So yeah I might want to do it. I could also co-locate directly in that rack there right. The datacenter would cost me a bit, but i already got the costs of everything calculated so now it's just about whether I'll actually go for it or no. Which I guess i'll see, still considering it.

But yeah.. what do you need to keep an eye on when running it ? What tends to break ? How often do you have to update or do restarts ? And just how difficult is it to deploy it ? I mean I understand linux and computers generally, i can code.. + i got claude code so i guess I'm chill ? A few days of work and chill ? And if there are issues or stuff that's problematic, is it hard to build automations around it to make it less of a headache so you can almost forget it for months at a time and have it just work fine ? Most of the time ? Like i don't mind that much if it breaks once every few months and then it's fixed within day and boom forget it again for like 3-6 months.. is it like that ? Can it be ?

Yeah, if you have any experience or any advice then I'm definitely curious, anything i should watchout for ?

Also question, in practice what hardware/specs you think are truly good to have here ? I was thinking put a powerful 32-64 core cpu, 512gb ddr4 ecc ram with option to expand to 1tb in the future if needed. And internet connection 3gbps but expandsble to 10gbps if i request the datacenter.

And start with 2TB commercial ssd drive for the ledger itself, and whatever data i decide to store would go compressed to my data server which has over 100TB of free space currently. Do i need more than 2tb on the RPC itself ?

Would you say its overkill ? Or just right ? Or would you actually recommend more power ?

Hey,

I was wondering, say you're working on a business long term and you're genuinely working hard, long term, and you're genuinely trying to solve and address problems alright. And you have a genuine plan you're trying to pull off.

I wonder if religious like belief, that in the end you will succeed, that in the end it will work, and you will make it sooner or later. Trust the universe thing.

Whether that has really made you more successful, for those that did belive in this way.

Right now, i know I really want my things to work out, it logically makes sense, I'm doing step by step, getting closer. Buut there's still genuine risks in what I do. And I see the chance of failure as a very possible probability aswell. I don't know if it's a 50/50nor what the odds are, Idk. Buut, the odds of winning are there I believe. And then it's just a difficult long term process and lot of work for a long time, and alot of sacrifice.

What do you think ? I'm
Sure many of you, never thought about it this way and most of the time I don't either. But i just asked myself this question. Like religious like belief, that you'll make it, whether in the current business, or a different one. And by make it I mean, you will reach your high goals, not that... you believe that "you'll be fine" somehow.

What do you think ?

Like I have some confidence, and some real heavy doubt aswell, not that my idea is bad that's not what I'm necesarilly thinking, but that hey there are high odds I don't actually ever reach my goals. I definitely don't have that like internal spiritual trust the universe level confidence. Has real belief done alot for you ? Like... in a way being more confident, blindly in a way. Or I don't know.

Edit:
This question is tricky because there could be alot of survivorship bias, so it would be great if somebody who genuinely feels like this isn't good, whp has had alot of failure/success. Would confirm. I think it might tend to attract responses of people for whom it worked.

Hey i was wondering if any people in the solana trenches, trading memecoins, algorithmically/quantitatively, with statistical backtests on onchain data, pump.fun, pump swap, raydium, that sort of thing. Coins beloe like 500k marketcap, or even like few million marketcap coins, those are all super tiny shitcoins.

By onchain data i also mean swaps and not just transfers, swaps which you can use to reconstruct candles if you want, or price, marketcap too if you know circulating supply and price of the main asset.

Anybody playing that game ? Or am i only one getting into it ? I used to frontrun KOL signals in 2024, then i switched to quant and traditional markets, data analysis etc, now im combining the trenches with quant, technicals, and also wallet tracking to detect whales and single entities. Anybody ? What have you got to say, im curious. How has it been for you?

Hey,

I've been primarily into crypto and futures, slightly dipping my feet into forex, just overall looking around at everything, but mostly crypto/futures. I've also looked at prediction markets but they didnt suit me.

Now im trynna look at memecoins and cs2 skins, basically markets for which its either like super niche, or you have to dig to get data for then, they're very niche, and I think they might be heavily inneficient, and have highly exploitable edges.

Has anybody here traded that ? How has it been going ? And do you think on limited scale, a serious cs2 skin trader, could consistently make like 100-200% gains annually ? As long as portfolio stays small enough and there's enough market liquidity ? And you basically don't eat your own profits.

What have you been trading what's been your approach?

Hey,

Im curious about young very successful entrepreneurs. Or older too honestly, very curious aswell, but primarily under 30 in this post.

What do you do and what worked for you?
How difficult would you describe your journey as?

What quality that you have or qualities as a person, do you think got you where you are ?

How many years did it take you to get where you are currently with your latest business ?

Have you had other ventures before this one?

Are you all on your own or mostly, or do you have employees/partners/freelancers ?

Just in general I'm curious about you. And your story and your path. Anything you might have to say.

I'm asking for people under 30 because I think that's a very young age to be making this money, so I'm curious how those people did it, it's very exceptional to reach that, this fast. But if you are above 30 and you think you got something to share, you're also very welcome.

I want to widen my perspective, I've been trying to get this business running for 2 years and still do, it has real hope, but also real uncertainty, and I want to hear stories and gain perspective.

Hey,

I was wondering if there's truly any consistent prop firm traders out there. And by consistent.

I don't mean to offend anyone but I mean like not just sebody who's had even couple big payouts, or that makes a full time living from third world country (no offense i respect the grind, just not my personal situation), and somebody who can make more than a comfortable salary in first world country, so like.. atleast (averaging) 6000 usd a month or more. Not 1-2 k.. i mean like 6k average an more.. and somebody who's done that for atleast 18 months. I know you can live off less but im just trynna set the bar high. It's fine if you make that money with more accounts. But yeah is anybody actually doing it ? Or even like 12k+ a month average. Like is anybody truly scaled and prospering massively ?

Because I know its a tough game and you need solid edge and you need to manage rules and all that. And i feel there's so so much fakes on one side, larps, and people who are just lucky on the other side, temporarily profitable, or just survivorship bias. Ideally i'd ask is there anybosy who's done that for like 5+ years but prop firms haven't been around for long and most people probably got in not that long ago. So yeah I'm curious.

I know 20k or 30k in payouts may sound alot, and maybe it is depending, but i'm searching for people who did more, because I think you can make 20-30k with some luck/survivorship bias, and I'm not saying you were just lucky no.
I see some leaderboards of people who made alot of money and it sounds big and impressive

But from my perspective im just asking this, because I'm trynna figure out if it's even been done by some people, i know for sure yes, but how many ? I know its probably gonna be.. like under 1% of people, right. But I'm curious is it like.. few people ever.. OR.. sub 1% but like actually realistically doable under various conditions.

Yeah just wanna know if you exist, and please don't lie about numbers, and don't lie that you've made it when you just got few payouts please, it's good for you fine but I'm asking something else, i want to know.

And if you are one of those people, congratulations, I'm curious about literally anything you might wanna have to say, anything. I'm curious how have you been doing ? And how did you make it, in a nutshell, you can be specific how much you want, up to you. Im just curious

Oh and optionally, is there anybody who actually managed.. to use prop firms, to perhaps then make and compound own capital, from probably almost nothing or small sum in comparison, to a net worth of over 500k-1mil\~ dollars or more ?
What's your journey been like ? And please if you sell anything or offer mentorship please either don't speak or mention it. Please

Hey,

I was wondering if there's truly any consistent prop firm traders out there. And by consistent.

I don't mean to offend anyone but I mean like not just somebody who's had even couple big payouts, or that makes a full time living from third world country (no offense i respect the grind, just not my personal situation), and somebody who can make more than a comfortable salary in first world country, so like.. atleast (averaging) 6000 usd a month or more. Not 1-2 k.. i mean like 6k average an more.. and somebody who's done that for atleast 18 months. I know you can live off less but im just trynna set the bar high. It's fine if you make that money with more accounts. But yeah is anybody actually doing it ? Or even like 12k+ a month average. Like is anybody truly scaled and prospering massively ?

Because I know its a tough game and you need solid edge and you need to manage rules and all that. And i feel there's so so much fakes on one side, larps, and people who are just lucky on the other side, temporarily profitable, or just survivorship bias. Ideally i'd ask is there anybosy who's done that for like 5+ years but prop firms haven't been around for long and most people probably got in not that long ago. So yeah I'm curious.

I know 20k or 30k in payouts may sound alot, and maybe it is depending, but i'm searching for people who did more, because I think you can make 20-30k with some luck/survivorship bias, and I'm not saying you were just lucky no.
I see some leaderboards of people who made alot of money and it sounds big and impressive

But from my perspective im just asking this, because I'm trynna figure out if it's even been done by some people, i know for sure yes, but how many ? I know its probably gonna be.. like under 1% of people, right. But I'm curious is it like.. few people ever.. OR.. sub 1% but like actually realistically doable under various conditions.

Yeah just wanna know if you exist, and please don't lie about numbers, and don't lie that you've made it when you just got few payouts please, it's good for you fine but I'm asking something else, i want to know.

And if you are one of those people, congratulations, I'm curious about literally anything you might wanna have to say, anything. I'm curious how have you been doing ? And how did you make it, in a nutshell, you can be specific how much you want, up to you. Im just curious

Oh and optionally, is there anybody who actually managed.. to use prop firms, to perhaps then make and compound own capital, from probably almost nothing or small sum in comparison, to a net worth of over 500k-1mil~ dollars or more ?
What's your journey been like ? And please if you sell anything or offer mentorship please either don't speak or mention it. Please

Hey Im curious how have you found algotrading ideally or just trading generally smaller agricultural futures ? What sort of timeframes did you focus on ? Anybody tried short term ? Like minutes to hours (maybe up to a few days)? How has the playground been ? How would you compare to other assets ?

Most curious about what finding an edge in there has been like for you ? Have you found it harder or easier than whatever else you tried.

Any crypto bros who tried this ? Curious about it as it seems like smaller markets, with potential

I'm curious

At what point did you notice, maybe if you have big goals or some sort of ambition, that you naturally felt a drive to push it all the way, long term goals that require sense of purpose and delayed gratification ?

I feel some bursts of dopamine and focus return within 2-4 weeks depending, but the purpose seems to take more time or something more

I know what i want, or like what i want to do, but it has weak backing without caffeine or alternative stimulation. Or just short natural bursts that aren't enough on their own to drag it to the goal long term

Hey

I was wondering, why are retail trading forex so much? There's crypto, new, evolving, you can find alternative data and you can have a real edge, not as gatekept. You can probably focus on niche agricultural cfd's or micro-futures where also you have a shot at having a real structural edge. Or maybe prediction markets at some point if they become more liquid eventually.

Or if anything maybe you can do stocks which are still heavy institutional dominated and you can't really get as much of a structural edge, ofcourse you can make money in anything with little but you're already at a disadvantage in stocks, where atlest I can think of few advantages you could try to get, but, you don't have insider info which others may have, you probably don't have the data that quant firms have that you cannot get, it's well gate kept, even historical orderbook data is pain and if you have that in crypto, it's really useful, but in stocks ? You've just leveled the field a little bit, it's less meaningful.

Stocks / forex are also affected by politics which are pretty hard to predict, playing on that is very noisy I think, but i can sort of see you can specialize on some stocks or certain mechanics and play that.

But forex? I think it's where the gap is most amplified, decentralised markets(you don't have 1 source of data, it's big, and unreachable often times) , you can't get data beyond price and maybe some available stuff, you have banks with transactions data and ton of advantages you have no chance to ever get. And it's geopolitics and stuff you can't really predict I think, or very very very few people can and even then I think the edge is modest at best if you're really damm good, and maybe a bit of luck too. Like I just don't see why out of everything somebody would pick forex, a field saturated with giants who have so many enormous advantages and I don't see anything retail could use to level the field. In crypto or niche markets you can not just level the field but I would argue even become the main player almost if you're really serious and technical.

But forex is like, war is difficult on it's own, but you're picking to be like a small military with AK 47's against a full blown empire with jets and intelligence and all the modern tech. And you're choosing that voluntarily. So I wonder why ?

Enlighten me please, I've had this question in my head for a while. Like what you picked forex and sticked with it, there's probably a reason right ? Like why you thought forex would be where you would do well. I personally try really hard to gain structural edges in crypto, not just fight better(data analysis to find an edge in the data aka my strategy) but actually have superior ground and gear, more data that almost nobody has, stuff that's somewhat available but super annoying to process, hard work and nerdy work, and then ways to intepret it. And various stuff. But I just don't see any of that in forex, and stocks barely. Many niche agricultural markets driven by structural demand make sense to me too, where heavy quant is scarce. I can also see how I or somebody like me who's really serious among retail could try that, but stocks seem like uphill battle, and forex feels like doom, like almost impossible.

I'm not saying you can't win, ofcourse you can, but it's a hard game in any space, and forex seems like the worst one retail could pick, in my opinion, the profile is so so bad for retail. It's pretty horrible I think. So there has to be a reason why people pick that.

It's possible I'm unaware of edges retail can really exploit here, and if that's the case I would really like to know about that. Ofcourse there's "some" edge, but I'm talking about real leverage retail can have here. And repeat it.