Helle there, Eastern Catholic here, what teaching do the sspx follow that made rome excommunicate your order? I have no knowledge about this other than what i have read online so please do enlighten me.
Thank you and May God bless you all
Hey guys, I am a Respiratory Therapist moving into sleep medicine , can you guys recommend any study material that i can use for the RPSGST liscensing examination . It would be preferable for it to be cheap/free as i am working as a RT in a 3rd world country and the pay i get is abysmal
Noticing a lot of thinning, what can i do ?
What do y'all suggest I do to reduce my thinning. I don't have a current routine ( use oils and shampoo sometimes maybe 3-4 times a month) and I wanted 60/40 haircut look.
Hey r/algotrading,
Ive really watned to get into trading but i had know idea about it , i had a claude code plan and i used it to build a bot that trades. more details given below (PS- i dont what half if this even means so i generrated the prompt below using claude)
What I built:
A day trading bot in Python running on Alpaca paper trading ($100k starting capital). It trades US large-cap equities (AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, AMD, SPY, QQQ, GOOGL, NFLX, JPM) using a combination of:
- EMA crossover (13/34) on 1-min bars with 5-min timeframe alignment confirmation - ADX regime filter — trending (ADX > 33) vs ranging (ADX 15–33) vs no-trade (ADX < 15) - ADX slope filter — full size when ADX rising, half size when falling AND ORB (16-min opening range breakout) between 9:45–11:00 AM - VWAP mean reversion in ranging conditions (±2.4 SD bands, RSI < 25 / > 75)
- ATR-based vol-normalised position sizing — 0.5% portfolio risk per trade, stop at 2.45x ATR, target at 5.0x ATR
- Break-even stop kicks in after price moves 0.75x ATR in our favour - Trailing stop at 1.5x ATR after 2x ATR profit - Circuit breakers: 3% daily loss halt, 2-loss-per-symbol cooldown, 20-min cooldown after stop
Backtest (2022–2026, vectorized on 1-min Alpaca IEX bars):
- Return: +3% over 4 years at 1% risk — I know, not impressive - Win rate: 39.8%, R:R: 1.56, profit factor: 1.03 - 2022 alone: +15.5% — strategy loves volatile trending markets - 2023–2026 combined: -12.5% — bleeds in choppy conditions - 86% of exits are stop losses — this is what's killing it
Honest questions:
1. How do you know when a strategy is actually working vs just got lucky on the time period you tested? My 2022 results are great but I'm suspicious they're just a fluke from the bear market.
2. 86% of my exits are stop losses. 437 stops vs 46 take profits over 4 years. R:R is fine (1.56) and I'm barely above breakeven at 39.8% win rate — but the stop rate feels broken. Is that normal for momentum strategies or is something fundamentally wrong with my entries?
3. At what point did you trust your paper trading results enough to go live with real money? What's a minimum paper trading period that actually means something?
4. What's the biggest mistake you made early on that you wish someone had warned you about?
Using IEX feed (free tier) not SIP — aware this might be affecting my bar data quality, especially high/low ranges.
Any suggestions would be helpfull
Hey guys how are yall doing?
I recently was interested in trading but i dont know a lick of trading what do u recommoned i can learn from , is paper trading worth it before going live?
What sources do yall suggest i can learn
Any advice no matter how harsh would be understood