2026-10-14T00:47:43Z https://njump.me midway https://njump.me/npub1p645smw3sflqh5x0f3nfqdyncq2drfwflememwuesaxvnkyrvshq9f44wz https://soapbox.midwaytrades.com/media/711385d8a2c8b94357c26377c1b7099c60950fc4eaf64668d4625e2a68921f51.png https://soapbox.midwaytrades.com/media/711385d8a2c8b94357c26377c1b7099c60950fc4eaf64668d4625e2a68921f51.png https://njump.me/nevent1qqszaf6z706dkqst7nlt556fdzg5udemht225d73kf4gwrekyruzpdszyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzua2ja04 This is one I&#39;m developing myself. I&#39;ve used OptionNet Explorer for years and it works well, but there were things I just didn&#39;t like about it...mostly that it only runs on Windows so I&#39;ve had to keep a Windows VM around just to run it. Plus there were other features I wanted. So I&#39;ve been hacking away at this (w/ the help of Claude) for the past 2 months and I&#39;m now using it full-time and l&#39;ve started an early beta program with another trader I know to try to find more bugs/ideas/etc.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve been on a massive kick to own my own stuff...I just picked up a decent starter AI box so I can run private models and not rely on the big guys nearly as much. I have my own mini data center at the house..this fedi instance has run on it for years. I still outsource email because, IMO, it&#39;s become a PITA to self-host. But outside of that, I run a bunch of the services I use locally. 2026-10-23T17:15:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdp6a00eh82sx0pezmagx57c2quyu44a67hwplrp8nakc69zyxchszyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzu2ynwtc My calendars closed at the market open for 8%. This trade was all IV and time decay...no real help from price movement, but that&#39;s how a lot of calendars work.<br/><br/>I will likely sit out until at least Thursday, maybe all week due to lots of events (big tech earnings, FOMC, and the midterms).<br/><br/> <img src="https://soapbox.midwaytrades.com/media/60cc83a3-77f9-49e6-8f89-a64956e3137d/468_close.png"> 2026-10-23T13:39:26Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs26te0vatp3p4dfpyn89a90xj5a3up3magg628m29yjqdgnejnkxczyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzutu4mdh I opened a new SPX calendar 25 days to expiration with the longs 4 days further out. Opened it a bit earlier in the week than usual to see if I can squeeze anything out of it before FOMC week next week. We&#39;ll see. But with the higher IV, I&#39;m getting good room to start.<br/><br/> <img src="https://soapbox.midwaytrades.com/media/f8902393-4f56-431c-9c87-913d74a6c3dd/468_open.png"> 2026-10-19T19:29:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx3alv6vzg238g683drkkjtvcrxht6j8tseylhrwlvc783xhxsgmczyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzuh0khh7 My trade from late Weds closed unexpectedly this morning for 8%. Just a strange spike in price that the broker caught for me. This is why I *always* have close order in for my target profit. There is no way I would have manually caught this.<br/><br/> <img src="https://soapbox.midwaytrades.com/media/b9baa5b5-1124-4c52-9328-6d3dd1b61a96/467_cose.png"> 2026-10-16T14:37:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy7d6qk6rwznf5xu7jl2hc4p7sksvydtq96ufg0t4u5upeygh5y5qzyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzu4we88m You may be. Individuals can be. But large political organizations can’t really be...and that’s ok. There are differences that just can’t be overcome. Factions may be able to temporarily align around a common interest but, much like the US and the USSR in WW2, outside of that issue they are still in opposite sides and if you try to be one organization, you’ll have a schism.<br/><br/>That’s why there isn’t a viable 3rd party in the US. They end up only really agreeing that they don’t like the 2 parties but not much else. That was the fate of Perot’s “Reform Party“. Once it qualified for Federal money it just became a money grab between factions. 2026-10-15T20:07:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs04sgec96q25xysfamt5qvex7x4mxmp8u4qxrput7uqjj567nmjxgzyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzu9h7trh For the DMV, bi-partisan means they have 1990s Democrats on the right and outright Communists on the left. I grew up in the People’s Republic of Maryland. Moved away as an adult. No regrets.<br/><br/>It’s kind of like in the south. They say they have both kinds of churches: Baptist and Southern Baptist. But there it’s actually just a joke.<br/><br/>My point is they may actually believe they are non-partisan because the local Overton Window is so skewed to the left that actual conservatism is just out of bounds. 2026-10-15T14:27:52Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs27k3hn57jn3ecamnppc8zfrqmx8pjgsrvwj7yzce2sqgcf7red8qzyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzudf4dmx Now that the CPI is out, I put on a new calendar trade. With the jump in IV, I&#39;m good with going back to 4 days apart on my 23 day trade.<br/><br/> <img src="https://soapbox.midwaytrades.com/media/10aaaa03-455a-49c9-afc7-e617614406d3/467_open.png"> 2026-10-14T19:49:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstgs9dqkm5u5r2yep6kgq9qnkeczpjmy30t70gpkjzpze6ec7fkkczyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzuczulha More like phrases:<br/><br/>“Call me tonight when the long distance rates go down“<br/><br/>“You won’t have a calculator with you wherever you go”<br/><br/>“Look that up in the Yellow Pages”<br/><br/>“If you want to do effective research you should understand the Dewey Decimal System” 2026-10-14T15:08:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst5k9vngzd2unyq4vrll8yp2wsfucvjzprd854yhmaxegn7v3j7qqzyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzuv8uw49 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspv8rd0s3cmhaaf67d3x2ftfm96r0t3z0mlpgdtf8luwafemn373q0vrdf0'>nevent1q…rdf0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You are free to believe he’s lying about why he got banned…but given the time it is perfectly reasonable to believe the story that he was banned because he wouldn’t censor legal speech in the US. It was all the rage on most platforms back then. Heck, he’s shown letters from governments demanding he give over info and ban accounts for legal speech in the US and he’s told them to pack sand. Maybe he faked all that too, but it seems believable given the laws those governments have enacted so he gets the benefit of the doubt from me. <br/><br/>Like I said, I don’t care for the guy personally and don’t want to live in a place where he would get to set real world (as opposed to online) policies. But I give him credit for trying to build parallel infrastructure and ecosystems that do serve people who think like him and where you don’t get banned for merely expressing ideas. To me, that matters and the world is better for it. Yes, the social tides have shifted towards sanity in the US recently but they could just as easily swing back the other way. 2026-07-03T20:04:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs97zakrpysfuj9rk4kacd073aks5n0k5stnsjggm7569acq64xy5gzyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzu76uguy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0xxj92wu23ve6f3jnu94gdp4r6405q5mwf5du28tmnpfcsc66wuqd2xr2w'>nevent1q…xr2w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Cloudflare has been one of the few to stand up and not cancel them. But both major cloud services, Joyent, several DNS registrars, and a ridiculous number of banks and payment providers have done so. My guess is activists have figured out what they are using and started campaigns and these folks just didn’t want the hassle. On one hand I get it but, on the other, it’s sad that these companies will sever ties to paying customers for, essentially, political reasons. He tried basing his code based on on ActivityPub (that actually how I came to know it) and you can only imagine the uproar. Most of the apps hard coded in blocks to his site which, to me, goes against the spirit of the project…let users and instances make blocking decisions. <br/><br/>Maybe he’s full of shit here. I can’t possibly know for sure. He has produced receipts in the past. I don’t really have a dog on the fight but I want to live in a world where stuff like Gab exists because I actually believe in free anonymous expression even when that means it’s from people I disagree with strongly about a lot of things. 2026-07-03T20:04:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswu0kcqx54vp3wex9pzhnn0hwznsmg325nz6h5zyc8dq5rjyz56sszyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzu00pem2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq23w4rjrkprrv9k2srnhn7cgye938y2dt3074f323guldfh7s4qqpvjcau'>nevent1q…jcau</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Gab can’t use hosting companies…they tried and kept getting cancelled so they’ve had to host everything themselves. It’s the only way to not get censored. When governments and banks try to cancel you, hosting companies and cloud providers fold quickly. <br/><br/>I agree he needs more redundancy though. While I don’t agree with Torba about much, I respect his commitment to free speech and believe he should have a fair shot at a business. It’s also why I run my own instance here on my own gear. I’ve seen what big tech had tried over the years… 2026-07-03T20:04:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsddayzyct7f2ste0hnfufw2qw6k77gk4w8qjrnnxtht3t926wc75szyq82kjrd6xp8uz7seaxxdyp5j0qpf5d9e8l808dmnxr5ejwcsdjzu3wgyjn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdpw837hzxwhljpazkqcrq3rg0w3myayue7hfv37hf5cduj3a76fceextew'>nevent1q…xtew</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>RIPE is threatening to pull their ASN. Pretty sure that will hurt them in Europe … not sure about the rest of the world. 2026-06-30T22:11:31Z