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Lotus Technology Inc.
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Brother, if you find yourself undecided, what I teuly recommend is to backtest A LOT. test all market conditions, see the right hour to entry and which pair performs best and when

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THAT PUMP STARTING TO MAKE A LOT OF SENSE

Trading is cruel. It's never easy. It takes A LOT of hard work and discipline. You can make it, but be humble. Find one strategy that works for you and stick with it. You can do it. Start small. 1 share at a time.

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So Altman is fine with roving ai death squads & horrifically in-depth mass surveillance of Americans? the DoD NEEDED to do this deal as fast as possible, because they have a LOT of lists to make & the midterms are coming, a soldier might not want to ‘you know’ a potential voter on polling day, but a fully autonomous drone squad? Shit, they have no qualms about morality. Calls on any company that sells EM weapons, anti-drone tech & personal defence equipment

some people learn whatever lesson you hopefully learned a LOT later in life

I’ve bought several of them from APMEX at spot over the last two years - glad to have some small gold instead of just ounces
Keep in mind that saving for a whole year while the price is rising your ounce could cost a LOT more too. If it took you all of 2025 to save for an ounce it went up $2000 - so saving for a whole ounce isn’t ALWAYS the best way.

I see A LOT of quantitative analysis, but little to no qualitative analysis on the actual business. You didn't mention what this company actually *does*

YEAH I AM BACK

A LOT OF YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING WHERE I’VE BEEN.

TRUTH IS, I DISAPPEARED INTO THE JUNGLE TO HUNT THE COLOMBIAN CARTEL. MONTHS OF SILENCE. WATCHING. LEARNING. EARNING THEIR TRUST. EVENTUALLY, THEY BROUGHT ME IN.

BY THE TIME I RESURFACED, I WASN’T CHASING THEM ANYMORE — I WAS RUNNING THEIR EAST COAST OPERATIONS.

THEY CALL ME EL GRINGO

Oh I'm very much looking forward to the coming quarter just to see how much of the new potential revenue sources can be revived, and built on, just quite sour about that presumably sizeable deal we were briefed on, and even had a suggestive end of year PR about under Sumit over a year ago, then were reminded about it a couple times, then... crickets.
I bought a LOT of shares based on that trajectory, and nothing came of it at all.

Please forgive the noob question...

I've been a long time lurker in this sub while building my own models / features / ML pipeline / PPO / execution engine in python. Maybe i'm doing something different than a majority here, but i'm not really understanding the whole backtesting thing you guys are all talking about and showing here daily.
I train symbol specific models and have my model pipeline learn from X months of previous data (anywhere between 12-60 months - set in my yamls). Before everyone takes a tangent about overfitting, I took a LOT of time to code: strict chronological splits (no random shuffles), full walk-forward validation, OOF predictions only for meta training, zero look-ahead features (everything computed from completed bars only), feature engineering frozen prior to OOS evaluation, thresholds tuned only on validation (never on test), and final performance reported on unseen forward data. Not every symbol I test has edge, but that's to be expected. Once I have a tuned symbol model, I run it on live (paper) trading. Is this equivalent to what everyone here is calling backtesting?

When people talk about backtesting here, does that really mean they are coming up with a hypothesis of "if I try using XYZ features, at this TP/SL ratio, what happens over time"? Can I equate what I'm doing with Machine Learning to this?

I don't want to cloud this conversation talking about results, I'm merely trying to learn about what I may be doing wrong or missing. To me, backtesting doesn't really apply to my pipeline, can someone help me intellectually bridge this gap in my understanding?

When CFO says “there is no ambiguity about that”… there is a LOT of ambiguity and that is because they are waist deep in this shit

A LOT OF YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING WHERE I’VE BEEN.

TRUTH IS, I DISAPPEARED INTO THE JUNGLE HUNTING THE COLOMBIAN CARTEL. MONTHS OF SILENCE. WATCHING. LEARNING. EARNING THEIR TRUST. EVENTUALLY, THEY BROUGHT ME IN.

BY THE TIME I RESURFACED, I WASN’T CHASING THEM ANYMORE — I WAS RUNNING THEIR EAST COAST OPERATIONS.

THEY CALL ME EL GRINGO

Unrelated to finance, but I highly recommend subscribing to the "Pilot Debrief" channel on YouTube. You will get a ton of valuable lessons on how to stay alive. The guy who runs it used to be an Air Force fighter jet pilot, and now he's a commercial pilot. Each video, he examines a fatal private plane crash, and "debriefs" us on everything that went wrong. Almost all the time, the crash was due to an overconfident or inexperienced pilot who got himself into a bad situation that he couldn't handle. I have never flown, but I watch that channel religiously, and I am constantly shaking my head on how some pilots think that nothing bad can possibly happen to them. Trust me, you will learn a LOT. Good luck on your journey!

The AOTC is $2500/ year but has income ceilings - check that you don’t exceed it. If you don’t, just pay $4000/ year and you’ll get the $2500 credit at tax time.
If he is receiving a lot of scholarships/grants, know that any amount paying for room&board is taxable income to him. If he gets A LOT of grants/scholarships, sometimes it makes sense to move” an extra $4000 into the taxable to him category so you can qualify for the $2500.

Stop chasing. Set it and forget it. Had to make this tough choice myself.
Trading isn't for everybody and nobody gives a shit but you.
Find yourself a chunky monthly dividend. That should help. 1% a month compounds a LOT faster than you might think.
No need to give up. Just pivot. Seems like you're an investor. Not a trader. And there's nothing wrong with that.

A LOT OF YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING WHERE I’VE BEEN.

TRUTH IS, I DISAPPEARED INTO THE JUNGLE HUNTING THE COLOMBIAN CARTEL. MONTHS OF SILENCE. WATCHING. LEARNING. EARNING THEIR TRUST. EVENTUALLY, THEY BROUGHT ME IN.

BY THE TIME I RESURFACED, I WASN’T CHASING THEM ANYMORE — I WAS RUNNING THEIR EAST COAST OPERATIONS.

THEY CALL ME EL CASHFLOW

At 29 and retiring at 50? You will need to make a LOT of money. They say people now who are 65, with medical advancements, will live over 100 years old. At your age, it may be 150 years old. Unless you live in abject poverty, I would expect to work until you are into your 80s. That is, unless you gain some income outside of the traditional means.

I have been gearing a bunch of bad stuff about APMex lately.
I have been using SD bullion for about 15 years. They are in my opinion the best. I am not a paid advertiser for them nor do I work for them.
I have done a LOT of business with them over the years and they are excellent. Coast Coin is great too. They no longer sell bullion.
I have been into precious metals and numismatics for about 25 years. My opinion and advice, stay away from ingots, bars and rounds. Stick with US Silver Eagles from a reputable dealer like SD bullion. You do not pay tax if you sell US gold or silver bullion coins. Foreign silver, ingots, rounds and bars you can pay up to 28%
Lately I have been buying AUC/ UC or Brilliant UC rolls of of Pre 65 1/2 dollars, quarters and dimes from SD bullion. Beautiful coins, great prices, great customer service.

Wide variety of silver and some fractional gold and platinum. Nearly all premium govt silver and gold! All are singles unless otherwise noted! ASE LOT! MAPLE BU & MILKY LOTS!! LIB Deal! GEIGER & VALCAMBI & PAMP!
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KITCO $Silver: $89.47 (@10:30pm EST 2.27.26)\*
KITCO $Gold: $5185.60 (@10:30pm EST 2.27.26)\*
KITCO $Platinum: $2386 (@10:30pm EST 2.27.26)\*
\*will adjust for any significant spot changes
GOLD:
2016 1/10oz AGE PCGS MS70 First Strike 30th Anniversary - $595
2021 Aussie 1/20th oz Gold Lunar Year of the Ox - $315
2026 PAMP 1 gram gold bar Lunar Horse in Multigram Assay - $180
Argor-Heraeus 1 gram gold bar in Assay Card (slight superficial chip lower left of plastic) - $172
Valcambi 1 gram gold bar from Combibar (in cap) - $176
PLATINUM:
(2) - PAMP 1 gram Lady Fortuna platinum bar in Multigram Assay - $90 EA
PAMP 1 gram Lady Fortuna platinum bar (loose) - $85
SILVER:
U S A 🇺🇸-
ASE (10) Lot - $950 (some tone, some cloud)
1994, 2009, 2010, 2012x4, 2015, 2021 Type 2, 2026
Canuckland:🍁 🇨🇦
Maple Leaf BU x 5 Lot - $470 ($94 EA)
\- 2008x4, 2021
Maple Leaf (milky) x 4 Lot - $370 (\~$92 EA)
\- 2008x3, 2015
AUSSIE-land (🇦🇺):
2020 & 2021 Silver Dragon Bars - $99 EA
2019 Silver Lunar Year of the Pig in APMEX Bag - $96
Swiss 🇨🇭:
Valcambi 100x1 gram Combibar in Assay - $385
(5) - Loose Valcambi gram bars - $4 EA (5 for $18)
Valcambi 1 oz silver Skyline Bar in Assay - $125
2022 PAMP 1 oz silver Bar Lunar Year of the Tiger - $135
Mexico Libertad-tads: 🇲🇽
🔥 LIB 🐳 DEAL: $350🔥
1990 (some tone) - $135
2023 - $110
2022 in APMEX TEP PCGS First Strike - $125
MISC:
Geiger 50 gram silver Bar Serialized in Assay - $320
2022 South Africa Krug (in cap) - $94
2 oz silver .308 bullet - $180 (MELT)
These coins and bars have been stored in a cool, dry, humidity controlled place, sealed in a heavy ziplock bags.
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