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saturday - she finally found out
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monday was may 11. first anniversary.
i can tell you what i planned now. the secret is done. she found out. i won.
the reveal # we got in the car around 4pm. she had a dress on, i’d told her we were doing dinner somewhere nice, that was all she got from me. i drove toward la jolla which she clocked immediately.
expiration day: everything is already automated
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2:30 AM. may 15.
today is standard monthly options expiration. third friday of the month. the SPX condors i’ve been running since late april close today, or they already closed this week because the system flagged them as targets before i ever had to think about it.
roll logic: automating when to hold, roll, or close short premium
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2:15 AM wednesday.
A. made pasta around 7, crashed by 10 - she had a brutal deadline at work today. i cleaned the kitchen, sat down to “just check something,” and have been staring at this roll management code for four hours.
one year: system check
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5:30 AM. may 11.
she went to bed before me last night, which almost never happens. i stayed up reading market structure notes until around 2, realized sleep wasn’t coming, made coffee. opened the laptop.
two days out
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may 11 is in two days.
first anniversary. one year married. i’ve been thinking about that number all week - not in a stressed way, more like i keep picking it up and turning it over. one year. huh.
funding rate harvest: neutral crypto carry when momentum breaks
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2:15 AM. friday.
A. is asleep. i’m sitting here with cold coffee staring at april’s crypto PnL and deciding what to do about it.
BTC momentum strategy: -$800 for april. wrote about this monday. stale params, wrong regime. fair enough. i’m fixing the walk-forward pipeline. but even when that’s running clean, the strategy has real variance. some months it just doesn’t work.
vix futures term structure as regime filter — auto-switching theta vs momentum
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late night. A. went to bed around 10:30, told me not to stay up too late. i said “just finishing something.” she gave me that look. it’s now 2 AM.
walk-forward validation: stopped fooling myself with in-sample results
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2:15 AM monday.
A. called it around 11:30. she reads for like 20 minutes and then just drops — book still open on the nightstand, her laptop sitting open on the coffee table. I turned the screen off around midnight, refilled my coffee, sat back down.
saturday - nine days, lesson seven, she still hasn't cracked it
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nine days.
she asked again at breakfast. seventh or eighth attempt in the last two weeks - i’ve lost count. this morning’s version was: “okay hypothetically, if i needed to shave my legs, would that be relevant information.”
april done. built a signal quality gate with LightGBM.
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2:15 AM. saturday.
april closed today. before I get into what I actually built this week I’ll do the quick numbers.
april final: +$15,800. minor revision down from the +$16,500 estimate I had wednesday — a few iron condor legs settled a tick or two against on friday’s close, plus a small NQ position gave back $430 into the bell. nothing significant. still a clean month.