midway / midway is on Nostr

Part-time options trader. Alt-tech enthusiast. Purveyor of odd ideas.

Nothing here is trading advise. I can't know your personal situation or risk tolerance.

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Last Notes

2026-10-23 17:15:23 UTC

This is one I'm developing myself. I've used OptionNet Explorer for years and it works well, but there were things I just didn't like about it...mostly that it only runs on Windows so I've had to keep a Windows VM around just to run it. Plus there were other features I wanted. So I've been hacking away at this (w/ the help of Claude) for the past 2 months and I'm now using it full-time and l've started an early beta program with another trader I know to try to find more bugs/ideas/etc.
I'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's become a PITA to self-host. But outside of that, I run a bunch of the services I use locally.

2026-10-23 13:39:26 UTC

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's how a lot of calendars work.
I will likely sit out until at least Thursday, maybe all week due to lots of events (big tech earnings, FOMC, and the midterms).
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2026-10-19 19:29:15 UTC

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'll see. But with the higher IV, I'm getting good room to start.
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2026-10-16 14:37:28 UTC

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.
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2026-10-15 20:07:31 UTC

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.
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.

2026-10-15 14:27:52 UTC

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.
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.
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.

2026-10-14 19:49:42 UTC

Now that the CPI is out, I put on a new calendar trade. With the jump in IV, I'm good with going back to 4 days apart on my 23 day trade.
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2026-10-14 15:08:55 UTC

More like phrases:
“Call me tonight when the long distance rates go down“
“You won’t have a calculator with you wherever you go”
“Look that up in the Yellow Pages”
“If you want to do effective research you should understand the Dewey Decimal System”

2026-10-13 02:14:55 UTC

My latest trade review video is up on BitChute, Rumble, and PeerTube.
This week was a pretty calm, complacent week in the markets, which is great for my style of trading. I put on a trade on Tuesday, took profits on Friday. Things are likely to pick up soon so it's good to take advantage of the quieter times. Good lessons here.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/C4cy94jSBA6R/
https://rumble.com/v7gs2m6-twmt-week-ending-october-9-2026-riding-with-5-wide.html
https://tube.midwaytrades.com/w/rRmMazvLHJEGBgEr1hHCjR

2026-10-09 16:09:37 UTC

Closed my calendars for 8% in 3 days. So for the 5 days apart is working well.
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2026-10-06 19:45:53 UTC

Opened a new calendar. Sticking with 5 days apart, shorts are 24 days out.
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2026-10-04 19:34:03 UTC

My latest trade review video is up on BitChute, Rumble, and PeerTube.
Trading went well as we wrapped up September and entered the 4th quarter of the year. My calendar trades are still working well. This week I'm debuting a beta version of a new trading tool that I'm developing and as part of that beta, I tried to use it for this review. It went pretty well for a first cut, but it showed me a few gaps I need to work on. I welcome any feedback on the tool as well as my trades.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/z6Kryp2a3AkN
https://rumble.com/v7gdvmq-twmt-week-ending-october-2-2026-experimenting-with-a-new-tool.html
https://tube.midwaytrades.com/w/d6hg66x38XaXFXt4zkLN8C

2026-10-02 19:40:35 UTC

I went ahead and closed my calendars for 6.5% in 2 days. IV helped me the last couple of days..I think the 5 days apart on the legs did help.
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2026-09-30 19:49:21 UTC

I put on new calendars 23 days out with the shorts 5 days out instead of 4...just an experiment to see this helps with the IV. Similar risk since I took it down to a 3-lot.
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2026-09-30 19:16:10 UTC

I went ahead and took of my calendars from last week for ~7%. I could have probably waited to get my full profit target, but time is risk and I'm ok taking a profit and putting a fresh trade on. This was a bit of a trader's choice. I may try going 5 days apart to see if that helps...IV has been really dragging my calendars recently.
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2026-09-29 01:09:34 UTC

My latest trade review video is up on BitChute, Rumble, and PeerTube.
I was busy with life last week so I combined the last 2 weeks into this review. I intentionally traded around the FOMC meeting and unintentionally traded around a big move early last week (sometimes life getting in the way is a good thing). Anyway, there are some good lessons here so check it out and let me know what you think
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yVYU8zbZKjwL
https://rumble.com/v7g4hiq-twmt-weeks-ending-september-18-and-25-2026-skipping-the-big-moves.html
https://tube.midwaytrades.com/w/wjnTfcXuUHejEDGzoYmoiW

2026-09-27 20:21:54 UTC

Yet all I see there is people talking about Nostr. I love the idea, but until there's more going on, it's going to struggle. If there are accounts I should follow that talk about things other than Nostr and Bitcoin, I'm all ears.