Wanted to keep everyone posted on what is going on in the background here and some updates to the forum.
Options Research Data
Thanks to our Patrons, we’ve been able to open an account with ORATS which provides live dumps of market wide option chain data. We’ll be importing this data into a database so we can continue the research we’ve been doing on predicting gamma squeezes with the benefit of easy access to emerging and historical trends. An API will be provided free of charge to the community so those who’d like, can also utilize the data for what purposes they may have.
Forum Plugin Additions & Fixes
In continuing to build out the forum, I’ve added a few more plugins.
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Highlighting - Probably one of the less useful sounding, but more useful in practice plugins is a highlighting plugin that enables users to ==highlight portions of a post==. This is accomplished by selecting the text you’d like to highlight and clicking the
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Additional Formatting Options - Justification, the ability to add an image via URL instead of upload, text sizing and coloring are all now available.
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Events - With callouts, there are often times events or important dates associated. You can now click the
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SMTP Relay Fixed - I’ve moved emails to sendgrid so now everyone should reliably get their email notifications and daily digests.
Recruiting Development Volunteers
I’m looking for volunteers who can contribute work on forum plugins, data analysis work or just general development related tasks. The first task at hand is creating a forum plugin for Discourse that parses topic titles for ticker symbols and renders a TradingView chart with it below the body of the post. Discourse plugins are unfortunately written in Ruby. – If you’re experienced in data analysis, coding, etc. and are wanting to help out, please comment here with your skillset and experience so I can add you to the Dev group on discord. If you are currently in ATL’s homework help thread and think that is the real dev group, I regret to inform you that you’ve been bamboozled by an adorable little asian man.
Looking Forward
I’m really excited for where this community is headed. We’ve got so many incredible trade ideas being researched in this forum that even I’ve stopped feeling the need to browse Reddit (and I fucking love shitposting on Reddit). This forum was just the first step in creating value for our community and I have several ideas in the works to increase that value even further while sustaining the growth and quality of our community.
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Community Invites - I like the exclusivity of our community. We’re going to continue to periodically open the doors and allow a limited number of new members to join. I’m going to personally reach out to “analysts” on Reddit and Twitter that I find have solid research and invite them to join us here. If you have any personal favorites, don’t hesitate to suggest them in the comments or reach out to them yourselves. While general invites are limited, I definitely think we should always continue to add established talent as I’m sure a good bit of them would enjoy a better venue for their analysis than the cesspool that is Reddit.
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Trade Ideas Scanner Stream - I briefly had a stream of “Trade Ideas” scanners running in the discord before the influx. We found a lot of value in it and I’d like to bring it back but with a more permanent setup than streaming off my home server (since my bandwidth is thin as the profit margins on OYST calls.) The stream will use the same set of scanners as before and the community can contribute scanners they’d like added to it as well.
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ORTEX integration - I think providing the community increased access to ORTEX data on various tickers would be supremely beneficial and has been one of the most requested functions. We’ll likely have to implement this ourselves, but would be a solid addition the pipeline.
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Increased Education Content - I’m working on some content to educate the community on my personal trading strategies and theories as well as to disseminate more of the knowledge we’ve gained over the last year of trying to better understand “squeezes” in hopes of further empowering this community to generate it’s own signals.
I want this to be the best trading community in existence and I’m running hard at making that a reality. With that said, what I need from the community is help. If you haven’t become a Patron and have the ability to, it’s the easiest way to support what we’re doing here. You can do so at: https://www.patreon.com/AscendedTrading – As we grow and this community becomes more and more time consuming for the myself and the administration, having the costs of the tools and benefits provided crowdsourced will definitely help preserve dedication because at some point, expenditures of both time and money become “too much”.
I’m excited for where we are and where we’re going. Will have more soon.
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