Didn’t want to keep taking up space in @HankPym’s Journal so I’ll be continuing this part of the convo here
I’m starting to set the stage for this using the new layout of Discord.
I talked about previously how I wanted everything to be revolved around “Catalysts”, or rather, a thread with a reason for a trade. Speaking candidly, I think it’ll be good for the community if we start to make things less revolved around scalping which I believe the current positions system is and more revolved around “thought out” trades.
For the last week we’ve been somewhat testing the idea of another type of thread, something that is broken out from the main meat of the forum and is more targeted as being a curated watchlist for the community. This idea took off pretty well and kind of hit a stride today with AVGO and then the Debt Ceiling thread:
The idea here is that we select news or something from TF and “create a thread” on the trading-floor channel that allows for the conversation to be continued and more importantly consolidated off TF while still making the conversation viewable like normal. You can see this in play this evening while TF is talking about random TF things, there is still a conversation happening related to trading from within Discord:
Now I’m not happy with the threads directly on the channel because I can’t slow-mode the thread itself without slowing TF and there are no tags so I’m going to be moving this to an actual forum channel I’ll replicate the “create a thread” functionality with an “App Command” similar to voting for a role change as well as a matching slash command to register a catalyst like you would a callout. I’ve got one created that’s being set up which currently has two tags, “Broad Catalyst” and “Intraday Catalyst”
So the idea here is to provide a way of keeping track of what we’re currently looking at vs the longer term due diligence that is hosted in the main forum. Positions should be taken from within these threads (in both catalysts and the main forum) as a shortcut of attaching a position to their content so that the thread is referenced in every callout like happens in the current watchlist functionality when it’s triggered from a thread:
This means that shorter vs longer term should be automatically indicated based on the type of thread the position is taken from:
- Catalysts → Short term (< 1 Week)
- Main Forum → Longer term (> 1 Week)
Where the position system has fallen short is that it’s almost always position first and explanation second whereas it’s truly meant to be the second step. There should be a thesis, or at least a reason stated that positions are taken off of and if one doesn’t exist I honestly don’t think the position is beneficial or should be followed.
When this is in practice it’ll provide us the opportunity to show all the positions someone has with links to detailed explanations and content specifically surrounding that position. So I can look at all of House’s plays for instance and see why he is specifically in each one which I think will further reinvigorate TF to be collaborative as we’re already starting to see again.
In addition to working with positions, these threads will be the place where we’ll start attaching events to build out the “calendar” I’ve talked about before. Naturally there are going to be some new commands and such to make this all work seamlessly and given that I’m focused on Discord dev above all else at the moment I’m excited to get those banged out.
Dashboard and Quick Views
So there are parts of this system that simply don’t work great from within Discord, for instance I can’t provide a chart that is scale-able. The initial reason I started branching out when I made the positions system to begin with was because of the limitations. For instance this feature which showed the totality of a position:
The issue is that past 25 updates I can’t show any more of it and because of the way Discord formats things it comes out fucking MASSIVE anyway. So while it does solve the “seeing everything” issue that @HankPym had pointed out, you get to a point where the information it provides isn’t enough fairly quickly as the play drags on.
So in order to fix this, I need to firstly fix the above command 
but secondly I need to create some faster, simpler views that can be opened from discord to expand the current functionality. For instance showing just that “full view chart” and then providing a link that opens a quick mobile-friendly view to view a real scrollable chart and the full history of the position.
So all this is to say that I agree, we need to make some changes to keep the building momentum we have in our revitalization efforts and I’m actively working on them.