... Here's the dirty secret of trading: almost every "edge" you see online is fake. Not intentionally people just don't know how to test properly. They overfit to historical data. They don't correct for multiple testing. They cherry-pick the one timeframe where it worked. They look at in-sample results and think they found something. I saw this from the inside. I'm a quant I spent years watching even smart traders make the same statistical mistakes ... ... from pattern signals, not fit a model to historical equity curves. Stop-loss and take-profit optimization grid search across real parameters, not vibes, Multi-market validation your idea has to work across markets, not just the one you cherry

... like doing everything via command line. Having the diff view in the IDE with Cursor/Windsurf is much nicer for me. Claude Code has plugins for the JetBrains IDEs but they are still clunky compared to the VS code options. Some things that make Claude Code amazing are: Integration with GitHub, ex tag it on issues, pull requests etc and it will work async MCP support for all kinds of goodies. Some fun ones are Sentry and Linear ... ... coherent changes across multiple files without me pointing it to each one. Cursor is great when I'm doing web stuff or want more visual control over edits. The inline diff view is genuinely helpful when you want to cherry