A friend posted a photo of Woodstock from overhead as a demonstration of what 400,000 people look like. Its a huge number...hard to visualize.

I've been using citites.

For my friends back home, the day after my birthday (November 18) was the day a St Clair County's worth of people were dead. Imagine Belleville, O'Fallon, Fairview, and all the little farmtowns inbetween, empty.
Not even a month later (Dec 14th), you could have upgraded to the population center across the river; imagine the entire city of St. Louis, empty.

But, I've lived other places, and I know people from all over, many of whom have traveled quite a bit.
So, as we hit 400,000 Americans dead, lets put this in perspective.

Yesterday, it was the city of Arlington, 49th largest city in the US.

By the end of today, it will be Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tomorrow, it will be Tampa, Florida, instead.
By next week probably (at this rate), Oakland, then Minneapolis a few days later.

About two weeks from now Virgina Beach, followed by Colorado Springs, Long Beach, and Miami...theres a few more cities between Miami and the next milestone (500,000), but...
By mid-February (sometime around Valentine's Day) we will have enough people who have died to wipe out the city of Sacramento, the 36th largest city in America.

At some point, large numbers become abstractions for most of us.
Even for those of us that are used to looking at large numbers in data sets, there's a certain distancing that comes from the abstraction of a number so big we can't really wrap our minds around the significance of it. We need a way to ground ourselves with what it really means.
For me, its cities. A death isn't just the loss of a person, its the loss of their memories & knowledge. Its the loss of their love & energy towards whatever it is in life that was their passion. Death empties a home, puts a hole in a family, rips out threads from communities.

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12 TRADING SETUPS used by professional traders:🧵

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

Here's what you'll learn in this thread:

1. Capture Overnight Theta Decay
2. Trading Opening Range Breakouts
3. Reversal Trading Setups
4. Selling strangles and straddles in Bank Nifty
6. NR4 + IB
7. NR 21-Vwap Strategy

Let's dive in ↓

1/ STBT option Selling (Positional Setup):

The setup uses price action to sell options for overnight theta decay.

Check Bank Nifty at 3:15 everyday.

Sell directional credit spreads with capped


@jigspatel1988 2/ Selling Strangles in Bank Nifty based on Open Interest Data

Don't trade till 9:45 Am.

Identify the highest OI on puts and calls.

Check combined premium and put a stop on individual


@jigspatel1988 3/ Open Drive (Intraday)

This is an opening range breakout setup with a few conditions.

To be used when the market opens above yesterday's day high

or Below yesterday's day's

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