🎯🙌 You found your own way. This made my day. It is extremely satisfying to see a person, especially a younger person, *apply* everything that I've imparted onto them after many hours of deep conversation. On edge: The edge isn't in the tool or the tactic, rather, the edge is in executing (at a professional level) with the appropriate tool; which is pointed at a basket of curated symbol(s). Your best forecasting decisions, be it for volatility, momo or carry, are made at the instrument level. IE., the decision about *what* you trade, calibrated to your forecast, is far more important than discipline, AI, ML, or any other sophisticated technique. E.g., Your execution can be stellar, but if you're trying to force lower realized vol (via shorting iron condors, strangles, straddles) onto the SPX when its aggressively bid up practically everyday, you're being stubborn and it will cost you money over the long run. There are plenty of single stocks that currently have strongly +VRPs where the trader is being adequately compensated for the risk assumed. Go find those and ignore the index if it doesn't meet your criteria.