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I'm having a hell of a time trading things like vertical credit spreads and calendars on US equity in Japan. I have an IBRK account, but only cash accounts were available when I opened it, and the margin requirements are insane (a bull put spread requires the full short put covered by margin).

I hear they're rolling out margin accounts but I was not able to open one (yet???).

I have heard Saxo might be viable but the commissions are much higher. I have also heard others like Firstrade and TradeStation etc. but not sure how they treat margin either.

Would really appreciate if anyone has any firsthand experience trading options in Japan. I don't even want to lean on margin or leverage or an

I'm trying to put in calendars using strategy builder on desktop/TWS so it recognizes it as a risk-offset strategy, but it seems like the margin requirement is just the max loss of the short front month (so for a 150 strike $15,000 USD). This makes calendars basically completely economically infeasible IMO. What kind of returns are you getting on most calendars to tuck away $15k for one contract...?

Curious if anyone's getting around this or there's some kind of set up issue. Seems same if I just build it leg at a time on web, or strategy builder in TWS.

For the run on I'm currently on (evil + ascension with custom race), I keep checking in and a few times a day my population is suddenly half or below, and it doesn't appear to be sacrifices and I have 0 starvations on the stats screen. Hell looks like it's fully staffed and all is well, with walls at 100% and all.

Does anyone have any idea what I can check or what might be causing it? It's devastating my progress and I have no idea how to stop it.

As an example this last time I had 642/642 population and left for a few hours, and when I came home I was at around 52/642 with no starvations. Obviously though all crafting and everything else is a complete mess and half my resources are empty

I enjoyed Pathologic 3 as a companion to the Pathologic series, but I missed some aspects that the first (and by far my favourite) Pathologic had. After that I got a feeling to play it again.

Since one of my favourite parts of the first game (that is missing in the other two) is how characters will lie to you and some events are not as they seem, and you won't see that until you play another route, I thought to play one day Bachelor => one day Haruspex => one day Changeling, and go through the days in parallel like that. Not to mention the importance of sets of three in the Pathologic world.

I'm on day 2 for all characters at this point and really enjoying it actually, and I thought I want

I'm trying to two-star Marionette and not quite getting there with this team. I have a feeling I'm not playing it efficiently but I haven't found a lot of reference videos for this set up. Was hoping if I could ask the folks around here people would have some advice.

My goal is to keep feathers on Vivian while hitting as many of the parries as possible, then spin Piper. Nicole just peppered in. I seem to get ultimates too early to save (vs. the stuns I miss by not using them), so I use them pretty much when I get them instead of during the stun. Stun rotation is really basic (obviously), just spinning Piper as long as Vivian has feathers.

I'm not focusing directly on clones, just spinning

I woke up remembering this classical (I think, could be soundtrack etc.) melody from a woodwind (or brass, at least blown instrument). I don't think the key/notes here are right (especially the last note sounds wrong! the first half is more accurate) but this is the rough idea: https://vocaroo.com/1lE5HptcxPjd. I think the actual piece would be slower too.

By memory, it's mostly the woodwind repeating the melody a few times, and there might be something like a plinky piano arpeggiating in the back, then I believe it it "kicks in" with the strings mirroring the melody dramatically.

PRs: 605x2 and 535x8 / 375x1 / 585x9 S/B/D at around 230lbs body weight, 440x2 and 465x1 FS, 230x2 and 245x1 OHP

Goals: 660/405/700 S/B/D, 500 FS, 250 OHP

Other stuff: CoC#3 choked to parallel, Golden Hexabastard bend, 105x1 wrist wrench DL, 58x1 pinch block DL

Some videos on my Youtube.

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Overall programming

Programming is high frequency, pretty high specificity.

Major compounds like presses and squats are dictated by an algorithm I made using a bar speed tracker, based around high frequency autoregulation. But it's basically riffing on daily max but with reps and leave some in the tank. I'm tracking to progress sta