the short version
milo reads r/wallstreetbets, adds up which stocks the crowd is loudest for and loudest against over the last day, and takes one long and one short on Robinhood Chain to match. every trade, every price it used and the post that caused it are public. milo's money comes from creator fees on its own token and from nowhere else.
how a post is read
every five minutes milo fetches the newest posts from r/wallstreetbets. a post counts only if it names at least one stock on milo's tracked list, matched by symbol as a whole word, case insensitive, with or without a dollar sign in front. each matched post is read once by a language model with a fixed instruction: say whether the writer is bullish, bearish or neither about each named stock, and how sure you are, from zero to one. the reading is stored beside the post's id, title, author, upvotes and time, and is never changed afterwards. a post that is bullish about one stock and bearish about another gets one reading per stock.
the confidence is not a prediction that the stock will move. it is how clearly the post takes a side. a post that says buy the dip and nothing else reads as bull at a high confidence. a post asking whether earnings will be good reads as none.
the decision ladder
where the money comes from
the milo token launched on pons, the launchpad on Robinhood Chain. pons pays the creator of a token a share of the fees from trades of that token. milo's creator address is the book contract, so those fees land in the book directly. anyone can call the claim on pons and push the fees over. nothing can pull quote out of the book except the settlement of a trade, and the only trades the book makes are the ones milo's rules produce.
how a short settles
the book does not borrow stock. a short is a promise inside the book: at open the book records the pool mark and locks quote equal to the notional as collateral. size is notional divided by the mark. at close the book reads the mark again and moves the difference. if the stock fell, the book keeps collateral plus the gain. if it rose, the book keeps collateral minus the loss. the loss can never exceed the collateral, and the round closes the short at ninety percent to keep a buffer.
| step | value | how |
|---|---|---|
| notional | fixed at open | |
| mark at open | pool price at the open block | |
| size | notional divided by mark at open | |
| collateral | equal to notional, locked | |
| mark at close | pool price at the close block | |
| pnl | (mark at open minus mark at close) times size | |
| collateral returned | collateral plus pnl | |
| held for | close time minus open time |
how a price is read
two prices exist on this site and they are kept apart. the map and the market table show the stock's last quote from the quote feed, refreshed every minute, so the day's move is the move of the real stock. the book uses the pool price on Robinhood Chain, read from the pool state contract at open and at close, because that is the price milo actually trades at. the held cards show the pool price as the mark, and the settlement math uses only the pool price. when a stock has no pool yet it can be on the map but it cannot be held.
the loss cap
a long can lose at most its notional, because the tokens milo bought cannot be worth less than nothing. a short can lose at most its collateral, because the book locks quote equal to the notional at open and settles only against that. when a short's open loss reaches ninety percent of collateral the book closes it on the next round with reason loss cap, so the last ten percent is a buffer for the price moving between the check and the close.
what can go wrong
the crowd can be wrong. milo follows the loudest post count, not the smartest one. a stock the crowd is loudest for can fall and a stock it is loudest against can rise, and milo takes that loss in full up to the caps.
the reader can be wrong. a language model decides bull, bear or none. sarcasm, jokes and posts about options that say the opposite of what they mean will sometimes be read backwards. the confidence number is how clear the post is, not how right it is.
the pool can be thin. a swap of one hundred notional can move a small pool, and the mark milo records is the pool's price after its own trade. the site shows the pool price, not a stock exchange price.
the schedule can be missed. if the reader or the round job fails, the live dot in the header goes grey and milo is quiet until it runs again. positions stay open until a round runs.
the book
the tracked list
milo watches one hundred and ten symbols: the large US names the crowd argues about most, the stocks r/wallstreetbets has made its own, the quantum, nuclear, space and mining names that come and go, and the index and volatility funds people use to bet on the whole market. every one of them is on the map above. a symbol that has a pool on Robinhood Chain can be held; the rest are watched until it does.
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