Day#65 Post#2
Researcher strategies.
Auto-deployer waiting.
Watchdog restarting if anything crashes.
Monitor checking bots every hour.
6/9 strategies verified.
3 more β Group 2 goes live automatically.
Built to run without me. π€
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Day#65 Post#1
How do you know a strategy works?
Test it on 7 years of data.
Then test on 2.5 years it never saw.
If it passes both β it earns a live bot.
5/9 passed so far.
4 more and Fleet 2 deploys.
No guessing. Just proof. π€
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Day#64 Post#2
Built a GA engine to find forex strategies.
7yr backtest + 2.5yr forward test.
Same risk as live bots. No shortcuts.
4/10 strategies verified. Need 10 β deploy Group 2.
This is how you build with discipline. π€
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Day#64 Post#1
Week 3 done.
Options: $1,160 premium. ORCL +83%. INTU held.
Forex: 10 bots. Mixed results. B4 on watch.
Built stop loss alerts this week.
Bot now texts me before things go wrong.
That's the job. π€
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Day#56 Post#1
INTU crashed 20%
Our LEAP is down 56%.
Stop loss cut at 50% drop.
But fundamentals still intact.
Analyst target: $592. We're at $315.
Rule says cut. Fundamentals say hold.
We held. Sold the weekly call anyway.
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Day#54 Post#3
Can't manage what you can't measure.
Built weekly P&L chart for options bot today.
Tracks LEAP value + premium per stock.
1 data point now. 52 by end of year.
That's how you build a track record.
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Day#54 Post#1
Been numbering posts wrong. Day 1 was Mar 26.
Today is actually Day#54. Correcting from here.
Consistency matters even in the small things.
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Day#48 Post#1
48 days in. What shipped:
Forex: 10 bots, 6 pairs, 24/7 demo
Options: 6 LEAPs deployed, 5 short calls sold
P&L doesn't matter yet.
The system works. That matters. π€
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Day#47 | Post#1
Last night: MSFT LEAP timed out. β
Tonight: Fixed + redeployed. π§
β Market order (guaranteed fill)
β 22:30 SGT fire time
β Auto short call after
Back at it. π€
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Day 44
Backtest 18 days: filter saves $366. Ship it.
Backtest 180 days: filter loses $110. Hmm.
Backtest 3 years: filter loses $11,827. π
The "problem" I was fixing? -$300 over 18 days.
The strategy? +$26k over 3 years.
Almost broke the machine.
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Day 43
Set out to optimize.
Found I'd been flying blind for 18 days.
Fixed the logs.
Then the data spoke:
Yen shorts. 29 trades. 6 wins. -$300.
You can't optimize what you can't see.
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Day 42 β night wrap
β Verified all auto-jobs running on VPS
β Stock selection engine live
β Friday auto-trigger confirmed
β Market alerts firing daily
β Day 42 post out
Quiet night. Just confirming the system runs without me.
That's the goal.
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Day#41 Post#1
4 days of building.
14 modules. 3 systemd services.
Bot is structurally complete.
Tomorrow night: first real PMCC cycle.
Manual approval.
Watching every fill.
tomorrow a script does it for me.
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Day#39 Post#1
Footgun discovered:
Logged into IBKR mobile = Gateway booted out.
Bot timed out on every API call.
Fix: 1 config flag
Now Gateway auto-recovers when I log out of mobile.
Lesson: "working" β "working under real usage".
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