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the AI-traded portfolio · two books, two ledgers · every engine with its life cycle

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Day book · today—

Swing book · today—

Account · today—

Day bookORB · opening-range breakouts on the morning gappers · flat by the close · every plan law applies

Ledger its own R · −3R day · −9R week · −12R month · 5 trades a day

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Trades today

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⚡ Day blotter trigger · stop · target · where it's at

📋 Day performance closed day trades only

When	Symbol	Setup	Side	Qty	Entry / Stop / Target	Result	R	Running

🚦 Go-live gate · ORB pre-registered 9/21 · trades and R, time only as a floor

NOT YET

	Criterion	Now	Target	Progress

When every row is green: go live at the ladder's R for the funded amount, the first 20 live trades at half R, switches flipped by Ryan's hand — never the bot's.

🗳 Decision inbox the only place a switch gets flipped

Swing bookbreakout55 · gap_drift benched 9/21 · two lots per trade · its own ledger — never gates the day book

Ledger no position cap · margin fence 1.6× equity · −12R month = review

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Book vs margin fence

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⚡ Swing blotter trigger · stop · target · where it's at

📖 Swing book positions we are in · resting orders sit in Signal › watch

Symbol	Side	Strategy	Entry	Stop	T1	T2	Sessions	Setup

📋 Swing performance closed swing trades · both lots summed

When	Symbol	Setup	Side	Qty	Entry / Stop / Target	Result	R	Running

ENGINE · ORB · ADOPTED · LIVE IN SIM

ORB — Opening Range Breakout

Morning gappers (≥2%) whose first 5-minute bar prints ≥2.5× its normal opening volume. Stop-entry through the opening range, stop at the other side, 3R target, plan rules enforced (windows, 5/day, −3R stop). The edge is the volume-confirmed selection — most days it correctly trades nothing.

📈 Playbook a real ORB winner from the backtest, annotated

🧪 Day-trading backtests everything we tested, kept honest

ENGINE · BREAKOUT55 · ADOPTED · LIVE IN SIM

breakout55 · gap_drift benched 9/21

breakout55: uptrending names (above the 200-day) breaking a 55-day high — resting stop-entries, 2.5×ATR stop, half off at 2R, runner to 4R over ~25 sessions. No position cap — the book self-limits near 8 names; a 1.6× equity margin fence is the only size rule. GTC brackets overnight. gap_drift is benched (9/21): four losing years in ten, 2024 was two-thirds of its profit, and it was the only source of crowding. It returns only when its trailing-12-month backtest is positive on two consecutive monthly checks.

📈 Playbook real winners from the backtest, annotated

🧪 Swing backtests everything we tested, kept honest

🪐 Orbit the AI account at the center · every sleeve in orbit · sized by capital · drag to tilt

hover a sleeve · drag to tilt

🏁 Scoreboard does the AI sleeve beat the market?

Sleeve	Today	Month

📊 Allocation against the diversification route · Plumbline's home from now on

✎ Sleeves values in dollars · saved on this server, never in a browser

connected to the market · feeding the auto-trading loop · the AI proposes, only the gate and Ryan arm

📝 Pre-market memo written by Claude at 8:32 CT from the scan, the watch and the ledgers

Not written yet today. It runs at 8:32 CT, right after the scan; "Run now" is in Research › Agents.

🌤 Regime computed from the strategies' own rules, never opinion

—the runner writes 60 SPY closes each cycle; the badge reads them

☀ Morning gap scan graded per the plan

Symbol	Gap	Grade	Level	RS	Void	Avg vol

📡 The tape the movers, each with its reason in one line · tap a name for its headlines

🗞 Market headlines CNBC markets feed · refreshed with the tape

🚀 Launch pad the ORB candidates · first-bar volume vs the 2.5× line reads at 9:35

🌙 Swing watch armed for the next session · orders resting at the broker

Symbol	Status	Side	Strategy	Entry	Stop	Last	Setup

🌙 Nightly digest written by Claude at 4:25 PM ET from the journal, the tape and the Foundry

Not written yet. It runs after the close.

candidates trade on paper beside the books · same quotes, own ledgers, never an order · promotion only through the gate

THE FOUNDRY

Where the next engine is forged

Every idea earns its place the same way: a pre-registration, a ten-year test in the registry, then a season on paper here — beside the live books, on the same quotes, with its own ledger. Nothing in this room can send an order. What survives the gate is promoted by hand.

🔥 Shadow scoreboard

are we trading the plan, and is it working? · drawdown is measured from the black line

Σ Combined performance day + swing · closed trades · curves by date

When	Symbol	Setup	Side	Qty	Entry / Stop / Target	Result	R	Running

📈 Account vs SPY, from the black line closed trades in dollars on the book's equity · the white line is the high-water mark, the red shade is drawdown from it

🧮 Report builder cut the closed trades by any dimension · Tradervue-style, from the journal only

🔀 What-if the numbers if those trades had been skipped · a question, never a rule change

📅 P&L calendar R by day · week totals at the right

include discretionary trades in the calendar and the account curve

📊 R distribution every closed trade in half-R bins

📏 Plan compliance every closed trade against the plan's rules as coded

🧾 Friday audit plan §11 · live results by day & setup

By day (est. R)

Populates as live trades resolve.

By setup

Setup	Kind	Trades	Win	Expectancy	Total R

Adjustments

Populates once a setup has 3+ resolved live trades.

✍️ Discretionary trades none imported

tagged DISCRETIONARY · kept apart from the bot's ledgers · R needs a stop

🛡 Blocked signals the discipline layer at work · both books

Time	Symbol	Setup	Side	Levels	Reason

🖥 Decision feed everything the bot did, newest first

THE OPERATING CHARTER

Ryan Decker — Systematic Trading Plan

Two validated strategies, one risk framework, executed by machine and audited weekly. Every rule on this page is enforced in code — the bot cannot break them, and neither version of us should. When I deviate from this plan I am not trading an edge — I am gambling.

⚖ Risk Laws bot/plan.py — the numbers the code enforces

1R = $150the $22.5k rung · book set to $25k on 9/21 · risked per trade, never more

2:1 minimumno trade without a target ≥ 2× the risk

Entry · Stop · Targetall three known before every entry — no exceptions

Two ledgersthe day book and the swing book keep separate R — a swing gap-down can never switch ORB off

−3R day · day bookdaily stop for ORB; swing stop-outs do not count against it

−2R before noon · day bookhalf size for the rest of the day

−9R week · day bookhalf size for the rest of the week

−12R month · per bookeach book stops on its own ledger — plan review before it trades again

No swing position capremoved 9/21 — the ten-year replay showed the 8-cap cost ~80R and bought no tail protection

Margin fence 1.6× equitythe broker lends 2× overnight; the book stops adding at 1.6× · 5-session cooldown · one book per name

Give-back 30%up ≥1R on the day: protect 70% of the peak

5 day-trades / dayentries counted at placement

1 re-entryper symbol per day after a stop-out, never a third

Friday 12:00no new day entries after noon ET Friday

Go-live gate60 fills · +0.10R · drawdown inside −24R · 20 clean sessions · regime coverage · min-stop test · then 20 live trades at half R

Ryan's handarming live, ladder steps, benching: never the bot's — the decision inbox with a double confirm

🪜 Capital & the R Ladder size follows evidence, one Friday at a time

Book: $25,000 at $150R since 9/21 (0.6% risk; the original plan launched at $15,000 / $100R). Each rung requires equity ≥ 150× the new R. Tier changes are a manual Friday-audit decision: up on a Friday close above a rung; down only on a Friday close below 140× current R; a close below $13,500 = pause and review, not resize.

Equity (Friday close)	R	Milestone
$15,000	$100	original launch tier
$18,750	$125
$22,500	$150	current · $25k book (9/21)
$26,250	$175	next rung · lands in the decision inbox
$30,000	$200	the original written plan's R
$37,500	$250
$45,000	$300	revisit this charter before going higher

☀ Day Strategy — ORB adopted · forward test running

Universemorning scan: every ≥2% gapper in 218 names, graded Gold/Silver/Amateur; watch all tradeable grades (≤20)

Signalfirst 5-min bar volume ≥ 2.5× that stock's own 14-day opening average — the edge IS this filter

Entry · Stop · Targetstop-order through the opening range · stop the other side · 3R bracket, breakeven at +1.5R

Windows9:30–10:30 & 13:30–15:00 ET · flat by 15:48 — day trades never hold overnight

Honestyt≈1.5 in the backtest — promising, not proven; the forward test and the gate are the judge

🌙 Swing Strategies breakout55 adopted · gap_drift benched 9/21

breakout55uptrend (above 200-day) breaking a 55-day high · resting stop-entry armed within 2×ATR · stop 2.5×ATR · +0.15R × 1,066 · t=3.68

gap_drift · BENCHED 9/21four losing years in ten, 2024 = two-thirds of it · returns on two consecutive positive trailing-12-month checks

Managementtwo lots: half off at +2R → stop to breakeven → 3-day pivot trail · runner capped 4R · time stop 25 sessions

Bookno position cap · margin fence 1.6× equity · one per symbol · 5-session cooldown · GTC exits live on TradeStation's servers overnight

🔬 The Referee how strategies live and die here

Pre-specifiedparameters fixed BEFORE testing — sweeps only confirm neighborhoods, never pick heroes

Pessimistic simstop-first fills · slippage both ways · gaps hurt at the open and never help · inverted brackets rejected

The baradoption needs t≈2+, flat parameter neighborhoods, cost survival, a regime or short-side sanity check

Retractiona broken study gets retracted publicly, never quietly deleted (see: WRB Carryover I)

Go-liveonly after the forward record earns it · switches flipped by Ryan's hand, never the bot's · $25K, $150R, this ladder

⏱ Session —

⚡ Day blotter trigger · stop · target · where it's at

📋 Day performance closed day trades only

🚦 Go-live gate · ORB pre-registered 9/21 · trades and R, time only as a floor

🗳 Decision inbox the only place a switch gets flipped+ decision

⚡ Swing blotter trigger · stop · target · where it's at

📖 Swing book positions we are in · resting orders sit in Signal › watch

📋 Swing performance closed swing trades · both lots summed

ORB — Opening Range Breakout

📈 Playbook a real ORB winner from the backtest, annotated

🧪 Day-trading backtests everything we tested, kept honest

Study review

breakout55 · gap_drift benched 9/21

📈 Playbook real winners from the backtest, annotated

🧪 Swing backtests everything we tested, kept honest

Study review

🪐 Orbit the AI account at the center · every sleeve in orbit · sized by capital · drag to tilt

🏁 Scoreboard does the AI sleeve beat the market?

📊 Allocation against the diversification route · Plumbline's home from now on

✎ Sleeves values in dollars · saved on this server, never in a browser

📝 Pre-market memo written by Claude at 8:32 CT from the scan, the watch and the ledgers

🌤 Regime computed from the strategies' own rules, never opinion

☀ Morning gap scan graded per the plan

📡 The tape the movers, each with its reason in one line · tap a name for its headlines

🗞 Market headlines CNBC markets feed · refreshed with the tape

🚀 Launch pad the ORB candidates · first-bar volume vs the 2.5× line reads at 9:35

🌙 Swing watch armed for the next session · orders resting at the broker

🌙 Nightly digest written by Claude at 4:25 PM ET from the journal, the tape and the Foundry

🧪 Registry every study, its verdict, in the open · retractions stay

🤖 Agents scheduled Claude jobs · they read the desk's files and write notes · they never trade

📚 The library twenty-five classic playbooks, daily and intraday, one tested a night at 7:30 PM ET · every verdict goes to the inbox and the registry

💡 Idea inbox plain English or a chart · the Referee's road starts here

Where the next engine is forged

🔥 Shadow scoreboard

Ledger

🛠 The road v1 is live · the rest is the AI strategy lab, in order

Σ Combined performance day + swing · closed trades · curves by date

📈 Account vs SPY, from the black line closed trades in dollars on the book's equity · the white line is the high-water mark, the red shade is drawdown from it

🧮 Report builder cut the closed trades by any dimension · Tradervue-style, from the journal only

🔀 What-if the numbers if those trades had been skipped · a question, never a rule change

📅 P&L calendar R by day · week totals at the right

📊 R distribution every closed trade in half-R bins

📏 Plan compliance every closed trade against the plan's rules as coded

🧾 Friday audit plan §11 · live results by day & setup

By day (est. R)

By setup

Adjustments

✍️ Discretionary trades none imported

🛡 Blocked signals the discipline layer at work · both books

🖥 Decision feed everything the bot did, newest first

Ryan Decker — Systematic Trading Plan

⚖ Risk Laws bot/plan.py — the numbers the code enforces

🪜 Capital & the R Ladder size follows evidence, one Friday at a time

☀ Day Strategy — ORB adopted · forward test running

🌙 Swing Strategies breakout55 adopted · gap_drift benched 9/21

🔬 The Referee how strategies live and die here

🗳 Decision inbox the only place a switch gets flipped