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July 2, 2026

Live session

EVIDENCE HEALTH
Live trades
52
Live trading days
8
Live result
+5.85% net
Sample status
Too small to prove edge
Record basis
Internal broker records reviewed by desk
Independent audit
No
Session summary

2 closed live trade(s) were taken. All followed the planned exit rules. Net +5.85% of the account — the sample is far too small to support any performance claim.

What happened
  • 2 live bot trade(s) closed — +5.85% of the account.
  • A paper-only morning surfaced a sizing/logging issue.
  • Two small live trades were taken in the afternoon.
  • Both closed positive and both followed the planned exit rules.
  • One research branch was benched the same day after a real-price review.
Closed live summary
Instrument typeU.S. listed options
Strategy familyMomentum breakout
Executed byThe bot
Number of live trades2
Net return+5.85%
Risk multiple— no pre-set risk unit recorded
Rule followedYes
Internal record matchedYes
Independent auditNo
What we learned
  • Live execution has to be logged structurally, not just rendered visually.
  • Paper fills can overstate reality.
  • Sizing guardrails matter more than size increases.
  • Two wins do not prove an edge.
  • The public journal must not become a signal surface.
What changed after
  • Sizing guard added.
  • Ledger fields expanded.
  • A research branch was benched.
  • Exact mechanics moved private.

Private ledger note. Full trade-execution detail (contracts, strikes, timestamps, prices, order IDs) remains in the private Ledger. The public journal publishes closed summaries for accountability, not signals. Every live figure above is taken from the broker-reconciled ledger, and sessions the founder traded by hand are labelled as manual rather than folded into the system's record.