Week one: the record begins

What happened

The flagship strategy began trading on September 1st through a live broker connection in paper mode: real market data, real order routing, simulated cash. Five discount limit orders filled across the week; three positions have already completed their cycle and exited by rule. Every fill, stop and exit was placed automatically, without a human touching an order.

One week is not evidence of an edge. It is evidence of machinery: orders fill where the engine said they would, protective stops appear when positions open, and the daily reconciliation between the live system and the research engine has run clean all week. That is exactly what a first week is for.

The chain is live

On September 4th the public hash chain sealed its genesis entry, committing to the record as it stood: equity, day count, and a fingerprint of the full intraday series. From here, each day's snapshot chains to the last. Anyone can recompute the chain on the verify page; it takes a few seconds and involves no trust in this site.

Honest footnotes

Paper fills are slightly kinder than live fills: simulated orders do not compete for liquidity. The strategy graduates to real capital only after a multi-week checklist completes, and that transition will be visible in this record, not smoothed over.

Backtested expectations for this strategy remain what they were: roughly 30 percent annualized over a 15-year survivorship-corrected test with a profit factor near 2, and drawdowns that can reach 25%. Nothing about one good week changes any of those numbers.