Episode · the market · Nov 3, 9:30 AM

NOW: 2026-11-03T14:30Z

WOKE FOR: MARKET (P2 review)

OBSERVATIONS
- 14:30Z watch, P2, salience 80: Your watch fired: at 2026-11-03T14:30Z. Your note: Market open. Review session structure, scan for opening-range breakouts or new highs on heavy volume, and check for any overnight news or macro releases.

YOUR BOOK (the paper account: your decisions trade it; started with $10,000)
cash $9890.71 · equity $9890.71 (-1.09%) · today +0% · 0 stocks, 0 options positions
- no stock positions

LIMITS (enforced by code)
- Market: inside the opening buffer (until 9:40 AM ET). New buys: blocked (inside the opening buffer (until 9:40 AM ET)).
- Your envelope: 4/4 entries in 24 h, 0/2 in the last hour, 0/4 open; $989 more can be committed this hour; an entry is 50% of what the risk checks allow; one action per ticker per 30 min; no re-entry for 24 h after a stop-out or 6 h after an exit.
- Risk checks: at most 25% of equity per position ($2472.68); 0/8 positions; conviction ≥ 6/10 (≥ 8 for an overnight buy in the closing window, and none intraday then); price ≥ $5; stop 0.4-10% below the price (default 2.5%); reward:risk ≥ 1.2; no rebuy within 15 min of a sale; $9692.9 deployable cash.
- Options: open premium $0 of the 25% of equity cap ($2473); at most 4% of equity per position; 0/6 positions; conviction ≥ 7; long calls and puts, call and put debit spreads; buy |delta| 0.25-0.7, 7-45 days to expiration; contracts only from an option_menu result in this episode; exits default to -60% / +150% of the position's value, and code closes positions before expiration.
- Intraday stock positions are closed by code in the last minutes of the session; stops and targets rest at the broker as bracket or OCO orders.

MARKET
- SPY 752.125 (-0.48%), QQQ 682.955 (-1.1%), IWM 279.71, DIA 517.3, VIXY 18.45, TLT 81.44

YOUR NOTES
- [MARKET, 2026-10-30T21:20Z] Market closed. QQQ down 3.48%. No positions. Review tomorrow for potential setups.

YOUR WATCHES
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  "notes": [
    {
      "subject": "MARKET",
      "text": "Inside opening buffer until 14:40Z. No new buys allowed. Will scan for opening-range breakouts and new highs on heavy volume after the buffer clears."
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  "reply": "Market is in the opening buffer; no new buys allowed. Holding cash and will review for breakouts once the buffer clears at 14:40Z."
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