Episode · the market · Oct 29, 12:34 PM

NOW: 2026-10-29T16:34Z

WOKE FOR: MARKET (P2 review)

OBSERVATIONS
- 16:34Z session, P2, salience 50: The session is open and past its opening buffer: buys are allowed until the close at 4:00 PM ET.

YOUR BOOK (shadow; started with $10,000)
cash $10000.00 · equity $10000.00 (+0%) · today +0% · realized $0.00 · 0 open, 0 closed
- no open positions

LIMITS (enforced by code)
- Market: the regular session. New buys: allowed.
- Your envelope: 0/4 entries in 24 h, 0/2 in the last hour, 0/4 open; $1000 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 ($2500); 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; $9800 deployable cash.
- Intraday positions are closed by code in the last minutes of the session. Trades fill at the ask or bid plus 5 bps, commission-free. Options are traded only at level auto.

MARKET
- SPY 768.795 (-0.45%), QQQ 714.825 (-1.48%), IWM 284.25 (+1.05%), DIA 522.07 (-0.49%), VIXY 16.77, TLT 81.2598

YOUR NOTES
none

YOUR WATCHES
none

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  "reply": "Mid-session review: broad market is mixed with small caps (IWM) leading while tech (QQQ) lags. No specific setups or news triggered a trade, so I held cash and waited for clearer signals."
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