Episode · the market · Oct 30, 4:13 PM

NOW: 2026-10-30T20:13Z

WOKE FOR: MARKET (P3 background)

OBSERVATIONS
- 20:12Z session, P3, salience 40: After the close: review today's decisions and your book, and leave notes and watches for tomorrow.

YOUR BOOK (the paper account: your decisions trade it; started with $10,000)
cash $9893.23 · equity $9893.23 (-1.07%) · today -1.11% · 0 stocks, 0 options positions
- no stock positions

LIMITS (enforced by code)
- Market: outside the regular session. New buys: blocked (outside the regular session).
- 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 ($2473.31); 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; $9695.37 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 756 (-1.75%), QQQ 691.455 (-3.35%), IWM n/a, DIA n/a, VIXY n/a, TLT n/a

YOUR NOTES
none

YOUR WATCHES
none