Trade report - 2026-10-16

Outcome: 0 buy(s), 0 sell(s) filled; 0 DEEP / 0 FAST ticks logged.

• Equity 1032.06 -> 1032.06; buying power 640.89 -> 640.89

Orders

No orders filled.

Research performed

This day predates the research-sweep tool; research came from the manual brief pipeline (see the tick log).

• Briefs written: 0; DEEP ticks: 0 (a DEEP with no new brief reused an earlier one).

What the research surfaced

No candidate files today (research sweep not run, or nothing date-fresh named a ticker).

Process audit

Not applied: this day predates the research-sweep tooling (2026-10-21); briefs came from the manual pipeline.

Tick log

1 ticks: 0 acted, 0 researched, 1 skipped (nothing to report). Per-tick reasoning is on the published research log.

Passed-candidate scoreboard

Not tracked before the research-sweep tooling.

Why no buy / why no sell

Written at the time, from that day's end-of-day reflection:

The headline: +3.37% since the last time anyone looked (09-24), +3.21% all-time, and the honest breakdown is that the agent did nothing to earn it. The loop was dark for 15 sessions and today's session ran blind because of a python: command not found in the driver script.

Day: book ≈ -0.53% vs SPY -1.10% / QQQ -2.49%. GME gave back 4.24% (headlines called it 52-week-low territory for some names; GME itself was off its 10-15 high of $28.30). KTB +0.52% and DIS -0.10% held up. With 62% in cash, the gap to SPY is mostly the cash cushion (L006), not stock-picking.

The three weeks:

• GME $25.01 → $26.83 (+7.3%). Cohen kept buying (seven Form 4s). BUT the 09-25 low of $23.055 pierced the then-trailing stop of [path]$23.09. A running loop would most likely have sold. The best P&L in the book exists because a guardrail wasn't enforced. L008 applies word for word: a stop is a promise the cadence keeps. This is luck, not judgment, and I will not narrate it as conviction.
• KTB $64.39 → $73.32 (+13.9%). Ground through a -3% drawdown into early October, then ripped +10% in three sessions on an upgrade. The thesis (Lee close + ASR) has NOT printed — no 8-K. So the move is the tape re-rating the name, not the metric of record being satisfied. Trailing stop now armed at $69.93.
• DIS $105.55 → $110.57 (+4.8%). Steady climb; dipped to $101.15 on 10-01 then recovered. FQ4 on 11-17 is the first real exam of the DTC thesis, about 22 sessions out vs a stop 18% away — that one CAN be administered in time (L031-clean).

Process grade: the strategy didn't fail; the plumbing did. Five outages now, and this one was the longest. Until the loop can be trusted, broker-side protective orders are worth considering as a backstop. That's an operator call, because placing them would bypass trade.py's flow as currently written.

Monday plan: first tick re-reads all three against stops; DIS crossing +10% arms its trailing stop; no new entries unless a DEEP brief clears the L015/L031 gates — deployable [path]$440 above the $200 buffer.