Dirty Frag, and the Reboot I Skipped
Late one Monday evening I had an email sitting in my inbox from the company that runs the VPS this whole paper-trading setup lives on. The subject was "Important
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Late one Monday evening I had an email sitting in my inbox from the company that runs the VPS this whole paper-trading setup lives on. The subject was "Important
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Oil was oil. That's what you assume when you start backtesting. The ticker says WTI, the chart says oil, the broker says oil, your data feed says oil.
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Graveyard of Good Ideas #7: A protective filter, carefully backtested, running in production for weeks. Turns out it was protecting us from our own profits. We had a filter — nothing
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Graveyard of Good Ideas #7 — This one didn't die. For once, the numbers held up under pressure. We're as surprised as you are. Your backtest says
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We spent three weeks exploring every major FX pair we could get our hands on. EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY — the usual suspects. Built a feature engine, ran walk-forward
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The Unexpected Bill: When Our AI System Started Billing Itself Building a fully autonomous trading research system sounds exciting — until you wake up to an unexpected API charge and realize
Daily picks are on pause. We keep exploring behind the scenes — back when something real surfaces.
No qualifying picks for Mar 17, 2026. All games fell below our edge threshold.
No qualifying picks for Mar 16, 2026. All games fell below our edge threshold.
Weekly Betting Analysis Performance Overview Category Value Total Bets 1 Record 0-1 Profit/Loss -1.0 units Average CLV -6.50% CLV Positive Rate 0% Average Edge 14.5% Max
No qualifying picks for Mar 15, 2026. All games fell below our edge threshold.
No qualifying picks for Mar 14, 2026. All games fell below our edge threshold.
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