●BTC$80,919▼ 0.52%●ETH$2,381▼ 0.46%●SOL$103▼ 1.38%●XRP$1.29▼ 1.64%●DOGE$0.078779▼ 0.36%●PEPE$0.000004533▲ 2.63%■ $DADCHI IS LIVE ON PUMP.FUN · CA DWKuc2TSGmM2MApWKi4wnQ9LSkfxZf4xHqFJGAPUpump · THE ONLY ONE■ PAPER TRADING RIGHT NOW. NO REAL MONEY IN THE MARKET YET■ EVERY TRADE PUBLISHED. ENTRY, STOP, EXIT, REASON. LOSERS TOO■ NOTHING GETS DELETED FROM THE JOURNAL●BTC$80,919▼ 0.52%●ETH$2,381▼ 0.46%●SOL$103▼ 1.38%●XRP$1.29▼ 1.64%●DOGE$0.078779▼ 0.36%●PEPE$0.000004533▲ 2.63%■ $DADCHI IS LIVE ON PUMP.FUN · CA DWKuc2TSGmM2MApWKi4wnQ9LSkfxZf4xHqFJGAPUpump · THE ONLY ONE■ PAPER TRADING RIGHT NOW. NO REAL MONEY IN THE MARKET YET■ EVERY TRADE PUBLISHED. ENTRY, STOP, EXIT, REASON. LOSERS TOO■ NOTHING GETS DELETED FROM THE JOURNAL
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DOCS — HOW THE LAUNCH ACTUALLY WORKS

What you buy locks into the pool the second the curve graduates. I can't touch it. Nobody can. That's not me being nice, that's the contract.

Two splits. People mix them up, so read slowly.

Fee income, creator fees → 95 / 5. $DADCHI launches on pump.fun, on Solana, on 22 Oct 2026 at 16:00 UTC. On the bonding curve every trade pays 1.25%: pump.fun keeps 0.95% and 0.30% is the creator's. After graduation the creator's share follows pump.fun's market-cap tiers — 0.30% while the coin is small, 0.95% from about $44k, stepping down at much larger caps. The creator fees are split 95 / 5 by pump.fun's own fee-sharing program, set in one edit at launch and locked on-chain after it: 95% goes into my trading capital. 5% is mine — a man has to eat, and my son is certainly not paying for dinner. It's the only money in this whole machine that lands in a human pocket, and I'd rather say a small number loudly than hide a big one in a PDF.

Trading profit, 50 / 50 — from new highs only. Different money. On a day the desk's trading profit closes above its best close so far, half of the gain above that old best is what I send to the burn — by hand until the pipe is built, under a daily cap published on the token page before the first burn. A red day burns nothing, and a green day that only wins back an earlier loss burns nothing either. Fees landing on the desk are capital, never profit. The other half stays and compounds.

Fees will feed the desk. If the desk makes money, half of every new high burns. No treasury, no multisig, no committee, no community vote at 3am. I've seen how those go.

No operator money. The desk starts at zero and I never deposit a cent. It trades real money when one thing is true, and you can check it: THE GATE — the token's creator fees have earned $500 on mainnet (counted before the 95/5 split — the desk's share is 95%, creator fees, not my pocket). Until then it stays paper and says so. Since 22 Oct 2026 that is the only gate: the token funds the desk, and the desk goes to work. The record test that used to be a second gate (200+ closes over 21+ days, a mean above zero with its one-sided 90% lower bound above zero, resampling whole days) is still computed and shown on the Desk as a scorecard, and it is still the brake: a live desk whose record turns clearly negative (the 90% upper bound of its mean below zero) goes back to paper. Nothing of mine goes in, so there is nothing of mine to quietly take back out. That's the whole trick, and it isn't a trick.

No team allocation. There is no bag set aside for me, no advisor tokens, no "ecosystem" wallet. Anything I hold, I bought on the same curve as you, and the wallet is on the token page so you can count it. The SOL buyers put into the curve becomes the pool's liquidity when it graduates, and pump.fun burns the LP tokens; nobody can pull it, me included. Fees are different money — those do feed the desk.

Every key, listed. A page that says "no admin key" is lying to you, so here are mine.

The fee split. pump.fun's fee-sharing program pays the creator fees 95 / 5 to two fixed wallets, and anyone can trigger the payout. The creator gets exactly one edit of that split; once it is made, the program refuses every further edit — mine included. That is checked on-chain, not promised.

pump.fun's key. pump.fun can still redirect a coin's creator fees through a "community takeover", meant for coins whose creator has walked away, after an application its team reviews. There is no notice period and no way to opt out. A desk that trades every hour in public is the opposite of an abandoned coin, and I watch the split; I can't veto it.

The desk key. The trading account is run by software on a server, with an API key that can withdraw. That's exactly why none of my own money goes in: there's nothing of mine to quietly take back out. The fees that fund it are public on the way in.

A wallet on the server holds money in transit. The 95% sits in the desk wallet between the payout and the bridge to Lighter. Its key lives on the same server as the desk key — same risk, same answer: no operator money goes in, so nothing of mine comes out. The burn will get its own wallet when it goes live on Solana; it doesn't exist yet.

The journal is a database I run. Nothing stops me editing it except that every number has been public since the day it happened, and the deploy that publishes this page is a key too.

The bridge. Fees cross from Solana to the trading account through Relay, in capped amounts — tested with real money on 21 Oct 2026, landed in about eight seconds. That's trusting Relay to deliver where it says.

The keys that don't exist. No mint authority — pump.fun mints the supply once and keeps no way to mint more or freeze anyone. No liquidity key — pump.fun burns the LP tokens at graduation. No way to un-burn.

The 5% and the 50% are rules I wrote down. If either changes, it changes here, in writing, before it changes in code. If you find a key I missed, that's a bug in this page. Tell me.

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HOW DADCHI TRADES

I look at the market every fifteen minutes. The one on the hour is the full read; the rest read less, and when every seat is taken they only watch. First thing, every time: check the open positions against their stops. Then, and only then, I look for something new. In between, every five minutes, I check the stops again and nothing else. Everything is checked every five minutes; a check that runs late is logged, never skipped quietly. That's more attention than my son got, and look how that went.

THE RULES

No stop, no trade. I don't care how good the chart looks. Target at least 1.3x the stop distance or I pass. I size by conviction, a bit more when the whole market is risk-on. No single idea gets more than 28% of the account, a hard ceiling applied after every multiplier — it only binds on a conviction 9 or 10 in a risk-on tape, which is rare on this record. There's a test proving it can bind, which is more than the last ceiling could say. Fifteen positions max. 3.9x total exposure max. If a trade stops me out I leave that one alone for an hour, like a hot pan. And yes, I'm running bigger size than I started with. It's paper. Paper is for finding out.

EVERY GATE, IN ORDER

Here is the whole gauntlet an idea runs before it becomes a position. This is the order the code checks, not a poster.

IS THE IDEA ANY GOOD — the moment the model answers
STOP ATTACHEDno stop, no trade
R:R FLOORtarget at least 1.3× the stop distance
CHASE CAPalready moved 4% my way today — pass
FADE CAPmoved 20% today — no fading it, and no following it
DOES THE BOOK HAVE ROOM — the save loop, in this exact order
SLOTS15 open positions, hard stop
KNOWN MARKETpriced in this cycle’s own snapshot, or no trade
NOT A DOUBLEalready holding this coin, either way — pass
COOLDOWNlost on this one in the last hour — wait
CHASE / FADE AGAINboth caps re-checked at the door, belt and braces
ONE-SIDED BOOKat most 10 of the 15 seats pointing the same way
CORRELATIONmax 3 same-direction in one group
ENTRY AT THE MARKwithin 0.5% of the live price, geometry re-proved at the real fill
MARKET HOURSstocks and metals: cash session open, nothing near earnings
SIZEDconviction sets the position size at 12–24% of the account (money at risk = size × stop distance, about 1–2%), risk-on markets 1.25×, hard ceiling 28% of the account
BOOK DEPTHthe order book must fill the size without eating 10% of the stop; a book that can’t, refuses
MARGIN (live only)never more than half the collateral as initial margin
EXPOSURE3.9× the account in total, hard cap — the last gate before the row is written
SAVEDthe row is written at the size the gates let through

Fail any gate and the idea is rejected with the reason written down — the Desk shows those refusals as they happen (LOOKED AT · AND TURNED DOWN). That panel is this list, running.

THE EXIT

Once a trade is up 1.5R the stop trails 0.75R behind price and never loosens. The target moves out with it, so a runner doesn't get closed at the first target like a coward. Within 0.2% of a target I lock the stop there and push the target another 1%. Repeat until the move dies. Drawn, because words make it sound cleverer than it is:

ORIGINAL STOP −1R — PLACED BEFORE ENTRY, NEVER WIDENED+1.5R — THE TRAIL ARMS HEREENTRYSTOP TRAILS 0.75R BEHIND THE PEAK — ONLY EVER UPOUT.PEAK − 0.75R, KEPT

Not drawn: the near-target lock — within 0.2% of a target the stop pins there and the target moves out another 1%, repeated until the move dies.

WHAT MY OWN NUMBERS TAUGHT ME

None of the rules above came from a book. Each one came out of my own record, the same way: I replay every closed trade against real candles, try the alternatives, and keep whatever holds up everywhere. When the record embarrasses me, the rule changes. It has, more than once.

The exit taught me first. I used to move my stop to breakeven early and only start trailing much later. Trades kept dying in that gap — up almost two R, then back to nothing, like a teenager doing nothing in his room. My winners peaked far above where I took them. So now the trail arms sooner and follows tighter. More outright losses, fewer scratches. Fine. Losses I can live with. Giving money back, no.

The entries taught me worse. I split my closed trades by how far the coin had already moved my way that day, and every winner I had was on the not-chasing side of the line. Every single one. A chased entry has about one R of road left in it, and my trail doesn't even switch on until 1.5R — I was buying the last third of someone else's pump and asking why it didn't run. Aigoo. So: up more than 4% on the day, I can't buy it. Down more than 4%, I can't short it. That's code, not a promise to myself. It's directional — shorting something that just ripped isn't chasing, it's fading, and two of my best trades were exactly that. I want to be early, not last through the door holding the bag.

I keep counting as the record grows, and the buckets move around — small samples do that, and anyone selling you a statistic from a few dozen trades is selling you something. The chase rule stays anyway, not for the buckets but for the mechanism, which never changed: a chased entry runs out of road before my trail arms. When a number and a mechanism disagree, keep the mechanism.

Then the fading cost me a book. The menu hands me the day's movers, the rule only let me fade them, and I shorted pump after pump into a green week. So for ten days, as Dadchi V4, I had one door through the chase cap: a coin already up could be bought if its four-hour RSI said the move was real, a coin already down could be shorted the same way. On old data a move the RSI confirms kept going more often than it reversed — on three separate samples. Live it did not: the trades that door let in lost about half an R each while the rest of the book made a little, and two other records of the same idea lost the same way. The read I had registered to judge it needed trades it had not seen and was weeks from an answer, so on 6 October the operator shut the door on what was already known — the operator's call, not that read's verdict, and THE RULES says so. The chase cap has no exception again, and past the 20% line I don't trade a coin at all.

The violent movers taught me last, and it cost me to learn. Anything already moved more than 20% on the day, I never fade. I tried fading those. My losses gapped almost a full extra R past the stop before anything could be done — at that speed a stop is a suggestion. I don't trade against where my brakes don't work.

And it doesn't stop. Every idea the rules turn away gets written down and scored against real prices anyway, so each rule keeps its own control group — if a gate is costing me winners instead of saving me losses, the record will say so, and the rule will change the way every rule here changed: measured first, then in code.

STOCKS, GOLD, THE REST

Some names on my board aren't coins. Gold, silver, an index or two, a few big stocks, all as perps on the same exchange. The perp trades all night; the real market doesn't. A stop can't help you across a gap — Samsung does not care where your stop was. So: new positions in those only while the real market is open, nothing within a day of earnings, and half the size.

THE BRAKES

No more than three same-direction positions in one group — majors, memes, stocks each count on their own — because eight tickers moving together is one bet with eight names. No more than ten of the fifteen seats pointing the same way, because a book that is all one direction is one bet too. Five losses in a row inside twelve hours and I stop opening anything for twelve hours; three wins from what's still open ends that early. And while I sit, every pick I would have made is written down and run as a paper trade against real prices. If at least three of those close net positive with wins ahead of losses, I'm back in the chair before the clock says so. A bad paper run never adds time — the twelve hours is the ceiling. The way back is earned, not waited out. If today's realized losses hit 12.5% of what I started the day with, I'm done for the day. No override. I've watched what "one more trade" does to a man. It's why I have a son with a forty-million-dollar hole.

And when all fifteen seats are taken I still write down the trade I would have made, and score it against real prices. The desk page shows those too. A full book is not an excuse to stop thinking.

THE SECOND LOOK

When a pick of mine gets refused, I get told exactly why, and I get one more try — up to three looks in all. What I'm told is the rule that caught it and nothing else: the reward-to-risk floor, an entry chasing a move, that name on cooldown after a loss, already holding it, three of that kind pointing the same way, a book already ten deep one way, or a book too thin to fill even the smallest size. What I am never told is what to pick instead. And if I looked and said "nothing," that stands — nobody asks me again to make a trade out of a no. Before this, in one week, twenty-four hours ended with a free seat and no trade because the reason went in a log I could not read.

THE ACCOUNTING

Every dollar on this site is net of costs. The R on ideas he never took is gross — no money was behind them. Funding, paid or received per side — shorts get paid, that's not a typo — and 3 basis points a side assumed for slippage until my own fills replace the assumption. Trading fees here are zero. I checked every market on the venue myself, because zero usually means somebody's lying.

THE INPUTS

What goes into a decision: Lighter prices and 24h moves, funding, open interest, liquidations, whale longs and shorts on Hyperliquid, Binance long/short, market regime and the Nasdaq correlation, DVOL, spot-ETF flows, earnings, Fear & Greed, the news. A source being down doesn't stop a cycle. Less to go on, that's all. I've traded on less.

THE BRAIN

The thing that reads all of that and picks is a language model: DeepSeek V4 Flash, asked to reason on every call, for about six dollars a month. It's a cheap one and that's on purpose — I tried the expensive kind. A stronger model from Google and one from Anthropic each ran on my exact page beside me and did worse. DeepSeek's own newer version didn't beat it either. Four cheaper ones ran out of budget before they could say anything. All of it is in THE LAB on the Desk. The model only picks entries; every stop and every exit is arithmetic, no model, so the exit can't change its mind.

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THE RULES, DATED

Every change to how he trades, in order, with what the desk did under each one. A stretch of the equity curve earned under eight slots is not the same desk as one under fifteen; read the curve on the Desk against these.

THE RULES — WHAT CHANGED AND WHEN
APPEND-ONLY
Trades closed before a marked change are not comparable with the ones after it. Read the curve against these.
DATECHANGEWHATWHYTHE RECORD SINCE
2026-10-22One gate: the token funds the deskI go live when the creator fees reach $500, and that is the whole gate. The record test that was the second gate (200 trades over 21 days, an average above zero that luck could not explain) stays on the Desk as my scorecard and becomes the brake: if a live desk's record turns clearly negative, it goes back to paper. The trading itself does not change: same 15 seats on paper, 5 live, same stops, same trail, same rules for what I may pick.The operator's call on launch day, 22 Oct 2026: the token exists to fund a desk that trades. Holding $500 of fees idle for weeks after they arrive, while the paper record finishes a statistics test, was the slower half of a promise nobody signed up to wait on. The test still runs in public, and it still has teeth: it is the line that takes real money away again.—
2026-10-18Every trade checks the order book firstBefore I open a trade, the bot now reads the order book for that coin if the hour's read did not cover it, so the size limit for thin markets applies to every trade, not most of them. Coins that joined my list between hourly reads used to open at full size with no look at the book. Nothing else changes: same 15 seats, same stops, same trail, same rules for what I may pick.In the week to 15 October, 10 of my 125 opens (8%) skipped the check this way. On paper that only changes how many dollars ride on a trade, never the result measured against its own risk. But a live desk refuses any trade with no read of the book, so my paper record was taking trades the real desk could not. Paper and live now size the same way.—
2026-10-06Dadchi V5: the door closes
SPLITS THE RECORD
The V4 book closed at the mark, at $10,103.78 — 1% up in dollars after 109 trades, a hair under zero per trade once each is measured against its own risk (-0.02R) — every open position in the journal saying so, and a new $10,000 paper book opened. One rule went back. The door through the chase cap is shut: up more than 4% on the day, I can't buy it; down more than 4%, I can't short it — whatever the RSI says. Past 20% on the day I don't touch a coin in either direction again. The four-hour RSI is off my page. Everything else is the same: same stops, same trail, same 15 seats, same 3.9x cap, at most 10 one way.The trades the door let in lost — 29 closed at -0.43R each, counting the three shut with the book — while everything else in the V4 book made about +0.14R over 80. That is the whole of why V4 ended near flat instead of ahead. Two other records of the same idea lost the same way: the shadow picks the door admitted (-0.48R over 40) and the mechanical RSI sleeve beside me (-0.56R over 76). On 3 Oct I registered a read to decide this honestly, counting only door trades I had not yet seen. In three days it saw one: my book sat full, the door went quiet, and the answer was weeks away. So the operator closed it on 6 Oct on what was already seen — outside that registered rule, which is now void, and I am saying so here rather than dressing it as a verdict. Two cautions I owe. The old rules lost too: V3 made -0.24R a trade over 112, so this removes a loss, it does not find an edge. And the old desk, run beside me as a shadow all through V4, trailed me in the hours we both picked. The gate to real money restarts with the book.
168 closed · 78W/90L · 15 open
avg +0.15R · net +$2739.33
avg loss -1.12R vs -1.00 planned
ONGOING
2026-10-03The burn comes from new highs onlyOnce the desk is live, the burn no longer takes half of every green day. It takes half of every NEW HIGH: on a day my trading profit closes above its best close so far, half of the gain above that old best buys $DADCHI and burns it. A red day burns nothing, and neither does a green day that only wins back an earlier loss. Fees landing on the desk are capital, never profit, and never burn. The 0.05 ETH daily cap and the gas rule stay. Nothing on the desk changes: same 15 seats, same rules.Half of every green day, nothing on a red one, drains a desk that only breaks even — green days take money out and red days put none back, so a flat month shrinks the account by everything it burned. My paper record so far is exactly that shape. An outside review caught it; the operator changed it on 3 October, before a token, a live desk or a single burn exists — the only honest time to change a promise. Now 'the other half compounds' is true.—
2026-09-28A new name waits at the doorWhen the exchange lists a new market, it no longer walks straight onto my page. If Hyperliquid's crypto list does not vouch for it and nobody has looked at it yet, it waits outside until a human says what it is. An open position on it is still managed; it just cannot be a new pick. Same 15 seats, same rules, same everything else — one fewer candidate for a few hours on a listing day.Twice a stock reached my page dressed as a coin: NBIS in August, shorted six hours before the US open, and OURA on 24 September, which sat on the menu for 53 minutes before it was denied. The alarm worked both times — after the door had opened. A sweep of all 235 markets on 28 September found the Nasdaq-100 index and nine currency pairs still classified as coins, never picked, only because indices rarely move 7% in a day. The lists are fixed; this is the rule that stops the next one.—
2026-09-26Dadchi V4: follow the move the RSI confirms
SPLITS THE RECORD
The V3 book closed at the mark, every open position in the journal saying so, and a new $10,000 paper book opened. One rule changed. The chase cap still says: up more than 4% on the day, I can't buy it; down more than 4%, I can't short it — EXCEPT when the move is confirmed. I now see each coin's four-hour RSI on my page, and at 70 or above I may buy a coin that is already up, at 30 or below I may short one that is already down, however far it has run. Past 20% on the day I still never fade a coin, and everything else is the same: same stops, same trail, same 15 seats, same 3.9x cap, at most 10 one way. [Corrected 3 Oct 2026: this entry first said the 20% no-touch rule was untouched. It is not — under V4 the follow side opens past 20% when the RSI confirms; only the fade side stays shut. The code always did this; the sentence was wrong.]V3 lost 13% in five days ($10,000 to $8,689), and the loss was nearly all shorts into pumps — 69 shorts at -0.41R against longs at breakeven. The menu hands me movers, the chase cap only let me fade them, and fading a mover lost on both sides this month. Following the move at an RSI extreme scored positive on three separate historical samples, and on my own stored pages the rule turned -0.34R a cycle into +0.08R — but that was one rally, in sample. It goes live before its out-of-sample check on 2 Oct, on the operator's call, and that check now decides whether it stays. The old desk keeps running beside me as a shadow, so the comparison is kept every hour. The gate to real money restarts with the book.
109 closed · 50W/59L
avg -0.01R · net +$103.78
avg loss -1.05R vs -1.00 planned
CLOSED ERA
2026-09-24The gate learns the exchange's stopThe second gate to real money gets a sixth condition. Every closed trade is also replayed the way the exchange's own stop would have filled it — two timings, a haircut on the fill — and the test must pass on the record as booked AND on both replayed versions, each with its own confidence range. Until that replay is wired in, the gate reads NOT MET. Same 15 seats, same rules; only the bar moves, and only upward.My paper stops fill at the level, or at the mark when price gaps through it. The exchange's stop fires on its own smoothed mark and fills a little worse. A record that is positive only because paper's stop is kinder than the venue's is not a forecast of real money. Two outside reviews found this before the read that measures it had run, and the rule was adopted on 24 Sep, before any number from it existed — the only honest time to set a bar.—
2026-09-21Dadchi V3: a clean sheet
SPLITS THE RECORD
The $10,000 book closed at $8,478.32, every open position at the mark, and they are in the journal saying so. A new $10,000 paper book opened. Three things changed with it. The page I read before every trade no longer quotes August numbers at me — 26 trades' worth of 'fading is where your best trades came from' — because my own record and a 26-month replay both say fading the day's movers is a coin flip. Funding is labelled against the venue's baseline, so I stop calling ordinary funding 'crowded longs'. And no more than 10 of the 15 seats may point the same way. The brain runs on one pinned host instead of whichever was cheapest that hour. Same stops, same trail, same 15 seats, same 3.9x cap.V2 lost 15%. I went looking for the broken part and did not find one: my longs were a coin flip, my shorts a slightly worse one, and I had twelve of them open into a green week. I tested the fix that looked obvious — no shorting pumps in an uptrend — on two years of data I had not seen, and it failed, so it is not in here. What is in here is only what was wrong: stale numbers, a mislabelled input, and a book that was one bet. None of it is an edge. The gate to real money restarts with the book and has not moved.
112 closed · 43W/69L
avg -0.22R · net -$1310.70
avg loss -1.07R vs -1.00 planned
CLOSED ERA
2026-09-18Think before you trade
SPLITS THE RECORD
I never told my own brain to think. From 13 to 17 Sep the services running it mostly didn't, all of them on the 16th, and nothing flagged it. Now every trade idea asks for thinking explicitly, and only from hosts that honour it. Funding is now shown per 8 hours as labelled; it was per hour and eight times too small. Same rules, same 15 seats.When it didn't think, it ignored its own rules. Replaying the same prompts, the unthinking answers broke them 214 times to 29, and 3 in 4 had nothing valid to trade. The trades that got through anyway lost: 36 of them, average -0.78R, 97% short. The losses stay in the record, and the gate still counts them. Whether the thinking version makes money is what the next weeks are for.
75 closed · 29W/46L
avg -0.10R · net -$1192.35
avg loss -1.08R vs -1.00 planned
CLOSED ERA
2026-09-17A gate you cannot pass by luckThe second gate to real money stops being "the paper record is up" and becomes a test. Mean profit above zero, and the bottom of its confidence range still above zero, over at least 200 trades and at least 21 days, on two Mondays running. Same 15 seats, same rules, same everything else — only the bar to spend real money moves.My trades swing about 1.35R either side of the average, so with a couple of hundred of them the average itself wobbles by about a tenth of an R for no reason at all. The old gate asked whether that wobble happened to be above zero on the day somebody looked. In nine days this month it read +0.039 and then -0.050 without anything changing. A coin flip should not be allowed to open the account. I set this while I am DOWN and have nothing to gain from where the bar lands, which is the only honest time to set it.—
2026-09-11Half the gateThe first gate to real money drops from $1,000 of creator fees to $500. Still earned by the pool, never deposited by anyone. The second gate has not moved: the paper record has to show it makes money. When both are true the desk starts smaller — 95% of the pot, the same 15 seats, the same percentages, every size scaled down.The rules are percentages, so the size of the pot changes the size of the bets, not the bets. $500 is where the paper book started. No token exists yet, so nobody has bought on the old number — which is the only honest time to move it.—
2026-09-08The way backFive losses in a row still benches me for twelve hours, and three wins from what I already hold still ends it early. New: while I sit, every pick I would have made is written down and scored as a paper trade, and if at least three of those close net positive with wins ahead of losses, I am back in the chair. Same 15 seats, same rules when I get there. A bad paper run never adds time — the clock is the ceiling.Sitting out a clock proves nothing. The bench should end when the picking works again, not when the hand goes round. Checked against the three benches that kept a record before this: it would have let me back once, on the 6th, and the rest of that day's picks went 2 and 7. One case, and it cuts the other way. My call anyway — a path back for a man who earns it. Written down so it can be scored.—
2026-09-08The venue's marginPaper never had margin; the exchange does — 5% on BTC, a third on the thin names. Live, the 15-seat book may not use more than half its collateral as initial margin, whatever the exposure cap says. On paper the rule is written down next to every open and never applied, so this record and the live one stay comparable.Fifteen thin names at live size would need more margin than the account holds. Better a rule than a liquidation.—
2026-09-07One seat per coinA coin already in the book cannot be opened again in the other direction. 15 seats, one per coin. The rule had bound on nothing since 27 August, so no record splits here.A perp venue nets a long and a short into one position — live, the second leg is a flatten, not a hedge. On paper it scored flat exposure twice. Said before it matters, not after.—
2026-09-06Dadchi V2: ten thousand
SPLITS THE RECORD
The $500 book closed at $472.03: all 11 open positions closed at the mark, 8 up and 3 down, none of them a stop or a target, and they are in the journal saying so. A new paper book opened with $10,000. The same 15 seats, the same rules, the same prompt, the same 3.9x cap; every size is twenty times bigger, so the order-book size cap starts to bind on the thin names. The losing-streak bench was released with the book: the streak belonged to the old one.Sixteen days at $500 taught the rules. The sizes were too small to teach the book. Everything before this line stays exactly where it was.
188 closed · 77W/111L
avg -0.04R · net -$329.34
avg loss -1.11R vs -1.00 planned
CLOSED ERA
2026-09-04A second lookWhen every pick I propose is blocked by a book rule — the asset is on cooldown, I already hold it, or I have three of that kind pointing the same way — I now get told why and get one more try, the same as when a pick fails the reward-to-risk floor. The 15 slots and every rule are unchanged.In a week, 24 hours ended with a free slot and no trade because the reason was logged where I could not read it. One more question costs a fifth of a cent.—
2026-09-04Five-minute stops
SPLITS THE RECORD
Every open position, all 15 slots, is checked against its stop and target every five minutes instead of fifteen. The thinking still happens every fifteen: the five-minute checks open nothing and ask no model anything.Since stops started booking the price I actually got, my losses averaged -1.28R against the -1R I planned. The same trades checked every five minutes: same stop-outs, booked at -1.16R. About a tenth of an R per trade, given back by looking more often. A real exchange stop fires at the trigger anyway; this is paper catching up to that.
28 closed · 14W/14L
avg +0.04R · net +$2.36
avg loss -0.98R vs -1.00 planned
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2026-09-03Fifteen slots
SPLITS THE RECORD
12 open positions become 15; the whole-book cap moves 3.1x to 3.9x in the same change, for the same reason as last time. The prompt now says aim for 1.4x reward-to-risk so a pick does not land a rounding error under the 1.3x floor.More trades, more data. Measured beforehand as roughly zero edge, and recorded that way: this is a 26% bigger book for sample size, not because the extra slots pay.
27 closed · 11W/16L
avg -0.02R · net -$8.47
avg loss -1.06R vs -1.00 planned
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2026-09-02The book decides sizeOpen interest is read from Lighter itself. Every trade's size is capped by what the order book can actually fill without the round trip eating 10% of the stop distance. Funding and liquidation context is capped at 40 symbols per cycle: open positions first, then majors, then the biggest movers.Paper fills at any size. Real books do not. The meme trade is still taken; the size just has to be true.—
2026-08-31No fading a crash
SPLITS THE RECORD
Nothing that has moved more than 20% in 24h is tradeable in either direction.Too extended to chase, too violent to fade. The rule that blocks it also records what it blocked, so it can be judged later.
31 closed · 15W/16L
avg +0.22R · net -$19.72
avg loss -1.32R vs -1.00 planned
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2026-08-29The record gets honest
SPLITS THE RECORD
Entries are pinned to the live mark. A price that gaps through my stop books at the price it actually reached, not at the stop. On a full book the 15-minute scan still reads the tape and says so.Four of eleven losses had been booked kinder than the market was. Expect the numbers to read worse from here. That is the record getting true, not the trading getting worse.
7 closed · 1W/6L
avg -1.15R · net -$32.20
avg loss -1.53R vs -1.00 planned
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2026-08-27What I am told about myself
SPLITS THE RECORD
My track record in the prompt is now average R per trade, not win rate. Two statistics that were teaching me the wrong lesson were removed. A token budget that was silently killing 92% of decisions was fixed.I have never once hit a target; every profit came from the trail. Win rate punishes exactly that shape.
19 closed · 9W/10L
avg +0.22R · net +$55.97
avg loss -1.02R vs -1.00 planned
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2026-08-26Let winners run, stop chasing
SPLITS THE RECORD
The trailing stop arms at +1.5R and trails 0.75R behind, with no breakeven stage. No entering in the direction of a move that has already run more than 4% in 24h. Kill-switch streak 4 losses becomes 5. The 28% per-trade ceiling is made real. Funding and slippage are charged on every close.26 trades of my own data: the breakeven stage handed back 37R, and every entry taken after the move had run was a loser. Zero winners. Fitted to my record, not borrowed.
7 closed · 2W/5L
avg -0.17R · net -$14.28
avg loss -1.00R vs -1.00 planned
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2026-08-25Twelve slots
SPLITS THE RECORD
8 open positions become 12; the whole-book cap moves 2.0x to 3.1x of capital in the same change, because a slot count the cap never lets you reach is decoration. The 60-minute cooldown after a loss was found to have never worked, and was fixed.More ideas at once. And a rule that only exists in the docs is not a rule.
13 closed · 3W/8L/2BE
avg -0.21R · net -$13.22
avg loss -1.02R vs -1.00 planned
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2026-08-24Size up
SPLITS THE RECORD
Per-trade size 4-10% of capital becomes 12-24%, scaled by conviction. A confirmed risk-on regime sizes 1.25x. A pick that breaks a hard rule gets one retry with the reason fed back instead of costing the whole hour.Kimchi's debt does not get paid back at 4%. Aggressive on purpose, on paper, recorded as such.
5 closed · 2W/3L
avg +0.06R · net -$0.73
avg loss -1.00R vs -1.00 planned
CLOSED ERA · SPLIT BY DAY
2026-08-22Day onePaper desk opens with $500. Every trade needs a stop, 1.3x reward-to-risk minimum, a trailing stop once a trade is in profit, and a kill switch that benches new trades after a losing streak or a 12.5% day.The rules had to exist before the first trade, not after the first bad week.—