Notes · 05
Five clocks on this platform
Same grade floor. Read the drawdown before the return.
This platform uses one gate. A setup earns an A or an A+ or it never becomes a card. You choose how many positions stay open. A weekly read is the cadence. The clocks differ, and so does the path you have to be willing to sit through.
The five clocks
Investor. This sleeve holds for days. It waits for a range to break, then stays with the move. The sleeves are Darvas and Dual Thrust, on investor stocks and on investor crypto. Fewer cards, longer holds. In the simulation from 1 November 2023 through 27 September 2026, the combined maximum drawdown was −6.6%. Buy-and-hold SPY in that window drew down −18.8%. The sleeve pages list the pool-level returns. Start with the drawdown.
Day. Same kind of names, a shorter clock, on day stocks and on day crypto. It is built to be finished with an idea while that shorter window is still the trade. A quiet stretch is a normal week on this clock.
RSI2 dip-buy. This sleeve buys a sharp drop. It is long only. On the RSI2 page, read the figures in this order: a −55.3% max drawdown, a Sharpe of +2.25, and a simulated gain of +4583%. A high ratio can still describe a fall that is hard to live through. It stays on paper.
Options. The stock idea, written as a listed contract when one is liquid enough to suggest. The stock card remains the idea. A replay that charged time decay landed near break-even. The contract is a way to take the view. The options page has the replay.
Short premium. A put spread on a large technology stock. The long put sets the most that trade can lose before you enter. You can still lose that maximum. The short premium page has the simulation. Those option prices are a model, a different object from the print a broker would have filled. The sleeve stays in observe mode until live orders are armed.
How to read the page
Drawdown first, then the shape of the return, then the ratio. Four percent a month, if it arrived every month, compounds to about sixty percent a year. Treat that figure as arithmetic. The planning number is the path you can sit through, drawdown included. A credit of 1–2% of a stock's price is the cash collected on that name. Premium collected, total return, and drawdown are different facts.
The table, the window, and the SPY comparison are on the research page. Live orders stay off until the 31 October 2026 review. The earliest start is 3 November 2026, and only if that review passes. Paper is available now.
Not financial advice. Past results, paper results, and simulations do not guarantee future returns. You can still lose money.