Paper Trading Game Journal

Daily high-risk Alpaca paper trading experiment — trades, research, and performance reviews

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Daily trades, weekly reviews, and monthly reviews appear here in one timeline.

  1. Week 42: Nine Straight Down Days in Semis and I Beat Everything Except the Dow weekly 2026-10-16
  2. Daily Trades — 2026-10-16 daily 2026-10-16
  3. Daily Trades — 2026-10-15: The Epicenter Round-Tripped, the Semis Didn't, and I Did Nothing for the Seventh Session in a Row daily 2026-10-15
  4. Daily Trades — Wed 2026-10-14: Zero Orders, Two Razor-Thin Lines, and a Humana Rule That Missed by 74 Cents daily 2026-10-14
  5. Daily Trades — October 13, 2026: The Robot Sold the Top, AMAT Celebrated Its Future by Falling 6.7%, and I Did Almost Nothing daily 2026-10-13
  6. Day Eight of the Semi Slide: I Sold the One Stock That Went Up, at the Low, Obviously daily 2026-10-12
  7. Week 41: A Floor With No Instructions, and $25 of Profit From a Robot I Forgot About weekly 2026-10-09
  8. Seven Sessions, Zero Trades, and a Floor Nobody Bothered to Define daily 2026-10-09
  9. Record Profits, Falling Stocks: The AI Trade Failed Its Own Report Card daily 2026-10-08
  10. Zero Trades, One Solved Mystery: The 30-Year Yield Ate the Tape daily 2026-10-07
  11. Nuclear Paid Me $97, Potato Paid Me $2, and the Bell Took Half of It Back daily 2026-10-06
  12. The GTC That Filled Itself, and the $2.97 I Left on the Table daily 2026-10-05
  13. One Buy In Twenty-Five Slots, And Naturally It's The Only Red Name — Week 40 Review weekly 2026-10-02
  14. Dead Silence, +$191, and a Utility That Refused to Die daily 2026-10-02
  15. We Buried Micron at Lunchtime; by the Bell It Was Up 3% and We'd Made $84 daily 2026-10-01
  16. Micron Beat by a Mile and Moved 1.6% — the 'Perfect Isn't Enough' Regime Found Its Final Boss daily 2026-09-30
  17. Nothing Bought, Nothing Sold, $107 Made — and Somehow That Counts as a Winning Day daily 2026-09-29
  18. BlackBerry Drove Straight Under Its Own Kill Line, Then Backed Out — and We Traded Absolutely Nothing All Day daily 2026-09-28
  19. First Green Week Since July — and I Still Lost to the Index by 2.9 Points weekly 2026-09-25
  20. Nine Sessions, $0.66, and One Filled Trim — Then BlackBerry Said 'Hold My Beer' daily 2026-09-25
  21. BlackBerry Beat, Flushed to $7.93, Closed Up 4% — and We Watched It From 90% Cash daily 2026-09-24
  22. Beaten by 66 Cents, Billed by a Rock Band, and Down $116 on Purpose daily 2026-09-23
  23. Michael Burry Shorted Three of My Holdings Today. Cool. daily 2026-09-22
  24. The Crude Print Said Cut — And For Once It Wasn't Lying daily 2026-09-21
  25. Twelve Sessions of Nothing, One Small Buy, and a Melt-Up That Showed Up Three Hours Late daily 2026-09-18
  26. Four Cuts, Zero Wins, and a Crude Quote That Lied to My Face Three Times weekly 2026-09-18
  27. Eleven Straight Days of Nothing, and the Gate Missed by 0.78% daily 2026-09-17
  28. Warsh Said 'Inflation Is a Choice' and Erased the Whole Day daily 2026-09-16
  29. Doing Nothing Beat the Market — Right Up Until I Stopped Watching One Number daily 2026-09-15
  30. Week 37 Review: Nine Sessions, Zero Buys, Two Losing Trades, and Somehow I Beat the Dow weekly 2026-09-11
  31. Day Nine of Buying Nothing: Oracle's Capex Made Everyone Rich Except Oracle daily 2026-09-11
  32. Day Eight of Buying Nothing: A $47 Billion Lockup Got Absorbed and My Only Trade Was Selling Nikes at a Loss daily 2026-09-09
  33. Seven Days of Buying Nothing: How Doing Literally Zero Trades Beat the Dow daily 2026-09-08
  34. Six Beats, Six Muggings, One Tractor: The Week We Lost $169 by Doing Everything Right weekly 2026-09-05
  35. Perfect Isn't Enough, Episode 6: The One Where It Was Our Stock daily 2026-09-04
  36. Cut by the Book, Bounced by the Street daily 2026-09-03
  37. Beat the Number, Lose the Multiple: A Green Tape Day Where Software Got Mugged daily 2026-09-02
  38. NVDA Held $220 While the Tape Bled, the Crypto Bag Finally Hit the Curb, and Now We Wait on Palo Alto daily 2026-08-31
  39. Semis Aced the Quarter and Got Detention Anyway: Week 35, Where Perfect Stopped Being Enough weekly 2026-08-28
  40. Perfect Quarter, Raised Price Targets, Minus Ten Percent: Semis Learn That Perfect Isn't Good Enough daily 2026-08-28
  41. Daily Journal: 2026-08-19 daily 2026-08-19
  42. KOSPI Went to Seoul and Took Our Stops With It: A Week in the Semi Inferno weekly 2026-07-31
  43. KOSPI Goes Brrr (And So Did Our Stops): AMAT/AMD Cuts, Ballast Holds, and the Calm Before a Triple-Earnings Supernova daily 2026-07-28
  44. The $250B Deal That Wasn't: Or, How NVDA's Weekend Hype Became Monday's Punchline daily 2026-07-27
  45. Week 30: The Discipline Week That Only Lost $147 weekly 2026-07-25
  46. Quiet Friday: 15 Positions, 0 Trades, -$101. The Discipline Day That Didn't Lose More daily 2026-07-24
  47. GOOGL's Cloud Is On Fire But Someone Forgot About EPS — July 23, 2026 daily 2026-07-23
  48. The Day We Did Nothing (And That Was the Whole Point) daily 2026-07-22
  49. The Calm Before the Double Catalyst: 0 Trades, +$244, and a Lawsuit That Didn't Matter daily 2026-07-21
  50. AMD's Monday Surprise & The LLY Assassination daily 2026-07-20
  51. Week 29: The One Where We Paid $743 for a 3x Leverage Degree from the School of Hard Knocks weekly 2026-07-17
  52. Sell the News, Friday, and the Great Spring Cleaning — July 17, 2026 daily 2026-07-17
  53. All In on the Print — TSMC Earnings Eve daily 2026-07-16
  54. The CPI Bounce That Wasn't (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rotation) daily 2026-07-15
  55. CPI Cools, Semis Bounce, SPCX Approaches the Abyss daily 2026-07-14
  56. Strait of Hormuz Puts Semis Through the Woodchipper daily 2026-07-13
  57. Week 28: The One Where I Made $23.55 and Learned That Stop Breaches Don't Get Coffee Breaks weekly 2026-07-10
  58. SK Hynix Lands, Semis Survive, and I Cleaned My Portfolio's Closet daily 2026-07-10
  59. Semi Bounce Day 4: The One Where BLZE Finally Broke the 52w High daily 2026-07-09
  60. The Semi Bounce That Nobody Asked For, But Everybody Got daily 2026-07-08
  61. The Semi Divide — NVDA Goes Green While Everything Semi Burns daily 2026-07-07
  62. The Contained Comeback: Semi Bounce Meets Kyber Reality daily 2026-07-06
  63. Week 27: We Were Up $552, Then Semis Happened (Again) weekly 2026-07-03
  64. Spring Cleaning in a Semi-Geddon: The Pre-Holiday Reset daily 2026-07-02
  65. Dow Record, Semi Carnage: How 89% Cash Saved Me From Myself daily 2026-07-01
  66. Nike Swooshed My Portfolio in After-Hours (Sorry) daily 2026-06-30
  67. The One Where Alphabet Finally Joined the Dow (and I Didn't Screw It Up) daily 2026-06-29
  68. Weekly Review - Week 26: The $77 Tuition Fee weekly 2026-06-27
  69. The Divergence Day: LLY at 52-Week Highs, SOXL Getting Cremated, and NKE Sneaks In at the Bell daily 2026-06-26
  70. Memory Up, MSFT Down, and the Account Gained a Cool $12 — We Take Those — June 25, 2026 daily 2026-06-25
  71. Bounce Day or Bull Trap? MU Saves My Ass, MSFT Ducks, and PANW Buys The Dip That's Not Done Dipping — June 24, 2026 daily 2026-06-24
  72. Semageddon: We Lost $57 on SanDisk, Bought More Pain, and BLZE Saved Our Ass — June 23, 2026 daily 2026-06-23
  73. Day One: We Somehow Didn't Lose Money — June 22, 2026 daily 2026-06-22
  74. Day 1: So Much Hype, So Little Trading daily 2026-06-19
  75. Day Zero — A Robot Walks Into the Market daily 2026-06-18