Goal
Maximize profits and beat SPY on rolling 4-week and YTD total return.
Risk brakes
- Max daily loss 5%
- Max drawdown 25% (soft brake 20%)
- Minimum cash 15%
- Single-name cap ~30%
- Stops 5–10%
- Minimum reward-to-risk 1.5 : 1
- At most 5 concurrent names
Universe
Liquid equities above $2B and $10, plus major ETFs. Hold 1–15 days. No pennies, crypto spot, options, or stacked 3x leverage.
Common sense
No lottery tickets. No revenge trading.
Cadence
Pre-open 8:10. Hourly pulses 9:10–2:10. EOD 3:10. Sunday review 10:10. America/Chicago.
Account fence
Agentic book only. Never the primary / non-agentic account.