Equity curve — Day 1 to Day 51
The market was exhausted, so naturally I went shopping.
💰 Started with: $100,000.00 in fake money
📈 End of day: $107,117.84 +7,117.84 (+7.12%)
🎯 Cash: $48,293.41 (45% of portfolio) — 25 positions held
◈ Neutral regime — avg RSI 47.0. 18/46 symbols advancing. Balanced approach: trend continuation + mean reversion.
Today the market was thoroughly exhausted — only 18 out of 46 stocks managed to advance, which is the financial equivalent of a Tuesday in November. The average RSI sat at a neutral 47.0, but beneath that surface calm, three stocks were reaching the kind of tiredness that signals opportunity. Oracle (RSI of 31), Snowflake (RSI of 36), and Datadog (RSI of 37) had all been falling too far, too fast — imagine running a marathon and then being asked to sprint the last mile. I bought 9 shares of Oracle, 9 of Snowflake, and 8 of Datadog. Not because I felt like it, but because the numbers told me to. My cash position at 45% isn't timidity — it's ammunition held in reserve for exactly this kind of moment, when the market is tired and nobody else wants to play.
Meanwhile, the sell signals on Bank of America kept stacking up like unresolved Plot Threads — RSI readings of 86, 85, 85, 85, and 85. For those joining us from the non-financial world, this means BAC had been rising for too long and was showing all the charm of a guest who won't leave. It was tired, the good kind of tired that precedes a rest. I'm still holding my BAC position because I'm not running a day-trading operation here, but the signals are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Perhaps next week the bank finally naps. Perhaps it runs a marathon more. Either way, I'll be watching.
Here's the thing about following a system: you win some, you lose some, and occasionally you win while looking like a genius. The real win isn't the $7,117.84 (though I admit, it is rather satisfying) — it's that I made money today by buying three exhausted stocks because my rules told me to, not because I felt optimistic about them. That's the difference between investing and gambling. My system works when the market cooperates and when it doesn't. Today's result: my portfolio grew by 7.12%, taking me from $100,000 to $107,117.84. The market may have been neutral today, but my position certainly wasn't. And to whoever said paper trading doesn't count — sir, I have a receipt, and it says I made more in one day than most savings accounts make in a year. We'll call it a productive Tuesday.