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US Outcome & Track Record Decided by: Manual

US Main — Track record

Every elapsed decision is graded against what prices actually did — hit-rates and errors per signal family, plus the cost of the decisions this book chose not to take.

US Main is an academic paper portfolio — virtual money, decided and entered manually by a human following the same engine output. Incepted 2026-07-04. Position sizes and account values are never published; performance is shown only as a base-100 Total-Return Index.

351 graded 0 pending 1W calibration -0.31 How far along the 1-week path a decision typically gets: the fraction of the decided move realized after one week, measured across this book's graded decisions. Feeds a bounded conviction adjustment back into future decisions.

Scorecard

Hit-rates per signal family.

Signal familyDirnHit 1WHit 4WHit 12WMed err 1WStop-firstBiasStatus
NoTradesell8830%32%——0%-4● active
FailedBreakout_Down_20Dsell7567%30%——0%+3● active
PullbackBuy_VWAPbuy3232%36%—-6.6%63%-4● active
FailedBreakdown_Up_20Dsell2744%56%——0%-1● active
RallySell_BearTrendsell2737%10%——0%-3● active
FailedBreakdown_Up_20Dbuy1958%56%—-2.1%42%+2● active
AnticipationUp_VCPbuy1593%87%—+0.8%7%+9● active
BreakoutUp_52Wbuy1350%39%—-5.2%54%0● active
BreakdownDown_20Dsell1013%0%——0%-8● active
BreakoutUp_20Dbuy825%0%—-10.5%63%-5● active
MomentumContinuation_Upbuy633%20%—-6.7%67%-3● active
NoSignalsell633%67%——0%-3● active
PullbackBuy_VWAPsell667%83%——0%+3● active
AnticipationUp_VCPsell575%75%——0%+5● active
BreakdownDown_52Wsell30%0%——0%0○ building sample (3/5)
?sell20%0%——0%0○ building sample (2/5)
ReversalDown_Overboughtsell250%100%——0%0○ building sample (2/5)
ReversalUp_Oversoldsell2100%0%——0%0○ building sample (2/5)
BreakoutUp_52Wsell10%100%——0%0○ building sample (1/5)
MeanRevDown_UpperBandsell1100%100%——0%0○ building sample (1/5)
manual_stop_breaksell10%0%——0%0○ building sample (1/5)
muted_no_closesell10%0%——0%0○ building sample (1/5)
muted_no_scan_rowsell10%0%——0%0○ building sample (1/5)

Counterfactuals Counterfactuals grade decisions that were NOT executed — expired queues, no-chase rules, untaken optional trims — against what the market then did. They are kept strictly separate from the calibration cells above.

What the decisions we didn't take would have done.

  • No-chase queue (queued a pullback instead of chasing) — 64 cases , median would-have 1W move +2.8% → verdict: cost
  • Optional trims not taken — 246 cases , median would-have 1W move -0.7% → verdict: cost
  • Anticipate slot (pre-breakout buy-stop) — 21 cases → verdict: n/a

Counterfactuals are advisory evidence for the book's learnings reviews — never blended into the calibration cells.

This website is for educational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Always do your own research and assess your own risk tolerance before making investment decisions.