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Our results

Our goal is simple: beat the S&P 500. Here’s how we’re doing live right now — and how the rebuilt system performed in backtesting before we put it to work.

Live · real paper trades
Since we went live
-1.5%
S&P 500: -3.6% · alpha +2.1%
Day 21 · 4 trades closed · 75% win rate · as of Jun 26, 2026
Backtested · simulated, not live
In testing (2023–2026)
+26.4%/yr
S&P 500: +21.6%/yr · alpha +4.8%/yr
Max drawdown 16.8% · 138 trades simulated

Same goal going forward: beat the S&P 500 live, the way the system beat it in testing. The live number above is the one that counts — we’ll let it speak for itself.

What we’re holding right now live

Every position the system is holding in the paper account today — the price we got in at, and where our stop and target sit. Real paper trades, updated as the system buys and sells.

Ticker Engine Shares Entry Stop Target Opened
PIII relative strength 306 $12.81 $9.50 $19.25 Jun 15, 2026
CWAN breakout 202 $24.52 $24.31 $24.92 Jun 22, 2026
CUE relative strength 164 $26.43 $20.89 $38.85 Jun 25, 2026

Recent trades live

What we bought, what we sold, and what we made — newest first. Each trade is measured against the S&P 500 over the same window it was open, so you can see whether holding it beat just holding the index.

Closed Ticker Engine Entry Exit Our return S&P Alpha Result
Jun 25, 2026 EVC relative strength $9.05 $11.58 +23.9% -0.6% +24.5% Hit target
Jun 18, 2026 MRK breakout $121.98 $112.13 -5.4% -2.1% -3.2% Stopped out
Jun 17, 2026 GEO breakout $26.43 $29.21 +8.3% +1.5% +6.8% Hit target
Jun 4, 2026 GS breakout $993.03 $1082.16 +0.0% +0.0% +0.0% Hit target

How it performed in backtesting

Everything in this section is backtested — simulated, not live. Backtest window 2023-05-30 → 2026-05-29 across 750 liquid names sampled from our full universe. Idle cash is parked in SPY between trades, so the fair comparison is our return versus simply holding SPY.

Year (backtested) Our return SPY Alpha Trades Wins
2026 (to date) +17.1% +10.7% +6.4% 8 5
2025 +20.3% +16.4% +3.9% 47 21
2024 +28.1% +23.3% +4.8% 52 25

We show 2024 onward. Earlier history exists in the backtest but isn’t shown here.

Which engines earned a seat (backtested)

We don’t trust an engine just because it looks good in the past. Each one is tuned on an early slice of history and then graded on a later slice it never saw. An engine only goes live if it stays profitable on that held-out data.

Engine Trades Win rate Edge / trade Out-of-sample edge Verdict
breakout 0 0% +0.00% +0.00% (0) THIN
mean reversion 29 62% +3.69% +1.09% (6) PASS
relative strength 111 43% +1.63% +2.46% (22) PASS

PASS = still profitable on data it was never tuned on. THIN = too few out-of-sample trades to judge. FAIL = didn’t hold up.

Backtest snapshot generated May 29, 2026. Dynamic eligible universe through the hybrid funnel. Momentum feeder uses a historical %-change+volume proxy (live screener has no historical endpoint). Daily-bar approximation; per-trade expectancy (sizing-independent). Survivorship bias present. Stop-before-target on same-bar (conservative).

Read the full story of how we built this system →

About these numbers. The live figures come from a paper (simulated) account at Alpaca — real-time prices, but no real money is at risk. The backtested figures are hypothetical: what the rebuilt system would have done on historical data, not trades we placed. Backtests are run on today’s list of surviving companies — names that went bankrupt or were delisted never got the chance to hurt the results, which flatters them. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Past and hypothetical performance does not guarantee future results.