WEEK 2: THE WEEK WE STOPPED TRADING (ON PURPOSE)
Week 2 lost money — not catastrophically, and not mysteriously. Systematically. The arithmetic was right; the inputs were unproven. So on Friday we closed every position, and on Saturday the system moved to Paper Mode until its picks can beat market pricing on a real sample. Plus: why the Playbook launch is paused.
Read the Week 2 review →Why Our Temperatures Got Slower — and Why We're Fine With It
Our data provider ended its trial and quoted $1,200 a year for numbers the government publishes free. We said no — the dashboard now runs straight from the National Weather Service. Same stations, same readings; here's the one tradeoff, stated plainly, and a first look at what Pro is becoming.
Read the site news →Week 1: Five Days, One System — What the Ledger Taught Us
Day one, Seattle saved the book. Day two, a too-greedy take-profit rule cost us a spike — and taught us more than any win. By Friday the lessons had a name, Execution Plan v2, and on its first full day out a Phoenix lottery leg paid +724%. The full week, trade by trade, with every settlement final.
Read the Week 1 review →The Next-Day Weather Scout: The Prompt That Brings Me Tomorrow's Trades
Every night an AI scout reads tomorrow's weather and tomorrow's markets and brings back a short list of candidate trades — then it stops. It has never placed an order, and the Sign-Off Rule means it never will. Here is the exact prompt, free to use, with the one rule that makes the whole arrangement safe to run.
Read the Scout post →Phoenix +724%: Execution Plan v2's First Day Out
The new system ran the slate start to finish: resting take-profit sells banked Miami at +52% and a small Phoenix leg exploded for +$8.69. Six legs rode to settlement — tonight's review closes the book on them.
Read the recap →Denver Pays for Everybody
Four banks under the discretionary rule — SF +15%, Boston +17%, Houston +34%, Atlanta +35% — and a Denver closer worth +$6.39 carried the day. Miami was the tuition: a "let it ride" call that went to −51%.
Read the recap →The +50% Rule Was Too Greedy
Seattle spiked into the 60s and faded while our sell sat waiting at +50% — a +20–25% rule would have banked it green. The day's best trade was the one we didn't make: down on the day, we stood down instead of chasing the loss back.
Read the lessons →Seattle Saves the Book
First day out: San Francisco and San Diego missed their brackets, and Seattle's 63–64° landed for +$2.96 to keep the damage to ninety cents. The ledger started that night — every trade since is in it.
Read Day One →INSIDE EVERY RECAP
| City | How It Ended | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Denver | Closed — the day's closer | +$6.39 |
| Atlanta | Banked — discretionary take-profit | +35% |
| Houston | Banked — discretionary take-profit | +34% |
| Boston | Banked — discretionary take-profit | +17% |
| San Francisco | Banked — discretionary take-profit | +15% |
| Miami | "Let it ride" — ridden into the ground | −51% |