QQQ, Oct 14, 2026 · Trading desk

Paper trading, not investment advice. Every account and book on these pages trades paper money: the Alpaca paper accounts DAILY ($1,000,000 from Sep 30, 2026), INTRA1 ($100,000 from Sep 30, 2026) and INTRA2 ($100,000 from Sep 30, 2026); the simulated books SIM-TT ($100,000 from Sep 29, 2026), SIM-V2B ($100,000 from Sep 28, 2026) and SIM-V2B-TOM ($100,000 from Sep 28, 2026), filled at the official close; and market-analysis's ledgers, one contract per position against a $100,000 reporting equity. No real money is at stake. Positions, trades and P&L are published the same day, as the engines record them, with each number's source and cost model labelled. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security, and nothing is tailored to you. Each strategy is a pre-registered experiment, read once on a date or at a trade count fixed in advance; until then its record says little either way. I may hold or have held positions in securities shown here. Markets can and do lose money.

Account: DAILY
Strategy: IBS on SPY and QQQ
Book: ibs
Symbol: QQQ
Asset class: equity
Side: long
Exposure: long
Status: closed
Opened: Oct 14, 2026
Closed: Oct 15, 2026
Quantity: 68
Entry price: 728.23
Exit price: 728.0628
Exit by: exit
Book value at entry: $100,014.60

Record Trade journal

Cost model

Alpaca paper fills, with no commission. In the DAILY account, shares one sub-book buys and another sells at the same close meet inside the account at the official close, and every leg on the larger side gets one average of that price and Alpaca's fill. Alpaca's SEC and CAT fees, charged by the day, are left out. Commission is estimated at $0.007 a share a side, the rate at the owner's own broker: the net P&L is the P&L less it, without dividends; the P&L, the total with dividends, the return and the P&L in basis points of the sub-book are before it. An open trade is marked at the latest official close, before commission, with the dividends paid so far beside it.

Entry value: $49,519.64
Exit value: $49,508.27
P&L: −$11.37
Dividends: $0.00
P&L with dividends: −$11.37
Costs: $0.95
Net P&L: −$12.32
Return: −0.02%
Of the book: −1.1 bp
R multiple: —
Held: 1 session

Role	Date	At (ET)	Side	Qty	Asked	Price	Rule's price	Close	Slippage	Against the close	How	Why	The rule's numbers
entry	Oct 14, 2026	15:55 ET	buy	68	68	728.23	728.960022	728.950012	−10.0 bp	−9.9 bp	signal	long entry	7 trigger numbers ibs 0.18175421936375016 low 726.3900146484375 high 740.530029296875 open 738 close 728.9600219726562 exit_above 0.8 enter_below 0.2 8 numbers time 15:55:03 sleeve ibs netting buys 136 sells 0 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 728.9600219726562 account_order sent 136 side buy filled 136 status filled at_limit 136 at_market 0 avg_price 728.23 bp_vs_close −9.877387954919659 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-14 15:40:46-04:00 final_close_agrees true
exit	Oct 15, 2026	15:55 ET	sell	68	68	728.062794	728.599976	728.00	+7.4 bp	−0.9 bp	signal	exit	7 trigger numbers ibs 0.9683668475942911 low 715.4349975585938 high 729.030029296875 open 718.5399780273438 close 728.5999755859375 exit_above 0.8 enter_below 0.2 8 numbers time 15:55:16 sleeve ibs netting buys 0 sells 68 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 728.5999755859375 account_order sent 68 side sell filled 68 status filled at_limit 68 at_market 0 avg_price 728.062794 bp_vs_close −0.8625549450558267 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-15 15:40:27-04:00 final_close_agrees true

Span: 1 session
High: 729.429993 on Oct 15, 2026
Low: 715.434998 on Oct 15, 2026
Best point (MFE): +0.16%
Worst point (MAE): −1.76%
Bars from: public daily bars

IBS on SPY and QQQ

QQQ · IBS on SPY and QQQ

The trade

Result

Entry and exit

Path while held

Notes