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Trade

IEX · v2b-TOM on Alpaca paper

Opened Oct 20, 2026, closed Oct 21, 2026, in DAILY.

The trade

Account: DAILY
Strategy: v2b-TOM on Alpaca paper
Book: v2b-tom
Symbol: IEX
Asset class: equity
Side: long
Exposure: long
Status: closed
Opened: Oct 20, 2026
Closed: Oct 21, 2026
Quantity: 9
Entry price: 233.045
Exit price: 235.23
Exit by: close>sma_exit
Book value at entry: $97,854.44

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.

Result

Entry value: $2,097.40
Exit value: $2,117.07
P&L: +$19.66
Dividends: $0.00
P&L with dividends: +$19.66
Costs: $0.13
Net P&L: +$19.54
Return: +0.94%
Of the book: +2.0 bp
R multiple: —
Held: 1 session

Entry and exit

Role	Date	At (ET)	Side	Qty	Asked	Price	Rule's price	Close	Slippage	Against the close	How	Why	The rule's numbers
entry	Oct 20, 2026	15:59 ET	buy	9	9	233.045	232.054993	233.160004	+42.7 bp	−4.9 bp	signal	entry rank 4 rsi 5.4	19 trigger numbers adv 131043134.71984863 rsi 5.399815317353795 rank 4 close 232.05499267578125 spy_sma 722.7784155273438 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 235.30099792480468 tradable true raw_close 232.05499267578125 sma_trend 212.856611328125 spy_close 768.219970703125 trend_sma 200 candidates 7 core_is_on true free_slots 7 exit_signal false entry_signal true rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:59:03 sleeve pullback netting buys 18 sells 0 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 18 side buy filled 18 status filled at_limit 0 at_market 18 avg_price 233.04499999999996 bp_vs_close −4.932392361601812 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-20 15:40:05-04:00 final_close_agrees null
exit	Oct 21, 2026	15:59 ET	sell	9	9	235.23	234.904999	235.429993	−13.8 bp	+8.5 bp	signal	close>sma_exit	19 trigger numbers adv 134676156.3659668 rsi 64.17452372260776 close 234.90499877929688 spy_sma 723.2344412231446 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 234.77900085449218 tradable true raw_close 234.90499877929688 sma_trend 213.14491439819335 spy_close 772.7650146484375 trend_sma 200 candidates 1 core_is_on true free_slots 11 exit_signal true entry_signal false held_sessions 1 rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:59:01 sleeve pullback netting buys 0 sells 18 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 18 side sell filled 18 status filled at_limit 0 at_market 18 avg_price 235.22999999999996 bp_vs_close 8.494783247804394 orders_sent 4 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-21 15:40:46-04:00 final_close_agrees null

Path while held

Span: 1 session
High: 235.919998 on Oct 21, 2026
Low: 233.410004 on Oct 21, 2026
Best point (MFE): +1.23%
Worst point (MAE): 0.00%
Bars from: public daily bars

Notes

v2b-TOM: v2b, its SPY core also held through the turn of the month