MMM, Oct 2, 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: v2b-TOM on Alpaca paper
Book: v2b-tom
Symbol: MMM
Asset class: equity
Side: long
Exposure: long
Status: closed
Opened: Oct 2, 2026
Closed: Oct 6, 2026
Quantity: 13
Entry price: 161.67
Exit price: 164.04
Exit by: close>sma_exit
Book value at entry: $100,004.42

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: $2,101.71
Exit value: $2,132.52
P&L: +$30.81
Dividends: $0.00
P&L with dividends: +$30.81
Costs: $0.18
Net P&L: +$30.63
Return: +1.47%
Of the book: +3.1 bp
R multiple: —
Held: 2 sessions

Role	Date	At (ET)	Side	Qty	Asked	Price	Rule's price	Close	Slippage	Against the close	How	Why	The rule's numbers
entry	Oct 2, 2026	15:55 ET	buy	13	13	161.67	161.625793	161.889999	+2.7 bp	−13.6 bp	signal	entry rank 5 rsi 2.7	19 trigger numbers adv 486557546.7681885 rsi 2.7413262835364085 rank 5 close 161.62579345703125 spy_sma 717.0400286865234 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 165.35315856933593 tradable true raw_close 161.62579345703125 sma_trend 159.46190353393555 spy_close 769.7750244140625 trend_sma 200 candidates 19 core_is_on true free_slots 6 exit_signal false entry_signal true rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:55:47 sleeve pullback netting buys 26 sells 0 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 26 side buy filled 26 status filled at_limit 26 at_market 0 avg_price 161.67000000000002 bp_vs_close −13.589436684036116 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-02 15:40:36-04:00 final_close_agrees null
exit	Oct 6, 2026	15:55 ET	sell	13	13	164.04	163.774994	163.639999	−16.2 bp	−24.4 bp	signal	close>sma_exit	19 trigger numbers adv 487293873.25286865 rsi 63.00347199772036 close 163.77499389648438 spy_sma 718.1327926635743 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 163.2049987792969 tradable true raw_close 163.77499389648438 sma_trend 159.49382209777832 spy_close 779.7150268554688 trend_sma 200 candidates 3 core_is_on true free_slots 3 exit_signal true entry_signal false held_sessions 2 rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:55:30 sleeve pullback netting buys 0 sells 26 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 26 side sell filled 26 status filled at_limit 26 at_market 0 avg_price 164.04 bp_vs_close −24.443938636244944 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-06 15:39:57-04:00 final_close_agrees null

Span: 2 sessions
High: 164.300003 on Oct 6, 2026
Low: 159.919998 on Oct 5, 2026
Best point (MFE): +1.63%
Worst point (MAE): −1.08%
Bars from: public daily bars

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

MMM · v2b-TOM on Alpaca paper

The trade

Result

Entry and exit

Path while held

Notes