VRTX, Oct 5, 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: VRTX
Asset class: equity
Side: long
Exposure: long
Status: closed
Opened: Oct 5, 2026
Closed: Oct 7, 2026
Quantity: 4
Entry price: 504.17
Exit price: 505.79
Exit by: close>sma_exit
Book value at entry: $100,586.54

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: $2,016.68
Exit value: $2,023.16
P&L: +$6.48
Dividends: $0.00
P&L with dividends: +$6.48
Costs: $0.06
Net P&L: +$6.42
Return: +0.32%
Of the book: +0.6 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 5, 2026	15:55 ET	buy	4	4	504.17	504.015015	503.50	+3.1 bp	+13.3 bp	signal	entry rank 2 rsi 2.6	19 trigger numbers adv 564289136.0107422 rsi 2.628243846268783 rank 2 close 504.0150146484375 spy_sma 717.5597863769531 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 513.0049987792969 tradable true raw_close 504.0150146484375 sma_trend 473.8634248352051 spy_close 775.7100219726562 trend_sma 200 candidates 8 core_is_on true free_slots 9 exit_signal false entry_signal true rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:55:06 sleeve pullback netting buys 8 sells 0 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 8 side buy filled 8 status filled at_limit 8 at_market 0 avg_price 504.17 bp_vs_close 13.306852035750438 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-05 15:40:33-04:00 final_close_agrees null
exit	Oct 7, 2026	15:59 ET	sell	4	4	505.79	504.809998	505.640015	−19.4 bp	−3.0 bp	signal	close>sma_exit	19 trigger numbers adv 550439289.5507812 rsi 52.54202989207713 close 504.80999755859375 spy_sma 718.6676669311523 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 504.4179992675781 tradable true raw_close 504.80999755859375 sma_trend 474.4119497680664 spy_close 776.8499145507812 trend_sma 200 candidates 4 core_is_on true free_slots 5 exit_signal true entry_signal false held_sessions 2 rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:59:03 sleeve pullback netting buys 0 sells 8 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 8 side sell filled 8 status filled at_limit 0 at_market 8 avg_price 505.79 bp_vs_close −2.9662476706238117 orders_sent 2 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-07 15:37:30-04:00 final_close_agrees null

Span: 2 sessions
High: 511.470001 on Oct 7, 2026
Low: 496.329987 on Oct 6, 2026
Best point (MFE): +1.45%
Worst point (MAE): −1.56%
Bars from: public daily bars

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

VRTX · v2b-TOM on Alpaca paper

The trade

Result

Entry and exit

Path while held

Notes