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Trade

GPC · v2b on Alpaca paper

Opened Oct 20, 2026, in DAILY.

The trade

Account: DAILY
Strategy: v2b on Alpaca paper
Book: v2b
Symbol: GPC
Asset class: equity
Side: long
Exposure: long
Status: open
Opened: Oct 20, 2026
Closed: —
Quantity: 17
Entry price: 123.454411
Exit price: —
Exit by: —
Book value at entry: $97,898.90

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.

Marked

Marked on: Oct 22, 2026
Price: 127.970001
Quantity: 17
Unrealized: +$76.77
Realized: $0.00
Dividends: $0.00
Held: 2

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	17	17	123.454411	123.455002	123.519997	−0.0 bp	−5.3 bp	signal	entry rank 3 rsi 5.4	19 trigger numbers adv 125724812.58544922 rsi 5.395556204181148 rank 3 close 123.45500183105469 spy_sma 722.7784155273438 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 130.5470001220703 tradable true raw_close 123.45500183105469 sma_trend 118.47107444763184 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 34 sells 0 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 34 side buy filled 34 status filled at_limit 0 at_market 34 avg_price 123.45441100000001 bp_vs_close −5.309718656802964 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-20 15:40:05-04:00 final_close_agrees null

Path while held

Span: 2 sessions
High: 128.315002 on Oct 22, 2026
Low: 120.580002 on Oct 21, 2026
Best point (MFE): +3.94%
Worst point (MAE): −2.33%
Bars from: public daily bars

Notes

v2b: RSI(2) pullback in S&P 500 stocks, and SPY while above its 200-day average