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Trade

HUM · v2b on Alpaca paper

Opened Oct 29, 2026, closed Nov 3, 2026, in DAILY.

The trade

Account: DAILY
Strategy: v2b on Alpaca paper
Book: v2b
Symbol: HUM
Asset class: equity
Side: long
Exposure: long
Status: closed
Opened: Oct 29, 2026
Closed: Nov 3, 2026
Quantity: 5
Entry price: 415.955
Exit price: 417.60
Exit by: close>sma_exit
Book value at entry: $98,458.35

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: $2,079.78
Exit value: $2,088.00
P&L: +$8.22
Dividends: $4.42
P&L with dividends: +$12.65
Costs: $0.07
Net P&L: +$8.15
Return: +0.40%
Of the book: +0.8 bp
R multiple: —
Held: 3 sessions

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 29, 2026	15:59 ET	buy	5	5	415.955	411.959991	417.559998	+97.0 bp	−38.4 bp	signal	entry rank 7 rsi 8.6	19 trigger numbers adv 433287173.5839844 rsi 8.63054618918443 rank 7 close 411.9599914550781 spy_sma 725.6255322265625 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 415.5940002441406 tradable true raw_close 411.9599914550781 sma_trend 307.0473560333252 spy_close 768.3300170898438 trend_sma 200 candidates 9 core_is_on true free_slots 8 exit_signal false entry_signal true rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:59:05 sleeve pullback netting buys 10 sells 0 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 10 side buy filled 10 status filled at_limit 0 at_market 10 avg_price 415.95500000000004 bp_vs_close −38.43753156379637 orders_sent 2 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-29 15:40:08-04:00 final_close_agrees null
exit	Nov 3, 2026	15:59 ET	sell	5	5	417.60	417.570007	417.869995	−0.7 bp	+6.5 bp	signal	close>sma_exit	19 trigger numbers adv 427414413.50097656 rsi 72.79013566719736 close 417.57000732421875 spy_sma 726.6505358886719 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 414.03040771484376 tradable true raw_close 417.57000732421875 sma_trend 308.5195502471924 spy_close 754.3350219726562 trend_sma 200 candidates 6 core_is_on true free_slots 1 exit_signal true entry_signal false held_sessions 3 rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:59:04 sleeve pullback netting buys 0 sells 20 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 20 side sell filled 20 status filled at_limit 0 at_market 20 avg_price 417.6 bp_vs_close 6.461222876549266 orders_sent 3 snapshot_last_bar 2026-11-03 15:40:38-05:00 final_close_agrees null

Path while held

Span: 3 sessions
High: 422.649994 on Nov 3, 2026
Low: 399.350006 on Nov 2, 2026
Best point (MFE): +1.61%
Worst point (MAE): −3.99%
Bars from: public daily bars

Notes

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