IQV, 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 on Alpaca paper
Book: v2b
Symbol: IQV
Asset class: equity
Side: long
Exposure: long
Status: closed
Opened: Oct 2, 2026
Closed: Oct 5, 2026
Quantity: 8
Entry price: 258.87
Exit price: 266.5063
Exit by: close>sma_exit
Book value at entry: $100,018.97

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: $2,070.96
Exit value: $2,132.05
P&L: +$61.09
Dividends: $0.00
P&L with dividends: +$61.09
Costs: $0.11
Net P&L: +$60.98
Return: +2.95%
Of the book: +6.1 bp
R multiple: —
Held: 1 session

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	15:56 ET	buy	8	8	258.87	258.869995	258.209991	+0.0 bp	+25.6 bp	signal	entry rank 4 rsi 2.4	19 trigger numbers adv 310625939.6469116 rsi 2.4247768829608347 rank 4 close 258.8699951171875 spy_sma 717.0400286865234 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 265.67999877929685 tradable true raw_close 258.8699951171875 sma_trend 205.8360496520996 spy_close 769.7750244140625 trend_sma 200 candidates 20 core_is_on true free_slots 7 exit_signal false entry_signal true rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:56:08 sleeve pullback netting buys 16 sells 0 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 16 side buy filled 16 status filled at_limit 16 at_market 0 avg_price 258.87 bp_vs_close 25.560921992311414 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-02 15:40:36-04:00 final_close_agrees null
exit	Oct 5, 2026	15:59 ET	sell	8	8	266.50625	265.339996	266.089996	−44.0 bp	−15.6 bp	signal	close>sma_exit	19 trigger numbers adv 315821147.5341797 rsi 67.24377982136593 close 265.3399963378906 spy_sma 717.5597863769531 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 264.4219970703125 tradable true raw_close 265.3399963378906 sma_trend 206.0510496520996 spy_close 775.7100219726562 trend_sma 200 candidates 8 core_is_on true free_slots 9 exit_signal true entry_signal false held_sessions 1 rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:59:02 sleeve pullback netting buys 0 sells 16 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 16 side sell filled 16 status filled at_limit 0 at_market 16 avg_price 266.50625 bp_vs_close −15.643341269426791 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-05 15:40:33-04:00 final_close_agrees null

Span: 1 session
High: 266.910004 on Oct 5, 2026
Low: 258.649994 on Oct 5, 2026
Best point (MFE): +3.11%
Worst point (MAE): −0.08%
Bars from: public daily bars

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

IQV · v2b on Alpaca paper

The trade

Result

Entry and exit

Path while held

Notes