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Trade

NWSA · v2b on Alpaca paper

Opened Oct 28, 2026, closed Nov 2, 2026, in DAILY.

The trade

Account: DAILY
Strategy: v2b on Alpaca paper
Book: v2b
Symbol: NWSA
Asset class: equity
Side: long
Exposure: long
Status: closed
Opened: Oct 28, 2026
Closed: Nov 2, 2026
Quantity: 73
Entry price: 29.32
Exit price: 29.71
Exit by: close>sma_exit
Book value at entry: $98,323.33

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: $2,140.36
Exit value: $2,168.83
P&L: +$28.47
Dividends: $0.00
P&L with dividends: +$28.47
Costs: $1.02
Net P&L: +$27.45
Return: +1.33%
Of the book: +2.9 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 28, 2026	15:55 ET	buy	73	73	29.32	29.205	29.309999	+39.4 bp	+3.4 bp	signal	entry rank 4 rsi 4.2	19 trigger numbers adv 99804373.24295044 rsi 4.249176842612195 rank 4 close 29.204999923706055 spy_sma 725.2180703735352 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 30.31699981689453 tradable true raw_close 29.204999923706055 sma_trend 26.780669717788697 spy_close 770.7550048828125 trend_sma 200 candidates 28 core_is_on true free_slots 5 exit_signal false entry_signal true rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:55:19 sleeve pullback netting buys 146 sells 0 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 146 side buy filled 146 status filled at_limit 146 at_market 0 avg_price 29.32 bp_vs_close 3.4119871169702165 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-28 15:40:38-04:00 final_close_agrees null
exit	Nov 2, 2026	15:55 ET	sell	73	73	29.71	29.66	29.690001	−16.9 bp	−6.7 bp	signal	close>sma_exit	19 trigger numbers adv 99804373.24295044 rsi 66.17447925919583 close 29.65999984741211 spy_sma 726.3113635253907 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 29.502000045776366 tradable true raw_close 29.65999984741211 sma_trend 26.82474962234497 spy_close 752.301025390625 trend_sma 200 candidates 16 core_is_on true free_slots 5 exit_signal true entry_signal false held_sessions 3 rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:55:11 sleeve pullback netting buys 0 sells 146 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 146 side sell filled 146 status filled at_limit 146 at_market 0 avg_price 29.709999999999997 bp_vs_close −6.736094840900098 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-11-02 15:40:52-05:00 final_close_agrees null

Path while held

Span: 3 sessions
High: 29.915001 on Nov 2, 2026
Low: 29.08 on Oct 30, 2026
Best point (MFE): +2.03%
Worst point (MAE): −0.82%
Bars from: public daily bars

Notes

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