PFG, 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 on Alpaca paper
Book: v2b
Symbol: PFG
Asset class: equity
Side: long
Exposure: long
Status: closed
Opened: Oct 5, 2026
Closed: Oct 15, 2026
Quantity: 19
Entry price: 111.0608
Exit price: 108.86
Exit by: close>sma_exit
Book value at entry: $100,632.15

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: $2,110.16
Exit value: $2,068.34
P&L: −$41.82
Dividends: $0.00
P&L with dividends: −$41.82
Costs: $0.27
Net P&L: −$42.08
Return: −1.98%
Of the book: −4.2 bp
R multiple: —
Held: 8 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	15:59 ET	buy	19	19	111.060789	111.324997	111.029999	−23.7 bp	+2.8 bp	signal	entry rank 5 rsi 7.2	19 trigger numbers adv 142011872.48840332 rsi 7.201195350461966 rank 5 close 111.32499694824219 spy_sma 717.5597863769531 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 112.29099884033204 tradable true raw_close 111.32499694824219 sma_trend 100.41063442230225 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 15:59:02 sleeve pullback netting buys 38 sells 0 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 38 side buy filled 38 status filled at_limit 37 at_market 1 avg_price 111.06078947368422 bp_vs_close 2.773186951803286 orders_sent 3 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-05 15:40:33-04:00 final_close_agrees null
exit	Oct 15, 2026	15:55 ET	sell	19	19	108.86	108.315002	108.959999	−50.3 bp	+9.2 bp	signal	close>sma_exit	19 trigger numbers adv 139297246.86203003 rsi 73.04808239271657 close 108.31500244140625 spy_sma 721.4716458129883 exit_sma 5 sma_exit 107.65899963378907 tradable true raw_close 108.31500244140625 sma_trend 101.25585430145264 spy_close 772.1900024414062 trend_sma 200 candidates 21 core_is_on true free_slots 5 exit_signal true entry_signal false held_sessions 8 rsi_entry_below 10 max_hold_sessions 10 8 numbers time 15:55:43 sleeve pullback netting buys 0 sells 38 crossed 0 met_inside false under_price 0 account_order sent 38 side sell filled 38 status filled at_limit 38 at_market 0 avg_price 108.86000000000001 bp_vs_close 9.177595935470073 orders_sent 1 snapshot_last_bar 2026-10-15 15:40:27-04:00 final_close_agrees null

Span: 8 sessions
High: 111.860001 on Oct 6, 2026
Low: 106.07 on Oct 14, 2026
Best point (MFE): +0.72%
Worst point (MAE): −4.49%
Bars from: public daily bars

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

PFG · v2b on Alpaca paper

The trade

Result

Entry and exit

Path while held

Notes