KISS Sprint Log — Sprint 1 Closed: 20 Trades, 100% Compliance
Two trades made the sprint. Eighteen kept me in it. Here is the full record.
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SPRINT 1 IS CLOSED
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The last two carried-over positions closed this week — ZION on 20 July,
CAKE on 28 July. Both on the earnings rule. That finalises Sprint 1.
→ Trades logged: 20 / 20
→ Process compliance: 100%
→ Sprint R: +6.9R
→ LVTD saves: 15
→ Designed −1R losses: 1
→ Verdict: PASS — graduate to Level 1 live at 0.50% risk
The sprint was never about the R. Graduation is gated on compliance,
not profit. But the R distribution tells you something important about
how this system actually makes money, and it is worth showing.
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THE TWO TRADES THAT MADE THE SPRINT
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CAKE — The Cheesecake Factory
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→ Entry: $66.45 (6 June) · Stop: $63.00 · 1R = $3.45
→ Sold 50% at +2R ($73.35), stop moved to breakeven
→ Final exit: $89.00 (28 July) — earnings rule
→ Result: +6.54R on the second half · Blended +4.27R
→ Held: 52 sessions
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ZION — Zions Bancorporation
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→ Entry: $65.42 (10 June) · Stop: $63.19 · 1R = $2.23
→ Sold 50% at +2R ($69.88), stop moved to breakeven
→ Final exit: $71.75 (20 July) — earnings rule
→ Result: +2.84R on the second half · Blended +2.42R
→ Held: 40 sessions
Together: +6.69R. The other eighteen trades netted roughly +0.2R
combined.
Read that again. Two trades out of twenty produced essentially the
entire result. The other eighteen — fifteen LVTD saves, one designed
−1R, two no-fills — did their job by costing almost nothing while I
waited for these two to develop.
That is not an accident of this particular sprint. That is the shape
of trend-following. Most trades are noise. A few are everything. The
system’s entire purpose is to keep the noise cheap enough that you are
still standing when the few arrive.
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WHAT THE TWO WINNERS HAD IN COMMON
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Both entered with the LVTD gate CONFIRMED.
Fifteen of the other trades exited on a failed volume read — the gate
firing at 15:45 ET, mandatory market sell at 15:55. Those fifteen
averaged close to breakeven. The two that had institutional volume at
entry were the two that were held overnight, and the two that ran.
The gate does not block winners. It sorts them. When volume confirms,
you hold and the trade has room to work. When it does not, you exit at
a fraction of −1R and move on. Fifteen small exits bought the right to
hold two positions for 40 and 52 sessions.
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WHAT THE RULES COST
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Both winners were closed on the earnings rule — a mandatory market sell
in the session before the announcement, regardless of where price sits.
CAKE opened roughly 13% higher the next morning.
That is real money left behind, and there is no honest way to dress it
up. But the rule is not a prediction — it is insurance against a
distribution I cannot assess. The same position could have opened −20%,
and then this section would be about giving back half of a +6.5R trade
in a single morning.
I paid roughly 3R of potential upside as the premium. The premium is
known in advance. That is what makes it a rule and not a decision.
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THE ONE DESIGNED LOSS
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Trade #4 — BIIB, 18 June. Entry triggered, hit the stop the same
session, LVTD Failed. Exactly −1R.
One clean −1R in twenty trades. Not because I got lucky, but because
the Retest Shield sits under structure and never moves. When price goes
through it, you lose one R. Not two. Not “I’ll give it room.”
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WHAT COMES NEXT
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Sprint 2 is already running — 30 trades at Level 1 live capital, 0.50%
risk per trade. Same rules, real money, same public log.
It has been harder. Seven trades in, compliance is still 100%, but the
R is negative and every fill so far has been an LVTD save or a designed
stop-out. The tape has been producing structurally clean breakouts that
institutions are not funding.
Which is precisely what Sprint 1 taught me to expect. Most trades are
noise. You keep the noise cheap and you wait.
The full Sprint 2 tracker is public and updated after every fill.
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GO DEEPER
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