Day 77/90 - Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Today was a wake-up call. Two critical issues surfaced that could have derailed our entire trading operation. Here's what went wrong and how we're fixing it.
25 lessons learned today (11 critical, 6 high priority)
Alpaca Does NOT Support Trailing Stops for Options
Result: All option positions were UNPROTECTED, violating Phil Town Rule #1.
Trade Gateway Rule 1 Enforcement Fixed
Trade gateway only blocked BUY orders when P/L was negative. But short puts (SELL orders on options) also increase risk and were bypassing the Rule
Three More Missing Test Files Blocking CI
CI workflow failing because these test files referenced in ci.yml do not exist:
Lesson LL-158: Day 74 Emergency Fix - SPY to SOFI
Day 74/90 with $0 profit in paper account. System was blocking all trades.
Phil Town Rule 1 Violated - Lost $17.94 on Jan 13
Phil Town Rule
Tech Stack Behind the Scenes
Our AI trading system uses:
- Claude Opus 4.5 - Primary reasoning engine for trade decisions
- OpenRouter - Cost-optimized LLM gateway (DeepSeek, Mistral, Kimi)
- Vertex AI RAG - Cloud semantic search with 768D embeddings
- Gemini 2.0 Flash - Retrieval-augmented generation
- MCP Protocol - Standardized tool integration layer
Every lesson is stored in our RAG corpus, enabling the system to learn from past mistakes and improve continuously.
Auto-generated from our AI Trading System's RAG knowledge base.
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