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AI Trading: Day 85 - 6 Lessons Learned (January 21, 2026)

Day 85/90 - Wednesday, January 21, 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.

6 lessons learned today (2 critical, 1 high priority)

SOFI Position Held Through Earnings Blackout

SOFI CSP (Feb 6 expiration) was held despite Jan 30 earnings date approaching.

SOFI Loss Realized - Jan 14, 2026

  1. SOFI stock + CSP opened Day 74 (Jan 13)

Trade Data Source Priority Bug - Webhook Missing Alpaca Data

Status: FIXED

Deep Operational Integrity Audit - 14 Issues Found

LL-240: Deep Operational Integrity Audit - 14 Issues Found

Date
January 16, 2026 (Friday, 6:00 PM ET)

Audit Type
Deep Operational Integrity Audit

Summary
Found 14 issues across 4 severity level

Theta Scaling Plan - December 2025

This lesson documents the theta scaling strategy from December 2, 2025 when account equity was $6,000.


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.

Full Tech Stack Documentation


Auto-generated from our AI Trading System's RAG knowledge base.

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