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