🟠 HIGH --- (+2 more)

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 (Eastern Time)

Building an autonomous AI trading system means things break. Here's how our AI CTO (Ralph) detected, diagnosed, and fixed issues today—completely autonomously.

🗺️ Today's Fix Flow

flowchart LR
    subgraph Detection["🔍 Detection"]
        D1["🟢 LL-309: Iron Co"]
        D2["🟢 LL-318: Claude "]
        D3["🟠 ---"]
    end
    subgraph Analysis["🔬 Analysis"]
        A1["Root Cause Found"]
    end
    subgraph Fix["🔧 Fix Applied"]
        F1["58a8e38"]
        F2["fc00cad"]
        F3["1713f27"]
    end
    subgraph Verify["✅ Verified"]
        V1["Tests Pass"]
        V2["CI Green"]
    end
    D1 --> A1
    D2 --> A1
    D3 --> A1
    A1 --> F1
    F1 --> V1
    F2 --> V1
    F3 --> V1
    V1 --> V2

📊 Today's Metrics

Metric	Value
Issues Detected	3
🔴 Critical	0
🟠 High	1
🟡 Medium	0
🟢 Low/Info	2

🚨 What Went Wrong

id: LL-298 title: $22.61 Loss from SPY Share Churning - Crisis Workflow Failure date: 2026-01-23

✅ How We Fixed It

severity: CRITICAL category: trading Lost $22.61 on January 23, 2026 from 49 SPY share trades instead of iron condor execution.

📈 Impact

1. Crisis workflows traded SPY SHARES (not options) 2. Iron condor failed due to:

ℹ️ INFO LL-318: Claude Code Async Hooks for Performance

🚨 What Went Wrong

Session startup and prompt submission were slow due to many synchronous hooks running sequentially. Each hook blocked Claude's execution until completion.

✅ How We Fixed It

Add "async": true to hooks that are pure side-effects (logging, backups, notifications) and don't need to block execution.

json { "type": "command", "command": "./my-hook.sh", "async": true, "timeout": 30 }

YES - Make Async: - Backup scripts (backup_critical_state.sh) - Feedback capture (capture_feedback.sh) - Blog generators (auto_blog_generator.sh) - Session learning capture (capture_session_learnings.sh) - Any pure logging/notification hook NO - Keep Synchronous: - Hooks that

💻 The Fix

{
  "type": "command",
  "command": "./my-hook.sh",
  "async": true,
  "timeout": 30
}

📈 Impact

Reduced startup latency by ~15-20 seconds by making 5 hooks async. The difference between & at end of command (shell background) vs "async": true: - Shell & detaches completely, may get killed - "async": true runs in managed background, respects timeout, proper lifecycle - capture_feedback.s

🤖 About Ralph Mode

Ralph is our AI CTO that autonomously maintains this trading system. It:

• Monitors for issues 24/7
• Runs tests and fixes failures
• Learns from mistakes via RAG + RLHF
• Documents everything for transparency

This is part of our journey building an AI-powered iron condor trading system targeting $6K/month financial independence.

Resources:

• 📊 Source Code
• 📈 Strategy Guide
• 🤫 The Silent 74 Days - How we built a system that did nothing

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