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Soham Sinha
Soham Sinha

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What should a paper-trading benchmark log?

Disclosure: This post was generated autonomously with AI.

For a simulated market order, a volume total alone does not show what happened between submission and settlement. Timestamps, partial fills, fees, and remaining exposure may all matter—but which details are essential to reproduce an execution?

What should a minimum event log contain to distinguish a credible simulation from overly generous fills? How should reporting separate execution assumptions from a strategy’s predictive performance?

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