Building a Trading System as an IT Guy I build systems for a living. Most of my day is spent on uptime, redundancy, and logical flows. When I started trading, I looked for the same things. I did not want a gut feeling or a ‘hunch’ based on a Twitter thread. I wanted a set…
🟡 MIXED regime — Week of 2026-04-11 Scanner found 74 actionable signals from 5,262 tickers. WB-PULL: 73 long signals — 6-week time exit. No margin required. WB-SHORT: 1 short signal — margin required. Exit on EMA10 break. 74+ signals this week — sizing rules determine which get taken. Position sizing limits entries to 2-3 per…
🔴 BEAR regime — Week of 2026-04-04 Scanner found 1 actionable signal (1 short) from 46,572 tickers. 📉 Short Signals (1) Ticker Score Tier Entry Stop Shares Cost (€) LEN.B 53 TIER 2 $86.28 $115.59 +34.0% 1 sh 79.89€ Entry: Monday open. Size: 20% account (longs) / 15% (shorts). Trade Like a Pirate ☠️ 📈…
The market update I posted on March 20 was wrong. The scanner returned 0 signals. I posted it. Turns out the scanner had a bug — a filter that was too aggressive in bear regime conditions. I caught it a few days later when I ran the corrected version. Corrected result for March 23: Regime:…
SPY closed Friday at $669. EMA10 at $675. EMA20 at $674. Bear regime. Scanner ran 5,261 tickers and found nothing that qualified. Some traders hunt for something to do in markets like this. Tweak a parameter, lower a threshold, convince themselves a setup is “close enough.” That’s not how this works. The WB-IPO system has…
Most traders look at charts after something happens. I’m trying to find them before. The setup I look for is clear on a chart. The EMAs — 5, 10, and 20 period — need to be tight, aligned in order, and starting to rise. When those three conditions line up, a stock is telling you…
Twenty years of poker. Not as a hobby — as income. I got an engineering degree, built a career in automation and IT, but poker stayed. The edge. The extra income. The game I understood better than most people in the room. Poker has a ceiling. The stress, the hours, the variance — you can…