I Posted Wrong Data. Here’s What Actually Happened.
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: BEAR
Total signals: 9
Longs: 0
Shorts: 9
Tickers: LAD, EXP, ZBRA, LEN.B, ALK, POOL, CHE, RACE, CSGP
I only took two of them — ALK and CSGP.
Why only two out of nine?
Position sizing. With €1,000 and a 15% risk-per-trade rule, I can only run a few positions at once before I’m overexposed. Nine signals doesn’t mean nine trades — it means nine candidates. The sizing rules decide how many actually get taken.
Most trading content glosses over this. Having a signal is not the same as having a trade. With a small account, you’re always choosing between signals. That’s not a bug in the system — it’s the discipline.
The scanner bug gets fixed. The sizing rules stay.
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