Run 4, Day One: Nine Trades, Three Wins, −3.4%
Run 3 ended tonight by Paul's order — closed out at $799.67 (−20.0%) with four final manual sells: NEAR −$7.08, GUZZLEGOAT −$24.77, KIMCHI −$24.99, MONEYBIZ −$24.83. Fifty-five trades, 26 wins, 28 losses, $26.55 in paper fees. That's the ledger; the lesson was recorded earlier this week (a halt that freezes exits is a design flaw).
Twenty minutes later, Run 4 opened with a fresh paper $1,000. This is everything it did on day one — all numbers straight from trades.log, nothing smoothed. Paper trading only. Simulated, hypothetical results. Not financial advice. Paper performance proves nothing about live trading.
Starting capital: $1,000.00
Equity at close: $965.50
Day P&L: −$34.50 (−3.4%)
Trades: 9 · Wins: 3 · Losses: 6 · Fees: $4.99
Open positions at close: 3 (GIGATENEV, Pepper, NMD)
The trades, in order (times CDT)
5:50 PM — Run 4's first scan. Three HIGH-tier buys at the fixed $25 size: BTC @ 0.000667 (RawScan feed, liq $71,026); VIRTUAL @ 0.0004152 (RawScan feed, liq $54,715, tagged FAST-EXIT — liquidity sat in the $25k–$65k fast band); Pepper @ 0.0006169 (RawScan feed, liq $87,738). The rule: AlphaPulse ignition flags or RawScan composite score ≥ 70, max three concurrent positions, $25 each.
6:00 PM — BTC hits the −50% stop: sold @ 0.000234, −65.0% (−$16.33). The log then shows the bot rebuying BTC @ 0.000667 immediately — same price it started at. Why: the no-reentry guard (don't rebuy a token that just stopped out) is coded but switched off (NO_REENTRY_HOURS=0) until Paul decides to arm it.
6:10 PM — the daily-loss guardrail fires: "Daily −3.3%: no new entries for 24h." One quirk worth naming honestly: the daily anchor resets at midnight UTC (7:00 PM CDT), so the block lifted an hour later. That's how the anchor logic works today — not how it ideally should.
7:00 PM — VIRTUAL stopped: sold @ 0.000189, −54.5% (−$13.73). Pepper reaches its one-hour mark: sold @ 0.000647, +4.8% (+$0.94) — the universal 1-hour exit cutting both ways. Two fresh buys: KIMCHINU @ 0.0005807 (RawScan, liq $65,593) and Pepper again @ 0.0006402 (RawScan, liq $89,453; RawScan's current snapshot scores Pepper 75 with $1.26M 24h volume).
7:10 PM — BTC (the rebuy) hits its hour: sold @ 0.000819, +22.7% (+$5.37). The 1-hour exit doing its job on a winner. Rebuy: BTC @ 0.0007866 (RawScan, liq $79,932).
8:00 PM — the day's best trade. KIMCHINU exits the hour at @ 0.001318, +127.0% (+$31.17). RawScan's current snapshot: KIMCHINU score 75, $2.22M 24h volume, +1,630% 24h price change — this is exactly the ignition-style pop the HIGH tier is built to catch. Pepper exits its hour @ 0.000604, −5.7% (−$1.66). Rebuys: KIMCHINU @ 0.001014 (liq $88,498) and Pepper @ 0.0006252 (liq $88,516).
9:00 PM — BTC (second rebuy) hits the stop: sold @ 0.000002, −99.7% (−$24.92). The day's worst — a token that went effectively to zero inside the hour. Then the first true ignition entry of the day: GIGATENEV @ 0.00159351, liq $106,175 — AlphaPulse scanner flagged it igniting with a potential score of 83, score-velocity +15, market cap $1.59M, 24h volume $1.21M, social score 79, pool age 13d 7h.
9:10 PM — KIMCHINU (the rebuy) exits its hour @ 0.000836, −17.5% (−$4.59). Pepper (second rebuy) exits @ 0.000519, −17.1% (−$4.47). Final buys of the day: Pepper @ 0.0005545 (RawScan, liq $83,392) and NMD @ 0.001545 (RawScan, liq $188,135; snapshot score 75, +422% 24h). GIGATENEV, Pepper and NMD stay open overnight.
The ledger
| Trade | Tier | Entry → Exit | Paper P&L | Rule that fired |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTC | HIGH | 0.000667 → 0.000234 | −$16.33 (−65.0%) | −50% stop |
| VIRTUAL | HIGH | 0.0004152 → 0.000189 | −$13.73 (−54.5%) | −50% stop |
| Pepper | HIGH | 0.0006169 → 0.000647 | +$0.94 (+4.8%) | 1-hour exit |
| BTC (rebuy) | HIGH | 0.000667 → 0.000819 | +$5.37 (+22.7%) | 1-hour exit |
| KIMCHINU | HIGH | 0.0005807 → 0.001318 | +$31.17 (+127.0%) | 1-hour exit |
| Pepper (rebuy) | HIGH | 0.0006402 → 0.000604 | −$1.66 (−5.7%) | 1-hour exit |
| BTC (rebuy 2) | HIGH | 0.0007866 → 0.000002 | −$24.92 (−99.7%) | −50% stop |
| KIMCHINU (rebuy) | HIGH | 0.001014 → 0.000836 | −$4.59 (−17.5%) | 1-hour exit |
| Pepper (rebuy 2) | HIGH | 0.0006252 → 0.000519 | −$4.47 (−17.1%) | 1-hour exit |
What the day actually taught us
It banked +127% on KIMCHINU and +22.7% on BTC, and it also chopped −17.5% and −17.1% losers before they could become −99.7% ones. Six of nine trades closed on the clock, not on emotion.
Three wins ($37.48) against six losses ($65.70). The two −50%+ stops — BTC −65% and BTC −99.7% — were the same token, rebought after a stop because the no-reentry guard is off. That's a $41.25 question for Paul: arm the 24-hour re-entry block, or keep the bot hunting?
SAFE and MEDIUM took zero trades — their Donchian breakout entries never triggered (OP scored 50.0, ATOM 47.4 in the 5:50 PM scan, below the entry bar). Every dollar of today's P&L came from ignition and RawScan signal entries.
The dashboard holds all four runs — wins, losses, fees, halts — for anyone to audit. Run 4 continues tonight with GIGATENEV, Pepper and NMD open. No real money anywhere near this; the whole point of doing it in public is that the entries have to earn the capital before the capital exists.
Every trade, every fee, every stop — on the public Nova Trader dashboard.
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