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crypto-scalp-v1 · Paper Main

paper-main · paper · Trading mode: live · performance →

Fast hourly Donchian breakout: buys a new 20-hour high with a tight +3%/2% profit-lock trail, exits on a new 10-hour low or the stop, 2-day cap. Same momentum idea as the trend strategy but quick — it exists to turn over fast and build a sample.

Other strategies here:vwap-mr-v1orb-retest-v1qsrwheel-v1crypto-trend-v1crypto-revert-v1crypto-tape-v1rsi2-v1

Risk sizing overrides

Values here override the matching global constant in src/risk/rules.ts for THIS account only.

Field Applies to What it means On a $10,000 account
Risk per trade % ONE stock, one trade How much $ you're OK losing if THAT trade's stop-loss gets hit. The system works backward from this to pick how many shares to buy. 0.5% → sized so a stop-out on any one stock loses about $50.
Max notional % ONE stock, one trade (same one — not the whole account) A separate hard ceiling on that SAME stock's total position value (shares × price), computed once before any tranche-splitting (e.g. qsr's anchor+runner legs just divide this one total, they don't each get their own cap). Exists because a very tight stop can otherwise math its way into buying far more shares than makes sense. 8% → that one stock's position can never be worth more than $800 total, no matter what Risk per trade % alone would size it to.
Daily kill switch % The WHOLE account, not one stock Once today's total P&L across everything drops to this % of account value, NEW trades stop for the rest of the day. Positions already open are untouched. -2% → new entries pause for the day once you're down about $200 today.

All three are % of account equity (cash + market value of whatever's currently open) — deliberately not free cash, since cash alone shrinks whenever money's tied up in open trades and would understate real risk mid-session. Every % field below shows a live $ estimate against this account's current equity ($101,944.15) — edit the number to see it update.

▾ crypto-scalp-v1

✓ Can buy — nothing currently blocking new entries in this pool.

When checked, this pool's trading script builds the order plan as usual but stops short of submitting it, queuing it on /approvals instead. Nothing gets bought for this strategy without you clicking Approve.

▾ Per-strategy config


▾ Per-buy config

Governs ONE stock’s buy at a time — how big it is, and (for QSR) how often the same ticker can be re-bought. Every stock gets its own independent counters. Nothing here limits how many DIFFERENT stocks are bought; that’s the per-strategy config above (pot, open positions, buys per day).

Example: ADA/USD at its live price of $0.24 — this config buys:
with a 5% stop → 256.581664 units ($60.86 buy value, risking $3.04) — limited by max buy value 2% of pot.
with the widest stop the strategy allows (15%) — the smallest buy it will ever make → 256.581664 units ($60.86 buy value, risking $9.13) — limited by max buy value 2% of pot.
Updates as you edit the pot %, risk %, value cap % and max shares fields — the number shown is what a save would produce.

▾ Profit-lock trail — this strategy, this account

Arms once a buy is up by the arm %, then keeps a stop trail % below the running peak (ratchets up, never down). Off unless switched on here. Evidence: pnpm backtest:crypto-trail. Applies to NEW entries only.