Razor — Week 1 Performance Report

Performance Summary

Starting Capital

$10000.00

Deployable (ex-reserve)

Ending Capital

$10729.42

End of week

Net P&L

+$729.42

+7.29% on deployed capital

Profit Factor

2.96×

Won / Lost ratio

Win Rate

43.75%

7W / 9L of 16 trades

Best Trade

CRCL

+$285.28

Daily Equity Curve (Deployable Capital)

Trade Highlights

🏆 BEST TRADE — CRCL (LONG)
+$285.28

                Tue, Mar 17 → Tue, Mar 17 
                +9.01% on position

🚀 SCREENER CATCH — CRCL
+$285.28
Same-day intraday play surfaced by the Finviz top-gainers screener.
            Covered ~56% of the week's total gain in a single trade.

📉 FIRST SHORT — MRNA
-$85.87
Bearish sentiment was clear. Stock bounced immediately.
            Stop-loss contained the damage. System worked as designed.

Closed Trade Log

Symbol	Direction	Entry	Exit	Cost Basis	Revenue	P&L	Return
IREN	LONG	Tue, Mar 17	Tue, Mar 17	$3166.67	$3131.35	-$35.32	-1.12%
CRCL	LONG	Tue, Mar 17	Tue, Mar 17	$3166.67	$3451.95	+$285.28	+9.01%
NIO	LONG	Tue, Mar 17	Wed, Mar 18	$3166.67	$3129.43	-$37.24	-1.18%
BKSY	LONG	Wed, Mar 18	Wed, Mar 18	$3234.02	$3187.04	-$46.98	-1.45%
SEI	LONG	Wed, Mar 18	Wed, Mar 18	$3234.02	$3353.91	+$119.89	+3.71%
AAL	LONG	Wed, Mar 18	Wed, Mar 18	$3234.02	$3276.10	+$42.08	+1.30%
MRNA	SHORT	Thu, Mar 19	Thu, Mar 19	$3306.87	$3221.00	-$85.87	-2.60%
VIAV	LONG	Thu, Mar 19	Thu, Mar 19	$7455.70	$7737.43	+$281.73	+3.78%
NFLX	LONG	Thu, Mar 19	Thu, Mar 19	$3332.40	$3318.25	-$14.15	-0.42%
ZTO	LONG	Thu, Mar 19	Thu, Mar 19	$3270.38	$3400.57	+$130.19	+3.98%
GLW	LONG	Thu, Mar 19	Thu, Mar 19	$3332.40	$3364.31	+$31.91	+0.96%
DLO	LONG	Fri, Mar 20	Fri, Mar 20	$3379.23	$3336.08	-$43.15	-1.28%
SLB	LONG	Fri, Mar 20	Fri, Mar 20	$3379.23	$3344.15	-$35.08	-1.04%
AVGO	LONG	Fri, Mar 20	Fri, Mar 20	$3379.23	$3340.41	-$38.82	-1.15%
YSS	LONG	Fri, Mar 20	Fri, Mar 20	$3354.45	$3565.61	+$211.16	+6.30%
GEHC	LONG	Fri, Mar 20	Fri, Mar 20	$3354.45	$3318.52	-$35.93	-1.07%
TOTAL						+$729.42	+7.29%

Technical Challenges — Week 1

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Google News RSS Rate Limiting

Mid-week we discovered that Google silently returns empty responses when hit too fast — AXTI disappeared from the signal queue entirely despite fresh articles being <8 hours old. We added a per-symbol RSS cache so failed fetches fall back to the last good articles rather than dropping a symbol from the pipeline.

🔍

Garbage Symbols from the Screener

The Finviz top-gainers screener was surfacing warrants, SPAC units, and preferred shares — instruments Alpaca can't trade normally. We integrated the OpenFIGI API to validate every screener symbol before it enters the scan pipeline, filtering to confirmed Common Stock and ETP only.

📰

Two News Sources Weren't Enough

Some trades entered on thin article counts when one source was down. We added Finnhub company news as a third parallel source, giving the sentiment engine ~3× more signal coverage per symbol at no additional cost. The first newsdata.io integration was abandoned when we discovered the free plan has a 12-hour article delay — fatal for a trading signal pipeline.

🏗️

Dashboard Refactor Under Live Fire

The entire dashboard CSS and JavaScript was extracted from a single monolithic HTML file into separate static assets — mid-week, while the bot was actively running. Zero downtime, zero missed signals.

📉

The MRNA Short Lesson

Our first short trade of the week — MRNA — went against us immediately. Bearish sentiment was strong, but the stock bounced. The stop-loss contained the damage, a clean lesson in why position-level risk controls matter as much as signal quality.