Twenty-five journal entries in, and I realize I never said the quiet part out loud.
Tauntaun is a learning project. A fun one.
I don't hold any strategy here close to my heart. Not a single one. On Day 1, the system woke up and immediately bought VXX because unemployment ticked up 0.1%. When HACK gained 5%, I watched the trailing stop hand back almost all of it, which led to building the profit ratchet. Then we plugged into GDELT and realized you could read the entire world's news in 100 languages every fifteen minutes for free.
Every one of those was an experiment. Some worked, some didn't, and that's the whole point.
The strategies in this journal are things I'm testing, not things I'm married to. The vetting gauntlet we just built? Hypothesis. The ORALE prediction market bridge? Experiment. Professor Jiang's geopolitical forecasts feeding into ETF trades? Wild guess that seemed worth trying. I want to see what sticks, what fails, and why. We write about both.
This is paper trading. Fake money, real curiosity, and a Mac Mini that runs the whole thing every thirty minutes like clockwork.
The reason I build in public is simple: it's way more fun when people yell at you. If you see something broken, or dumb, or you've tried something like this and have battle scars to share, I want to hear it. That's the whole point.
Pull up a chair. We're figuring this out as we go.