A thousand dollars. A machine that trades it.
MRTY's fund runs an agentic trading desk. Ideas go in by the hundred, rules and backtests reject almost all of them, and the survivors trade a $1,000 paper book in small size. We tune the engine. The engine trades. Bitcoin is the line to beat, and the record is public from day one.
| Position | Qty | In | Cost | Value | P/L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPCXceo thesis · session 4 | 1.6996 | $151.70 | $257.83 | $253.71 | −$4.12 · −1.60% |
| VGthe dip · session 2 | 9.5513 | $13.46 | $128.56 | $119.25 | −$9.31 · −7.24% |
Buys a leader above its 200-day after a hard two-day selloff and sells the snapback, five sessions, or the stop. Every buy is a limit at the last close, never a market order.
| Backtest | Paper | |
|---|---|---|
| Hit rate | 59.0% | 100.0% |
| Avg trade | +0.70% | +5.43% |
| Avg hold | 3.8 days | — |
| Max drawdown | −40.00% | −2.10% |
- —LRCX · in 2026-09-15 out 2026-09-21 · rsi+7.5%
- —NVDA · in 2026-09-15 out 2026-09-18 · rsi+3.4%
- Mon, 9/21SELL FXY · the-dipthe exit
- Mon, 9/21SELL LRCX · the-dipthe exit
- Mon, 9/21BUY FXY · the-dipthe thesis
- Mon, 9/21BUY VG · the-dipthe thesis
- Fri, 9/18BUY SPCX · ceo-thesisthe thesis
- Fri, 9/18SELL NVDA · the-dipthe exit
- Mon, 9/21Vetoed XLF · MRTY's desk: a basket of banks is not a physical bottleneck (the engine map); the slot stays cashveto
- 01The stake. $1,000 on paper, no adds, from September 15, 2026. Then the same game with real money.
- 02Who trades. The engine. Strategies that passed the funnel. We never place a discretionary trade; we tune the machine.
- 03The ladder. $100 → $1,000 → $10,000 → $100,000 → $1,000,000. Each rung is an episode.
- 04The score. Net asset value over the stake: the multiple. Each strategy is judged against its own backtest.
- 05The benchmark. The same money just holding Bitcoin. Beat Bitcoin, or hold Bitcoin.
- 06The universe. The digital future, about 100 names: the builders, the bottlenecks, the breakouts. Crypto when the run confirms.
- 07The limits. No leverage, no options, no shorting, no intraday. A stop on every position. No market buys: every buy is a limit at a number we chose.
- 08The blow-up. Net asset value down 50% from its peak means the desk blew up. Restart at the stake. The record stays.
- 09The desk. The machine's picks get a research pass before the open. A structural break is a veto. Noise is a pass. Every veto is logged.
Real prices, real rules, a real engine, practice money. Every fill, miss and veto is on this page the morning it happens. The method is what's being tested.
An engine that tracks its own backtest on paper for three weeks earns the same game with real money. Same rules, same page. The record stays and the clock restarts.
Each rung is an episode. Ten times the stake, or three uncorrelated engines running, moves the desk up a rung. Our money, our record, always. Never anyone else's.
Your positions, your theses, your score, the same rules, the same review. That's the office.