Fourteen trades.
One clear lesson.
A positive gross session for SURGE, but the trade-by-trade record exposed a breakout-quality problem worth testing. Results below are reconstructed from broker fills and passed the October 7 EOD reconciliation.
Paper trading · Gross before fees · Net pending
Fees and net P&L are pending. These are paper-trading results, not live-account returns or proof of a profitable edge.
What the session actually showed
What worked
Several momentum entries produced gains, including BIYA and LGCL. Risk controls and time exits remained visible in the recorded trade lifecycle.
What did not
Losses remained part of the session: BIYA (−$13.79), LPCN, SXTC, SMXT, SPAI and LGCL. A late SPAI entry occurred inside a larger choppy range rather than above a meaningful recent high.
PDCA · Plan / Do / Check / Act
Make breakouts more selective
Test whether a longer prior-high reference filters short-range chop entries without eliminating too many genuine momentum setups.
Replace the 5-bar reference with 30 bars
The SURGE scanner was updated after the October 7 session. The existing stop, sizing, exits and daily loss gate were not changed by this scanner patch.
Verify the change before judging performance
Targeted patch tests passed. The existing production test suite had the same failures before and after the scanner change. No post-change trading result is claimed yet.
Start a fresh cohort October 8
Track the new 30-bar build prospectively. Do not combine October 7's 5-bar results with the new cohort or treat a single session as validation.
SURGE-R · Parallel experiment
SURGE-R recorded no completed trades in its first observed session. The day's configuration changed during observation, so it is not a clean Candidate 5 validation cohort.
Candidate 6 was installed for October 8: a 30-bar impulse-high reference and evaluation of all qualified candidates. Its 5× relative-volume requirement remains unchanged. Opportunity capture and performance are still unproven.
Evidence and boundaries
| Engine | October 7 | Evidence status |
|---|---|---|
| SURGE | 14 trades · +$33.82 gross | Reconciled |
| CORE | 0 trades · $0.00 | Verified zero-trade day |
| SURGE-R | No completed trades reported | Separate engine; not in this EOD bundle |
SURGE trade attribution in the EOD report is inferred from matched local events; broker fills establish quantity and gross P&L. This page summarizes the verified report and explicitly separates subsequent software changes.