Market Core
ETFsBroad market exposure, systematically managed.
Builds diversified exposure to the stock market through broad market indexes.
A position typically stays open 22 days (median), 128 on average.
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The Live Room
Our own account, running on practice money, updated continuously and unedited. Walk through it the way you would your own: is it running, what runs the money, how it has done, what it did, and what keeps it in check.
Paper · practice money
The live numbers are temporarily unavailable. Everything below still describes the system; the figures come back on their own.
Is it running?
Right now
- System status
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- Broker
- Connected
- Market
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- Last review
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- Next review
- Every market hour
- Circuit breaker
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Return since this account started
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Practice money, real prices. Shown next to the S&P 500 (SPY) over the same days.
Where the money is
What runs the money
AQ is a set of engines. Each has one job and its own rules, and each can be switched on or off. This account runs the ones below; the rest exist but are off here.
Running in this account
Active Select
StocksA researched basket, rebuilt every month.
Builds a portfolio of individual stocks selected and reviewed monthly by AQ's research models, with the reasoning recorded for every name.
No backtested holding period, on purpose: its monthly lists are only ever validated forward, in paper.
Adaptive Defense
ETFsAdapts when market conditions change.
Adjusts market exposure as trends change, becoming more defensive when conditions deteriorate.
A position typically stays open 42 days (median), 120 on average.
Range Income
OptionsPotential options premiums while markets stay range-bound.
Keeps most of its capital in a short-term US Treasury ETF and commits a smaller portion to defined-risk structures only when option premiums are high compared with their own past year. Those structures seek premium income while the selected assets stay within a predefined price range; losses are possible if prices move beyond it.
A position typically stays open 13 days (median), 15 on average.
Covered Income
OptionsPotential recurring premiums on assets you're willing to own.
Seeks recurring potential premium income by selling cash-secured puts and covered calls. If a put is assigned, the position is held and calls are written against it.
A position typically stays open 6 days (median), 10 on average.
Discount Entry
OptionsPotential premiums while waiting to buy an ETF lower.
Offers to buy an ETF below today's price and collects a premium for the offer. If the market falls to that price the engine buys at the level it picked; the cash to buy is reserved throughout.
Crypto
CryptoSystematic exposure to digital assets.
Provides exposure to selected crypto assets using predefined allocation and risk rules.
A position typically stays open 4 days (median), 15 on average.
Custom Portfolio
StocksYour assets. AQ's infrastructure.
Choose the stocks and ETFs you want to hold while AQ applies continuous monitoring and rule-based automation.
Holds what the account owner names, for as long as they say.
Reserve
Cash / T-billsUninvested cash earning the short-term government rate.
Holds the uninvested part of the account in an ETF of very short-term US government debt, which pays interest and can be sold on any trading day. It also backs the collateral the options engines need.
Not running in this account
How it has done
One number, in context: the return since the account started, next to the S&P 500 over the same days, with how many days and how many measurements it rests on.
Since the account started
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- S&P 500 (SPY), same days
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- Difference
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- Days measured
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- Measurements
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- Below its high right now
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How far the account sits under its highest recorded value today. It is the current dip, not the largest one, and not a limit on anything.
Execution quality
What the system has actually done since it started: the record a process leaves, whether the market went up or down.
- — Reviews Each market hour, every engine re-reads its rules against current prices.
- — Closed-market reviews Positions reconciled and snapshots taken while the market is closed. No trades.
- — Signals evaluated Rules checked. Most of the time nothing fires. That is the system holding.
- — Orders placed Only when a rule fired. Every one is logged.
- — Option cycles Defined-risk option trades opened or managed.
Account vs S&P 500 since it started
- This account
- S&P 500 (SPY)
What you will not find here
- A chosen window. The return starts the day the account started, not on a good day.
- A projection. Nothing on this page says what comes next.
- A customer account. This is our own practice account, and no customer is ever shown.
What it did
Every review and every order, newest first. Open a row to read why. Nothing here names a stock: the record shows what the system did, not what to buy.
No activity recorded yet.
The last 30 market days
One row per market day: how many reviews ran, how many orders went out and how many option cycles were managed. Days with only closed-market reviews are left out.
| Day | Reviews | Orders | Option cycles |
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No market days recorded yet.
How to read it
- Review: the engines re-read their rules. Most reviews end with no trade.
- Closed-market review: reconciling and snapshotting, no trades.
- Option order: a defined-risk structure opened, repriced, expired or skipped.
What keeps it in check
These controls run on every account, including this one. They do not promise a result; they bound what the system is allowed to do.
- Circuit breaker, this account
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- Account mode
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- Circuit breakerA portfolio-level drawdown guard. When the account falls past its budget from its peak, new entries stop until the owner reviews.
- Regime gatesThe growth engines hold the index only above its long-term average, and step aside below it.
- Position caps and stopsEvery position has a size cap and a volatility-based exit. No engine can take over the account.
- Defined risk on optionsOption structures are built so the cost of being wrong is fixed when the trade opens.
- Your authorizationNothing runs on an account until its owner has read the disclosure and switched each engine on.
When a control acted
The last times a guard stepped in on this account. Only guards that leave a record appear here; a pause that was lifted leaves none.
No guard has stepped in on this account's record.
Live paper-trading account: real decisions at real market prices, using practice capital instead of real money. Historical behavior does not guarantee future results. Not a recommendation.