About
A trading desk that can't hide its losers.
Daily Stock Brief is a fully automated trading research desk. AI-built strategies compete on paper, prove themselves against real broker constraints, and - only if they earn it - graduate to real money. Every trade, every equity curve, and every retired failure is published here.
01 · What this is
The desk
Since March 2026 this desk has fielded 27 independent trading books, each seeded with $10,000 of virtual capital and left to trade autonomously under its own rules - AI stock picking, futures breakout systems, mean reversion, sentiment, and more.
Today 6 books remain active. The rest were retired for underperforming and moved to a public archive, because a track record with the losers removed isn't a track record. Everything you see is generated and executed by machines on a server that never sleeps; the market does the grading.
02 · Real money, honestly told
Live trading
In April 2026 the strongest futures strategy, DOD Futures V2, graduated to a real-money Interactive Brokers account trading one micro contract at a time under strict risk controls - a daily loss cap, an automatic halt after two losing trades, and an equity kill switch.
In July 2026 we rebuilt our backtesting on 1-minute data and found that the earlier 5-minute backtests overstated the edge: they could not see intrabar stop-outs, so live results diverged from what the backtests promised. Live trading was stood down on July 15, 2026 while a redesigned variant runs a forward paper test with pre-registered rules. Real capital returns only after the forward test confirms the edge holds in real time.
We could have quietly deleted that chapter. It's on this page instead - that is the point of the site.
03 · The shelf
Strategy families
AI Pipeline
AIA daily analysis engine that scores 40+ large caps on technicals, fundamentals, sentiment, and momentum, then lets multiple AI models argue over the final picks and write the brief.
DOD 2-Bar / Fibonacci
FuturesOur workhorse futures family: opening-range break, two strong candles, then a resting limit order at the Fibonacci retest zone on micro Nasdaq and S&P futures. Runs in US, Asian, and European session variants.
Mean Reversion
EquitiesConnors-style oversold systems - RSI(2), IBS, Williams %R - buying statistically stretched dips in uptrends, including leveraged-ETF variants.
Breakout & ICT
FuturesOpening-range breakouts and ICT-style manipulation-reversal patterns. Most of this family is now retired - the archive shows exactly why.
Sentiment
Alt dataA contrarian book that weighted social buzz from X, Reddit, and StockTwits at 55% of its score. Retired after underperforming; the record stands.
The AI Council
AIOur newest system: adversarial AI review of intraday CFD trades, with a deterministic judge and hard risk rails. In shadow mode from July 21.
Live standings for every book, active and retired, are on the lab page.
04 · Under the hood
How picks are scored
The AI Pipeline scores each stock from 0 to 100 across four weighted components, then multiple AI models review the top candidates before anything is published:
35%
Technical
RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume, ATR
30%
Fundamental
Valuation vs sector, growth, margins, debt
25%
Momentum
52-week range position, relative strength vs the S&P 500
10%
Sentiment
News flow plus social chatter across X, Reddit, and StockTwits
Different AI models take different seats: Claude writes analysis and runs the Council's deliberations, Grok reads real-time X sentiment, and Perplexity handles live news research. Price and fundamental data come from Yahoo Finance and Alpha Vantage; futures execution and data run through Interactive Brokers; intraday stock data through Alpaca.
05 · The fine print
Important disclaimer
This is not financial advice. Daily Stock Brief is an educational and research project. Nothing on this website constitutes investment advice, financial advice, trading advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
Paper results do not reflect real execution. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Trading involves substantial risk of loss - you can lose some or all of your capital.
Always do your own research and consult a licensed financial advisor before making investment decisions.