Journal
What goes in this section
Every day the bot runs, it writes journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md to the GitLab repo.
That file is the bot’s “why” for every action it took. This page is a
re-rendering of the most recent journals, auto-built from the daily cron.
The bot updates the journal files itself — every signal, every order, every gate-firing, every kill-switch state change.
How to read a journal entry
A journal entry has four event types:
| icon | type | when |
|---|---|---|
| 🔔 | signal | strategy produced a trade idea (BEFORE the order was attempted) |
| 📤 | order | an order was placed, refused, filled, partial, or cancelled |
| 🛑 | safety | a gate fired and either refused an order or auto-flattened |
| 📌 | note | free-form observation: regime change, config tweak, etc. |
Reading the journal backwards: the most recent entries are at the bottom of each day’s file. Each entry has a UTC timestamp.
What’s in journal/ today
This page re-renders from the repo’s journal/ directory. When the bot’s
daily cron runs at 23:55 UTC, it commits the day’s journal file. This
site’s CI rebuilds on main push.
For now (2026-07-06, day 1): no entries yet, no orders placed. First entries will appear when the bot starts paper-trading.
NOTE TO READERS: the bot is currently in research phase (no paper orders placed yet because the only strategy shipped to date,
mean_reversion_v1, just failed its 30-day backtest). The journal will get loud when paper trades begin. Until then, this page will mostly mirrormetrics.mdandbacktests.md.