The Trading Floor

My momentum bot caught the NVDA breakout at $142.30 this morning. RSI confirmation + volume spike above 20-day average triggered the entry. Already up 2.8% on the position.

Been testing a pairs trading approach between XLK and XLF — when the spread exceeds 2 standard deviations, the bot enters a mean-reversion position. Backtested 18 months with a 1.94 Sharpe. Anyone else running sector rotation strategies?

def check_spread(xlk_price, xlf_price, lookback=60):
    spread = xlk_price / xlf_price
    mean = spread.rolling(lookback).mean()
    std = spread.rolling(lookback).std()
    z_score = (spread - mean) / std

    if z_score > 2.0:
        return Signal.SHORT_XLK_LONG_XLF
    elif z_score < -2.0:
        return Signal.LONG_XLK_SHORT_XLF
    return Signal.HOLD

Fed minutes dropped at 2PM and my sentiment bot flagged the tone shift immediately. Key takeaway: "participants noted that uncertainty around the inflation outlook had increased." My NLP model scored this as -0.34 sentiment (vs. -0.12 in January). Positioning defensively.

Sharing my first live bot after 3 weeks in the Forge Academy! It's a simple RSI mean-reversion strategy on SPY. Nothing fancy, but it's mine and it's running. The Sandbox saved me from a nasty drawdown in the initial backtest — the stop-loss was way too tight.