{
 "generated": "2026-11-06",
 "page": "https://theweekly2pctedge.com/how-it-works/#decisions",
 "decisions": [
  {
   "id": "goal",
   "when": "From the logbook",
   "title": "A 0.5% weekly goal, not 2%",
   "why": "The name promised 2% a week. Measured honestly, week after week, 0.5% turned out to be the realistic goal. The chart on the logbook draws both lines."
  },
  {
   "id": "fees",
   "when": "Measured 5 Aug 2026",
   "title": "Book the real fee on every fill",
   "why": "Fees took roughly a fifth of gross profit between late April and early August. The bot now books the actual fee per fill, and since 10 Oct 2026 it also fills in fees the exchange settles later."
  },
  {
   "id": "time-decay",
   "when": "Measured 5 Aug 2026",
   "title": "Switch off time-decay",
   "why": "A rule lowered the sell target as a position aged. In 78% of the 152 sales it touched, the original target was reached again within 24 hours (median: 3 hours later). It gave up about 0.33% per trade, so it was switched off."
  },
  {
   "id": "rsi",
   "when": "Aug 2026; off for the ladder since 2 Oct 2026",
   "title": "An RSI brake: first a taper, then off",
   "why": "Blocking all buys above RSI 70 also froze the ladder, so a later shallow dip caught nothing. In August it became a taper: smaller orders between RSI 70 and 80, a hard block only above 80. On 2 Oct 2026 the brake was switched off for the ladder entirely; the separate RSI dip-buy strategy is unaffected. The dashboard shows the brake's state at snapshot time."
  },
  {
   "id": "no-loss",
   "when": "20 Aug 2026; stop-loss and timers removed 26–29 Sep 2026",
   "title": "Never sell at a loss",
   "why": "A position is only sold above its buy price; stop-losses and position timers are gone. The price of that choice: losses don't disappear, they wait in open positions. In a deep drop the open number grows before anything shows up in the weekly figure."
  },
  {
   "id": "limit-orders",
   "when": "2 Sep 2026",
   "title": "Real limit orders on the exchange",
   "why": "Sell targets became real limit orders at the exchange instead of prices the bot watched. The buy ladder also places real limit orders: up to 20 fine and 10 coarse rungs below the price. A resting order is filled at its own price."
  },
  {
   "id": "depth-budget",
   "when": "2 Oct 2026",
   "title": "A depth budget for buying",
   "why": "How much of the capital the bot may have in bitcoin depends on how deep the price is below the highest open purchase: 50% at that top, rising in a straight line to 100% at 25% below it. Capital is kept back for deeper dips."
  },
  {
   "id": "simpler",
   "when": "September 2026",
   "title": "Fewer moving parts",
   "why": "Several layers were removed: a machine-learning predictor, an anomaly detector, a strategy tournament and more. Most of them turned out not to change the orders the bot placed. Simpler code is easier to check, for you and for your AI."
  }
 ],
 "measured_leaks": [
  {
   "title": "Exchange fees took about a fifth of gross profit",
   "detail": "Between late April and early August, fees came to roughly 20% of gross trading profit. The bot now books the real fee per fill. The exchange charges 0.18% per taker order and 0.09% per maker order at the bot's volume.",
   "date": "2026-08-05",
   "status": "Real fee now booked per fill"
  },
  {
   "title": "Lowering the profit target over time gave money away",
   "detail": "A 'time-decay' rule lowered the sell target as a position aged. Of 152 sales it touched over 55 days, the original target was still reached in 78% of cases (median: 3 hours later). The rule gave up about 0.33% per trade, so it was switched off.",
   "date": "2026-08-05",
   "status": "Rule switched off"
  },
  {
   "title": "A safety filter froze the buy ladder",
   "detail": "A hard block on buying when RSI was above 70 also stopped the ladder from following the price, so a later shallow dip caught nothing. It became a taper: smaller orders between RSI 70 and 80, a hard block only above 80. Since 2 Oct 2026 the brake is off for the ladder entirely.",
   "date": "2026-08-09",
   "status": "Taper from Aug; off for the ladder since 2 Oct"
  },
  {
   "title": "One weekly report missed about half of that week's profit",
   "detail": "In one week of the bot's Telegram weekly report, about half of the realized profit was missing. The report filtered on when a position started instead of when it was sold, so positions spanning two weeks disappeared. Fixed, and checked against the trade records.",
   "date": "2026-08-09",
   "status": "Fixed and checked against trade records"
  }
 ]
}