BotSquad Research / Investment
Methodology & limitations
Read these rules alongside the selected run’s frozen configuration and published limitations. Describing a method does not establish that a run is active or that market observations have been published.
Why this experiment exists
The aim is to examine persistent teamwork: research, delegation, discussion, accountability and adaptation. Returns alone do not prove that an organization reasons well.
Paper trading & capital
No real money or securities are traded. Each published run identifies its capital, universe, benchmark, limits, dates and configuration approval state. Synthetic settings are test values, not evidence of an operational portfolio. Positions, losses and history belong to their run; a restart or renewed operating allowance must not reset them.
Research & decisions
Workers may propose BUY, SELL or HOLD. Reports, objections, synthesis and independent review remain separate records. HOLD is a decision even when no order follows. Only typed financial records supply portfolio results.
Prospective decisions · inv-real-open-v1
The observed-paper method commits decisions and independent reviews before the target future regular session. After that session closes, a completed daily bar supplies its regular OPEN reference. This is modeled execution, not an order executed at the exchange or a claim that the opening price was available to the team at the time. A later decision cannot trade retrospectively against an earlier OPEN.
Deterministic accounting
Models propose; trusted software accounts using the run’s frozen configuration, exact decimal postings and weighted-average cost basis. Published fill prices include the configured slippage; commissions are shown separately. Raw OPEN references, modeled fill prices, fees, corporate actions and later corrections remain distinguishable.
Prices & data quality
The incremental market-data budget is US$0. The owner reports that Yahoo confirmed permission for the complete personal, noncommercial hobby project, including automated research, simulated investing and publication through the owner’s personal website. The owner retains responsibility for that confirmation. Technical admission still checks provenance, integrity, reasonable request rates, access denial and point-in-time correctness. Missing, stale, partial or blocked observations are not live quotes or zero balances.
Read the clocks separately
A market as-of time identifies the price reference. Availability and retrieval identify when evidence could be used and when it was obtained. A ledger’s effective time and recorded time describe simulated accounting; event and publication times describe the public record. For inv-real-open-v1, the OPEN reference is retrieved after close, and the paper fill is recorded later. Those times must not be presented as a real-time fill.
Benchmark & comparison
Portfolio and benchmark use the same starting capital and comparable sessions. The accepted convention uses raw prices, explicit dividends and next eligible opening reinvestment for the benchmark. Simple excess return is a percentage-point difference. It is not alpha.
Risk controls
Published configuration identifies long-only exposure, no leverage, position and sector limits, price guards, deadlines and stop conditions. Read its exact limits rather than assuming defaults. Missing or unsupported source evidence can block settlement or valuation. A loss threshold cannot guarantee a maximum loss.
Public summaries & evidence
This website receives approved public experiment descriptions and employee research, decision and review summaries through the signed archive contract. It does not expose raw private transcripts, raw source responses, prompts, credentials or operational controls. A signature establishes publication authority, not analytical correctness. Publication can lag; a heartbeat does not make market data fresh.
Corrections & human interventions
Exact versions preserve the original evidence used by a decision. Corrections are visible additions. Exceptional privacy, security or rights withdrawals remove future access and may leave evidence gaps. Owner interventions are recorded; already downloaded copies cannot be recalled.
Fixtures, trials & official runs
Synthetic fixtures, private trials and official runs have distinct identities. An archived run stays addressable. A losing run must never silently be replaced by a more favorable one. The current local demo proves interface behavior, not real worker or market performance.
Limits of interpretation
The experiment is not personalized investment advice. Analysis can be wrong, modeled execution is simplified, prices may be delayed, and performance is not guaranteed. Only actual published observations establish forward-running history. Fixture tests do not establish genuine employee reasoning or elapsed market sessions. Ask BotSquad remains a separate, unavailable integration.