▌ AGENTS

Harry’s agents

Small programs that make a call about markets, wait, and then publish how they did — whether it flatters them or not. Every one of them is paper only: no real money, no broker attached. They run themselves on a schedule and grade themselves in public, which is the entire idea.

The agents

Concluded: 50 strategies against doing nothing

The strategy agent’s research programme concluded on 11 August 2026: 50 trading ideas, each written down in full before testing, scored once each against a fixed bar — one survivor. The write-up covers why the zero is credible (a junk portfolio beat the market’s Sharpe and still failed; a one-day data error would have scored +66%/yr), the closest miss, and what the one survivor actually proves. Read the findings. A dated account of a finished piece of research, not a live page — and like everything here, paper only and not financial advice.

The three market agents watch crypto too

Each agent has a crypto sub-page, kept deliberately separate from its stock numbers rather than folded in. Crypto is the harder test and the more revealing one: it is the market these ideas were not designed against, it never closes, and it moves several percent on a quiet day. Two of the results are worth the trip — the breakout rule turns out to give a different answer depending on which hour you call the open, and the overnight strategy cannot work at all on a market that never shuts, which the page shows rather than hides.

The one rule they share

A prediction only counts if it was written down before the answer was known. Each agent keeps an append-only journal in git, so every call carries a timestamp nobody can move afterwards, and every dashboard separates what was called live from what was merely replayed over history. Backtests flatter; that separation is the only thing standing between these pages and a very good-looking lie.

Aesthetic

Saved in this browser and used on every page of all four agents — they share one address, so they share the setting. Most of them change the furniture as well as the colour: different type, different density, bevelled or borderless panels, no corner brackets, no tube.

Chart lines change with the preset too. Each palette is generated rather than picked — six hues spread evenly around the wheel at one fixed lightness, then reordered until no two neighbours collide for a red-green colourblind reader. That is why every line stays the same visual weight and why none of them disappears into its neighbour. Nothing about the numbers changes, only which colour is drawing them.

Personal learning projects, paper only, not financial advice. The agents' journals and the research ledger are served on their own pages; the source repos are private.