Patch notes

Three fixes from the paper book. The committee still decides the trade.

• SAFE only cuts size. A score under the book's minimum waits. It does not open a half-size ticket.
• Day long and swing long block a new entry when the daily tape is CHAOS. A position that is already open stays with its stop.
• A day-trade exit is labeled on the day book in the ghost review.

Helpers for when a dip is early, and when a swing is in the right place. The committee still decides the trade.

• Knife shield. A long dip stays armed while Bollinger bandwidth is expanding and the bands are not coiled, unless price is walking the upper band. Swing uses the 4-hour bars. The day book uses the live bars when Top Tier and the Fibonacci scalp are on. An open position is left to the exit path. Shorts are outside this hold.
• Sub-minute Bollinger and Keltner on the day book. They resize a ticket and nudge a resting trail. A band walk against the trade cuts size. A walk with the trade can give the trail more room. Flat bandwidth can snug it. They do not open or close a trade by themselves.
• Swing alignment. A 4-hour Fibonacci pocket with the daily trend can add a little size. A disagreement, or an extension without a pocket, cuts size. Opening 4-hour bands can hold a runner. Flat bandwidth snugs the trail toward the 4-hour mid.
• Hourly order flow stays a swing blend. It does not become its own book.

• Connection tab is the controls, the chart, and the account numbers. Hover a control for the hint: day-trade protection, cash, margin, the books, and live orders.
• The portfolio line holds the balance across each minute. It stays flat until the balance changes, then steps. The clock under the cursor is that minute.

• Portfolio chart on the Connection tab. The title is Paper Portfolio or Live Portfolio, matching the mode.
• The line is account balance. Windows are 1D, 1W, and All, with dollar and percent change from the start of that window.
• Paper is stored from the blotter and about once a minute after that. Live uses Tradier equity. An update leaves both files in the bin folder.

• Check for updates on the Connection tab. This build still has to be installed from the zip. Later builds can be pulled from that button.

• For the first 5 minutes of a day trade, the 5-minute trail cannot stop the position. The only stop that can fire is the ticket stop, frozen from the daily ATR at the fill.
• A buy is not sent in the same pass that just closed a lot. The flat name is scored again on the next pass.
• When permission dies in profit, the stop moves to breakeven and the trail stays on. A permission that dies underwater still flattens.

• Paper realized P&L reads the whole ledger. A second buy on the same name no longer erases the earlier gain from the header.
• A day scale measures 2R off the stop printed on the ticket, not off a small pop in price. The trail stays on the 5-minute ATR.
• A day buy needs signed S at or above the long line. A day short needs signed S at or below the short line. A day long does not fire at supply. A day short does not fire at demand.
• While the live bands are still opening, that hold also blocks the early target scale. It does not block a trail stop, a dead permission, or the session flatten.
• For the first 5 minutes of a day trade, a wave rollover or a dead permission does not flatten the position unless the stop is hit.
• The decision log writes a new line when the gate, the action, the window, the score, or signed S changes. Each book keeps its own line.

• OptLab shows four books: swing long, swing short, day long, and day short. Each writes its own best file. There is no crowned day-short champion yet.
• Live Fibonacci, bid/ask reads, and the sub-minute band hold stay out of the grind. The lab scores candles. Those reads need quotes.
• A 20-bar live band hold can keep an open day trade through a soft exit while the bands are still opening. A trail stop, a dead permission, and the session flatten still run.
• Decision log and ghost tracker for reading why a name armed, fired, or passed.

• Day book, Top Tier, Fibonacci checkbox. Live quotes build range bars from price travel or from real dollars absorbed in a tight range. A tag of the 50% or 61.8% zone adds weight as the signal ages. It does not skip the day committee.
• Same tape, top of book only: spread wider than 0.03% vetoes the read, and so does a pulled bid or ask. Order-book imbalance, a half-second buy-versus-sell print, size-weighted micro-price, session VWAP, and tape speed can add to the day score or stand it down.
• Swing hourly order flow uses each bar’s own volume against that symbol’s last 20 hours, and it is capped at 30% of the swing decision.

• Daily context uses the prior completed day, so the session in progress does not rewrite the trend underneath a day trade.
• Session VWAP resets each Eastern day.
• Connors votes on longs only. Shorts and the day book do not use it.

• Settings is split. Risk and buying power stay shared. Swing long, swing short, and day long each have their own entry, strategies, stops, and score knobs.
• New installs seed the overnight champions. Swing long is Connors at min score 68.5. Swing short is anchored VWAP, Holy Grail, squeeze, and turtle at min score 50. Day long is turtle and squeeze, RVOL 1.8, min score 60.
• An existing settings file can load those champions, or reset one book, without wiping the others.

• Three live committees on the same quotes: swing long, swing short, and day long. A champion stays on its own book.
• Connection checkboxes arm each book. Day long and shorts are Top Tier only. Connect scores. Start trading sends orders.
• Champion files ship under bin/deliverable for Load last OptLab champion. They do not apply themselves.

• The 1.2.1 score-only gate and the 0.45 stop did not hold up on names outside the tune set. Entry is permission and trigger again. The location check stays.
• Stop scale 0.6 and target scale 6. Risk per trade 0.75%.
• Turtle Soup and NR7 stay off.

• Turtle Soup and NR7 turned off after they lost money in the attribution. Holy Grail can fire within three bars of the 20-EMA touch.
• Anchored VWAP kept as a lead. A score-only entry and a 0.45 stop were shipped with this build, then walked back in 1.2.2.

• Hard vetoes bind before every entry model: wide spread, drawdown halt, closed session, hard-to-borrow, and the event blackout. They had been computed and then ignored on the permission path.
• New installs default to permission and trigger. The event calendar ships in bin.

• Seven-bloc committee is the desk: trend, momentum, structure, volatility, flow, pattern, and macro. A regime sets the weights. Dispersion can shrink the size.

• Day tape uses 1.25 / 2.5 ATR. Swing stays 2 / 4. Around 15:45 ET, day names flatten unless daily permission is still armed, in which case they convert to overnight swing stops.
• A dead permission no longer rides the old thesis. In profit it ratchets to breakeven. Underwater, it exits while the session is open.
• A day FIRE needs VWAP or a location. Shorts overnight are Sell The Rip. Fade Rally is the cash session, covered into the close, and sized to zero in a bull regime.
• RSI is not counted twice. After a 2R scale the runner trails 1.25 ATR. The Paper tab totals P&L by tape, side, strategy, and FIRE versus SAFE.

• Settings tab. Safer is the factory profile: 1% equity risk, 2% hard cap, 15% max position, 98% of buying power. Moderate, Aggressive, and custom sliders ask for a confirm before size goes above factory.
• Expert TA sits collapsed on that tab: entry score, ATR stops and targets, committee quorum, and Scout filters.
• Scout progress stays on the Scout tab. The log keeps start, done, cancel, and real errors.
• Signed build. The real program is the exe, with the bin folder beside it.

• Connection tab: Unbind this PC. It confirms, clears the machine lock on that account, drops the saved login, and closes the app so the same username can sign in on another machine.

• First numbered public build. The window title and the account strip show the build number. The intro video ships in the bin folder next to the exe.