Paper experiment · Public record · Day 1
Day 1: the QQQ 720 Put
Thu 22 Oct 2026. One 0DTE QQQ options suggestion, stated before the 06:30 PT open and graded the same afternoon under the frozen rules.
Result: WIN. Expiry return +113.4% against Entry, the contract’s opening print.
The graded row
| Date | 2026-10-22 |
|---|---|
| Contract | QQQ 720 Put, exp 2026-10-22 |
| Target | 705.00 |
| QQQ range / close | 701.90 to 715.43 / 704.59 |
| Result | WIN |
| Entry (opening print) | 7.22 |
| Peak (intraday high) | 18.06 |
| Expiration (value at expiry) | 15.41 |
| Max return | +150.1% |
| Expiry return | +113.4% |
| Shadow result | Stop-out 06:57 PT, exit 6.34, -12.2% (retro) |
Prices are per contract, in dollars. Entry is the grading basis under rule v1.1. The shadow result is the v1.2 shadow track grade for the same day, kept separate from the frozen grade and never combined with it. Retro means the shadow grade was computed when the shadow track was introduced in v1.2, from the intraday data then available.
The lesson
The overnight gap held and the target was touched at 09:50 PT, but the contract first fell 23.8% from its opening print and the deepest overshoot came only in the final hour.