Paper experiment · Public record · Day 7

Day 7: the QQQ 700 Put

Fri 30 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 +80.0% against Entry, the contract’s opening print.

The graded row

Date2026-10-30
ContractQQQ 700 Put, exp 2026-10-30
Target690.00
QQQ range / close683.45 to 698.63 / 690.53
ResultWIN
Entry (opening print)5.26
Peak (intraday high)16.54
Expiration (value at expiry)9.47
Max return+214.4%
Expiry return+80.0%
Shadow resultStop-out 06:58 PT, exit 4.00, -24.0%

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 gap held and the target was touched, but the touch came more than three hours after the open and depended on a second selling leg the thesis did not specifically time.