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Anatomy of a Trade

$50 → $155 → $12. Our first Kalshi run, visualized.

$50.00
Balance
0
Trades
Win Rate
$0.00
P&L
Feb 7
Day
Speed:
🚀 Discovery
Feb 7–9
+$105 · 84.7% WR
📉 Market Adapts
Feb 10–11
-$48 · 42.5% WR
🔧 The Grind
Feb 12–14
-$95 · diminishing

What We Learned

Edges are temporary. Our 85% win rate lasted exactly 3 days before the market adapted.
🎯 Signal quality ≠ execution edge. Model can be 94% accurate and still lose money if the market already priced it in.
🏗️ Infrastructure outlasts edges. The 12 modules we built will serve us when the next opportunity comes.
📊 Follow the base rate. We were betting NO 97% of the time when YES wins 60%. The market was right; we were fighting it.
🧊 Stop digging. Every "fix" after Feb 10 made things worse. Sometimes the best trade is no trade.