This assumes STS only goes up but I notice sometimes on HP systems the STS values get lowered. Does this ever happen on QQQ or SPY daily KISS systems? If so, how does the option trades change?

Is there any indication of it being flagged with this crazy move?

The weird thing is that the STS value it had when entered long did not hit today and still the trade closed as though it has hit. 

I use IB account heavily for stock and option trading and I find it quick and flexible. I have recently did a lot of python code to automate trading via their API interface. Thanks to Claude Code.

That is the number of HP KISS stocks used for calculating the return.

I am showing only for the HP KISS systems. When I calculated the return below, the count was around 56. Yes, when trading its equal weight for each stock traded. 

I have been trading most of the high perf systems including UPRO and SSO and other leveraged and due to diversification across many HP systems, the accounts are up for the year even though indexes are negative to down for the year. You win some and lose some, but diversification helps instead of just trading only a couple of them. If one chose all HP systems as shown below and overall portfolio growth would have looked as follows for those dates. It's all about growing accounts consistently and diversified. The good thing is also that most of the time account is only around 40% in the market. The number are impressive for each year in the past. 

On 1_7  :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 56 return ave = 1.42,
On 1_9  :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 56 return ave = 2.08,
On 1_16 :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 56 return ave = 3.23,
On 1_20 :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 56 return ave = 2.34,
On 1_23 :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 56 return ave = 4.06,
On 1_30 :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 56 return ave = 3.49,
On 2_6  :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 56 return ave = 2.49,
On 2_13 :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 55 return ave = 1.35,
On 2_20 :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 56 return ave = 1.67,
On 2_27 :: == Return for 2026, cnt = 57 return ave = 2.94,

Everything down except one.

If someone is not in the KISS trade, the current price looks like is below the entry price of the KISS. So, one should be able to enter and should be in better place than someone took the trade on entry date. Right? 

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If that is the case, how to set up a sell order ahead of time to close end of day only (if below certain price)? Do we have to manually sell end of day or sell at the open next day?

I thought the system exits when the STS is hit intra-day which it did. Does it only look at end of day price?

curious what the worst-case drawdown on this would be and the number of contracts it could keep buying/selling when going against the trade? 

The best to maximize returns is to take all trades

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Impressive. Based on some rough spreadsheet analysis, that is around 24% average return a year since 2002.

Around 8% or so

Interesting to notice that both SPX and VIX are down, which could indicate more up moves

I too got them for multiple stocks and see no issues. 

Now we know who is buying the market on dips