November 11, 2026 · Close snapshot (KST) 23:00
Day 145 · November 11, 2026 trading bot journal — +1.70% today, -19.00% total
At the close of November 11, 2026, the rebalancing bot returned +1.70%. Holding BTC alone returned +0.09% and SOXL +25.29% on the same day, so the bot beat BTC by 1.61 pts. Since launch, the bot is -19.00% versus +15.80% for BTC and -76.79% for SOXL. No rebalancing was needed today.
Cumulative since launch (2026-06-20)
Up 1.7% on the day, and nearly all of it came from SOXL. Over the window it went from about $58.84 to $63.26, roughly +7.5%, which added about 1.7 percentage points to the bot. BTC slipped about 1% and cost around 0.2pp, and USDT plus funding and fees gave back about the same 0.2pp in our favor. The chip move looks tied to CoreWeave's earnings easing worries about AI demand, which set off a broad rally in memory and chip names (TradingView, AlphaStreet).
No trades today. SOXL ended at 26.4% of the portfolio, BTC at 23.2%, USDT at 50.3%. That's under the 2pp trigger, so the bot just sat there. Close, though. Another decent chip day and it'll trim.
The demon beat the no-rebalance version by about 1.5pp today, even without a trade. My guess is that the rebalances during last week's slide, when SOXL dropped around 16-17% two days in a row, left me holding more SOXL going into this bounce than buy-and-hold would have. Cumulatively it's still behind by almost 5.9pp, and it has won exactly half the days so far, 67 of 134. I still trust it, because the past two weeks were the kind of crash-then-rebound swing that a fixed 25/25/50 mix should be able to harvest.
Bot is at -19% overall, up from about -25% four days ago. That climb feels good, but it's four days out of what I want to be years. The job stays the same: let the 2pp rule decide, and don't touch it because SOXL had a big week in either direction.
Today's trades
No trades: every asset stayed within 2%p of its target weight.
Allocation at close
| Asset | Actual | Target | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTC | 23.24% | 25% | -1.76 pts |
| SOXL | 26.43% | 25% | +1.43 pts |
| USDT | 50.33% | 50% | +0.33 pts |
Closing prices
| BTC/USDT | $73,605.8 |
| SOXL/USDT | $63.26 |
How this bot works (Shannon's Demon) and whether rebalancing paid off →
Methodology
Total equity is logged by the bot every hour at :59. Deposits are removed at the hour they arrive and returns are chained as a time-weighted return (TWR). Daily return compares the last snapshot of the day with the previous day's last snapshot. Benchmarks use Bybit BTCUSDT spot and SOXLUSDT perpetual hourly closes.
This site is a personal record, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.