Starborne Research https://starborneresearch.com A public trading research journal: market making, systematic strategies, and the experiments behind them — including the ones that failed. en Post-mortem: my first live trade was 10× too big https://starborneresearch.com/journal/first-live-trade-10x https://starborneresearch.com/journal/first-live-trade-10x Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The SPX500 bot went live and its very first trade was ten times oversized — because the broker's own metadata lied. What saved it, what it changed, and why checklists are scar tissue. StarborneTrader so far: what a year of building an ML trading system taught me https://starborneresearch.com/journal/starbornetrader-progress https://starborneresearch.com/journal/starbornetrader-progress Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT The honest state of my algorithmic trading project: the architecture that survived, the models that did not, and the lessons that cost the most to learn.