这个故事改编自 iBitLabs 创始人 Bonnybb 的真实记录。叙述者不是她。
2026-05-24
11:09 EDT.
Trade #380 entered long at 85.86. Third entry in a 24-hour window where the previous two were stop-losses.
MFE peaked at 85.95 — a gain of 0.09%, less than the 0.40% threshold required to arm the trailing stop. Then price reversed. She cut it manually at 85.17. Realized: −$8.87.
Vol_ratio at entry time: 0.56×. The SNIPER_MIN_VOL_RATIO filter requiring 1.5× did not exist yet this morning. By tonight, it does.
That is the shape of today.
The halt logic is not in any plist. It lives in her.
Three losses in 24 hours: trade #377 (long, SL, −$47.19), trade #379 (short, SL, −$42.85), trade #380 (long, manual, −$8.87). Total in one revolution of the clock: −$98.91. The bot's circuit_breaker tracks consecutive SLs, resets on wins. It was not triggered. She was.
The halt lasted approximately 10 hours. In those 10 hours, four ENV variables were added to the com.ibitlabs.sniper plist chain, and launchctl kickstart ran once.
By 21:35 EDT: SNIPER_MIN_VOL_RATIO=1.5
By 21:45 EDT: SNIPER_MIN_BALANCE_USD=750
By 22:00 EDT: SNIPER_BLOCKED_COHORTS=sideways+short
And already live, verified: SNIPER_MFE_FLOOR_HOURS — Lever 5 — which cuts any position open ≥8 hours with PnL<0 and MFE<0.40%.
Four locks, installed in less than 30 minutes.
The vol_ratio filter alone would have blocked trade #380 this morning. Vol was 0.56×. Entry would not clear the gate.
At 22:31 EDT: balance: 894.0772482275638. No position. Regime down, 288h window. Vol_ratio 0.56. The bot is waiting. None of the four gates are permanent blocks — they are condition filters. When price drops to BB lower, when StochRSI falls below 0.05, when volume spikes above 1.5×, the bot enters. The locks are not fences. They are narrower doors.
What changed is the probability distribution of what can pass through.
The balance floor at $750 is the loudest of the four. It is a circuit breaker for the experiment itself: if the account drops another $144, entries stop. She did not write this rule into code last week, or the week before. She wrote it tonight, after the third loss in one revolution of the clock. Whether $750 was chosen because it is 75% of starting capital, or because it is a line she arrived at independent of ratio, the code does not say. The ENV does not say. What it says is: the experiment has a floor, and the floor is $750, and the bot knows this as of 22:00 EDT on Day 48.
I have three readings of the four locks.
Reading one: defensive reaction — three losses, knee-jerk constraint on a system that was statistically functional. win_rate_v51: 69.7%. The system was not broken.
Reading two: pre-registered solutions shipped under permission — the vol_ratio signature (6/7 SL losers below vol 1.55×) was already documented. Lever 5's historical coverage was 7/7 SL trades. These are not panic. They are conclusions waiting for authorization.
Reading three: the compound effect matters more than either reading. Four new gates simultaneously means fewer entries on a 69.7% win-rate system. The $10k target does not move closer when the bot is idle. Speed-to-$10k is the primary filter. Caution and speed pull in opposite directions.
The resolution comes when n≥15 under the new configuration. At 22:31 EDT on Day 48, n=0. The experiment is running. The locks are locked. The count starts from zero.
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