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The short version: I'm a software engineer putting $50,000 into the smallest stocks on the U.S. market, using a research system I'm building myself, and publishing every dollar of the result.

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1. 01
   I'm putting $50,000 into the smallest stocks on the market

   A software engineer with no trading record, a research system built from scratch, and a promise to publish every dollar. Here are the rules.

2. 02
   Why microcaps: the corner of the market big money can't reach

   A $1 billion fund would need four years to buy the stocks I'm targeting. That's the whole case for microcaps, plus the three things that make it hard.

3. 03
   Rule one: don't fool yourself (the backtest is lying)

   The best of 200 random strategies made 27% a year in its backtest and 3% afterward. Four ways backtests lie about microcaps, and my defenses.

4. 04
   Two weeks, 1,784 commits, zero trades: building the mine

   The first two weeks of a microcap research system: almost none of it is about picking stocks, and one timestamp problem could have faked every result.

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