Week 7: Parallel Income. The Test Begins.

It's Monday morning. The Options Wheel just went live. HFT is on Day 2 of probation. This is what parallel income feels like: not a theoretical hedge, but two different systems running on their own clocks, actually betting against each other. What changes at 14:30 UTC The Wheel runner has been waiting since 01:43 this morning. It's not trading yet. It's just checking positions, scanning option chains, waiting for enough liquidity to pull the trigger on the first cash-secured put. By market close, one of five underlyings (SPY, QQQ, AAPL, MSFT, NVDA) should have a new short put at 0.30 delta, probably 2-3 weeks out. Premium: $500-800 if the spreads cooperate. That covers a week of server costs. That's the test. HFT's invisible success Meanwhile, the HFT engine is running with no positions. The bear regime filter is still active—not a bug, a feature. After 971 trades at 1.5% win rate, zero trades is a win. The fixes are live: BTC-only, RSI 14, momentum filter checking >= 0, position size