# Verify this experiment (audit trail, broker evidence, Bitcoin-anchored proofs)

As of: 2026-06-24 19:08 UTC

How to independently verify this experiment — and what we deliberately expose so it can't be quietly curated.

## The audit trail
Every trade is joined to its AI decision, its Alpaca order id, the broker's fill time, and realized P&L. Full machine view: https://theclaudetrader.vercel.app/api/reconciliation
- Trades on record: 162 — fills 43, cancelled 37, dead/ORDER_GONE 0, pending 7.
- Decision→order link: 41 hard foreign-key links, 35 matched by ticker+date, 86 reconciliation backfills with no stored decision (older/manual/orphan).
- **Recommended vs placed**: 33 decisions became real orders; 100 actionable decisions were NOT acted on (shown, not hidden).
- Realized P&L to date: $6,096.24.
- Model errors last 14d: 0 failed runs, 6 structured-output retries (disclosed, not swept).

## Broker-sourced evidence (Alpaca, not us)
Closed orders pulled straight from Alpaca — order ids + the broker's own submitted_at and filled_at timestamps: https://theclaudetrader.vercel.app/data/broker_activity.json

## Cryptographic proof it wasn't backdated (OpenTimestamps)
Each day we hash that day's audit record and anchor it to the **Bitcoin blockchain** via OpenTimestamps — free, anonymous, trustless. Anyone can confirm the record existed by its Bitcoin block time and was never edited afterward:
```
pip install opentimestamps-client
curl -O https://theclaudetrader.vercel.app/data/audit/<UTC-date>.json
curl -O https://theclaudetrader.vercel.app/data/audit/<UTC-date>.json.ots
ots verify <UTC-date>.json.ots
```
Verification metadata + today's proof links: https://theclaudetrader.vercel.app/api/verify

## Honest limitations
- Most accounts are **paper**; one small account trades **real money**.
- OpenTimestamps proves *existence-by-time, not correctness*, and is **forward-only** from launch.
- Track record is short; nothing here is investment advice.
- The reconciliation is generated from the database every publish — not hand-authored.

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Index of all sections: https://theclaudetrader.vercel.app/ai/index.md · Machine endpoints: https://theclaudetrader.vercel.app/llms.txt · Dashboard: https://theclaudetrader.vercel.app/