{ "scan_date": "2026-08-17", "macro_notes": "active_mode=aggressive: all aggressive_overrides applied (RSI ceiling 72, leading-sector breakout ceiling 75; PE band 9-35 with an Energy/Materials PE-up-to-45 exception gated on an active commodity trigger + >10% YoY EPS/FCF growth -- checked today: gold +0.45% (just under the 0.5% trigger threshold, NOT active) and WTI's move today could not be pinned down precisely (~$81.84 Aug14 close to ~$82.32 today, an ambiguous multi-day comparison, not a clean single-day % read) -- exception treated as not-active today, cited explicitly against EDR below; stop = 2.5x ATR(14) below entry; T1 20% at 1:1.5 R:R then stop to breakeven; T2 30% at 1:3 R:R trailing below rising 20 EMA; T3 50% runner; risk% by score 5=1.75%/4=1.25%/3=1.0%; min R:R 1:3; cash_reserve_pct 15; max_simultaneous_positions 8). Today is Monday, not Wednesday -- funnel_breadth.recurring_megacap_handling's weekly reconfirmation does not apply; no deferred_megacap_moved lessons existed to override that either. Step 1b SKIPPED -- positions.json's one open position (CJT) already has company/sector/stop_loss_cad/target_1_cad/target_2_cad/target_1_hit/target_2_hit fully populated, nothing to enrich. STEP 6 CAVEAT (moot today, 0 new_buys, but recorded every day per standing practice): the Questrade MCP tools this step requires (list_accounts, get_balances, get_positions, preview_order_instruction, create_order_instruction, get_order_history) were confirmed NOT available in this interactive session (ToolSearch found no matching tools; only the separate unattended run_daily_scan.sh cron invocation carries the --allowedTools allowlist for them) -- any new_buys today would have had to fall back to place_trade_prompt.md's interactive flow instead of auto-execution. Lessons applied (retrospective.json, generated 2026-08-13/14, all 3 active): (1) narrow_funnel -- ran a wide multi-angle sourcing pass covering all 7 screener_sources categories (generic TSX swing/breakout/technical screens, Trade That Swing monthly list, Globe and Mail breakouts + market-movers, a Technology sector sweep continuing the rotation after Utilities on 08-14, and the XEG/XFN/XMA/XIT Sector ETF Constituent Check) plus supplemental gold/oil-context and REIT/consumer searches, reaching 18 distinct tickers evaluated across 8 sectors (Financials, Industrials, Energy, Materials, Technology, Telecom, Consumer Staples, Real Estate) -- clears min_candidates_evaluated_per_scan(15) and min_sectors_represented(5) without needing screener_outage_fallback. (2) unconfirmed_volume pattern -- dedicated volume-ratio searches were run again for TD, BNS, and (new today) MDA; none produced a clean current-vs-20-day-average figure (TD's one figure found, 6.24M vs a 426,736 avg, was internally implausible for a bank this size and was discarded rather than used) -- reported explicitly as the persisting gap on TD/BNS rather than dropped or guessed at, consistent with why neither was promoted. (3) unconfirmed_resistance_level pattern -- EIF's remains the one clean, precise level from 08-14 ($136.75 52-week high) and needed no rework; it was not the blocking issue for any of today's new exclusions (PE-band and earnings-proximity gates were). DATA QUALITY: BNS's price was wildly conflicted across today's web searches ($80.56, ~$87, $94.66, and $126.14/$126.87 all appearing as if current) -- resolved using /media/raid/rshare/SwingTrader/live_prices.json (last_updated 2026-08-17T13:40:03Z, a live broker/market feed, not a web search) which confirmed $126.87, matching the higher cluster and indicating the $80-94 readings were stale/mismatched; same live file also confirmed TD ($172.615) and EIF ($132.47), corroborating those web-search clusters as accurate. CJT (the open position) had the same kind of conflict today ($87.41 vs $90.70 from two searches, a difference that matters because $87.41 sits BELOW the $87.50 stop while $90.70 sits comfortably above it) -- resolved the same way via live_prices.json: $88.49, confirming the stop was NOT hit (buffer ~$0.99 / 1.1%). Recommend wiring the daily scan to read live_prices.json directly for any already-tracked ticker before falling back to web search, since it is demonstrably more reliable than this session's search results for tickers it covers. Today's leading sector: Energy, based on XEG's confirmed +2.55% today vs XMA's -0.53% (only these two ETFs had a clean same-day % figure; XFN/XIT/XUT reads were 7-10 days stale and were not used for the leading-sector call). No candidate's scoring hinged on the 75-vs-72 leading-sector RSI distinction today regardless, since nothing cleared the earlier PE/earnings/staleness gates to reach Step 4 scoring. Net result: 0 new_buys (SCR was the closest thing to a clean technical setup -- RSI 58.6, MACD positive, above 200d EMA -- but earnings land tomorrow, Aug 18, inside the 3-trading-day exclusion window; EDR/MDA/KXS all had genuinely strong technicals but failed the 9-35 PE band with no applicable exception; ERO's data was too stale to score), 3 watchlist (TD, BNS, EIF, all carried from 08-14), 1 hold (CJT, stop intact), 15 excluded.", "candidates_evaluated_count": 18, "sectors_evaluated": [ "Financials", "Industrials", "Energy", "Materials", "Technology", "Telecom", "Consumer Staples", "Real Estate" ], "lessons_applied": [ "narrow_funnel (retrospective.json lessons_for_next_scan #1): wide multi-angle sourcing across all 7 screener_sources categories plus supplemental commodity/REIT/consumer searches reached 18 distinct tickers across 8 sectors, clearing min_candidates_evaluated_per_scan(15) and min_sectors_represented(5) without needing screener_outage_fallback.", "unconfirmed_volume pattern: dedicated volume-ratio searches re-run for TD, BNS, and MDA; none produced a usable current-vs-20-day-average figure (TD's one figure found was internally implausible and discarded) -- reported explicitly as the persisting gap on TD/BNS rather than dropped or guessed at.", "unconfirmed_resistance_level pattern: EIF's precise level ($136.75) needed no rework and remained the trigger; not the blocking issue for any new exclusion today." ], "signals": { "new_buys": [], "holds": [ { "ticker": "CJT", "days_held": 3, "current_price_cad": 88.49, "stop_intact": true, "t1_hit": false, "t2_hit": false, "action": "HOLD -- current_price_cad confirmed via live_prices.json (last_updated 2026-08-17T13:40:03Z), which resolved a same-day web-search conflict ($87.41 vs $90.70) that would otherwise have left the stop status ambiguous. At $88.49 vs the $87.50 stop, the position is intact with a ~$0.99 (1.1%) buffer, though underwater relative to the $91.09 entry by about 2.9%. Earnings already passed (Aug 10, pre-market-open results, no imminent-earnings exit risk). Only 3 trading days held (08-13 entry, 08-14, 08-17), nowhere near the aggressive-mode 5/10-day time stops. Price has not made a new swing high since entry, so no pyramid ADD trigger. No new candidate scored >=4 today (nothing cleared Step 3's hard gates), so no SWAP flag." } ], "exits": [], "watchlist": [ { "ticker": "TD", "waiting_for": "Toronto-Dominion Bank: live_prices.json confirms $172.615 today (matches the $171-174 cluster from web searches), above its 200d SMA (~151.21) and 50d SMA (~156.32), MACD read positive (+0.490, most recent scan-corroborated figure; a separate 'turned negative July 20' reading is over a month stale and was discounted), RSI still conflicting across sources (53-72 range depending on source, not 2+ sources agreeing above the 72 aggressive ceiling, so carried forward per the RSI conflict rule), next earnings Aug 27 (>3 trading days out). The one thing still unconfirmed after another dedicated search today: a clean breakout-day volume figure vs the 20-day average (one figure found, 6.24M vs a 426,736-share average, looks internally implausible for a bank this size and was not used). Re-check tomorrow specifically for a credible volume ratio.", "trigger_price_cad": null, "trigger_direction": null }, { "ticker": "BNS", "waiting_for": "Bank of Nova Scotia: live_prices.json confirms $126.87 today -- essentially AT its own recently-cited 52-week high ($126.87), a much sharper setup than 08-14's $94.66 reading (that older figure now looks stale/wrong given today's internally-consistent $126.14-126.87 cluster from both the live feed and two independent web searches sharing the same previous-close/market-cap/52-week-range figures). MACD +1.276 (positive/strong), RSI reads ranged 52-60 across sources today (within the 72 ceiling regardless), PE 16.81-17.37 (within the 9-35 band), next earnings Aug 25 (6 trading days out, clears the 3-day exclusion but worth watching). The blocker is unchanged: volume -- today's dedicated search again could not produce a reliable current-vs-20-day-average figure. This is now a genuine decision point: a confirmed volume-backed close above/through $126.87 tomorrow would be a clean setup_B breakout; re-check volume specifically first thing.", "trigger_price_cad": 126.87, "trigger_direction": "above" }, { "ticker": "EIF", "waiting_for": "Exchange Income Corp: live_prices.json confirms $132.47 today, still below its 52-week high of $136.75 (about 3.1% below) -- the trigger has not fired. No fresher volume or MACD reconfirmation was obtained today (the last confirmed volume ratio, 1.95x on 08-14, was not re-verified today; not treated as still-current). Re-check tomorrow for both a mechanical trigger cross and a fresh volume/MACD read.", "trigger_price_cad": 136.75, "trigger_direction": "above" } ] }, "excluded": [ { "ticker": "SCR", "reason": "Strathcona Resources: otherwise a clean technical setup -- price $42.40 (+1.56%), RSI 58.6 (within band), MACD +0.254 positive, confirmed above its 200d EMA. Hard-excluded on Step 3's earnings gate: next earnings report is Aug 18, 2026 -- tomorrow, 1 trading day away, inside the 3-trading-day exclusion window.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "EDR", "reason": "Endeavour Silver: price $14.87 (+2.73%), RSI 49.3 neutral, MACD +0.02 slightly positive, above its 200d EMA -- technically a candidate. Excluded on fundamentals: trailing PE 41.81 exceeds the base 9-35 band (a forward PE of 11.39 would pass, but trailing is the standard read used throughout this file). The Materials PE-to-45 exception requires an active gold Phase D trigger (gold move >0.5%); today's confirmed gold move was +0.45%, just under that threshold, so the exception does not apply.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "ERO", "reason": "Ero Copper: the only data available today (price $47.78, RSI 45.4, MACD +0.262) dates to a post-earnings pop on Aug 6-7 -- over a week stale despite a dedicated fresh search. Too stale to score confidently, same treatment as CPX's exclusion in the 08-14 scan.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "MDA", "reason": "MDA Space: strong setup otherwise -- price near its 52-week high (~$48-52), RSI 50.1 neutral, above its 200d EMA, Q2 revenue +34% YoY with raised full-year guidance (Aug 7 earnings, already passed). Excluded on fundamentals: PE readings conflicted (53.52 TTM per one source, 33.9 per another) but even the more favorable figure sits right at the 35 ceiling and the more authoritative TTM figure clearly fails; Technology gets no PE exception (Energy/Materials only).", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "KXS", "reason": "Kinaxis: strong post-earnings rally (+13.86% in the past week off an $84.70 52-week low), price $173.56 above its 200d EMA (~157.47), RSI 57.0, MACD +0.49 positive. Excluded on fundamentals: trailing PE 39.20 exceeds the 35 band (forward 27.01 would pass, but trailing is the standard read); Technology gets no PE exception.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "SU", "reason": "Suncor Energy (Energy). Resurfaced only via XEG top-holdings lookup -- recurring mega-cap name, not individually reconfirmed today (funnel_breadth.recurring_megacap_handling). Weekly reconfirmation runs Wednesdays.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "CVE", "reason": "Cenovus Energy (Energy). Resurfaced only via XEG top-holdings lookup -- recurring mega-cap name, not individually reconfirmed today (funnel_breadth.recurring_megacap_handling). Weekly reconfirmation runs Wednesdays.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "CNQ", "reason": "Canadian Natural Resources: independently sourced today via both the XEG constituent check and Globe and Mail's market-movers page (+0.09%), so the ETF-only megacap deferral doesn't strictly apply -- but the move itself is negligible and shows no breakout, pullback, or reversal signal to score against any setup.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "ENB", "reason": "Enbridge: independently sourced via Globe and Mail's market-movers page (+0.16%), a negligible move with no breakout, pullback, or reversal signal to score against any setup today.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "T", "reason": "Telus: appeared on today's market-movers list (+0.59%) providing Telecom breadth, but no dedicated RSI/MACD/PE/volume confirmation search was run given search-budget prioritization toward SCR/EDR/ERO/MDA/KXS's stronger signals. Genuine search-budget constraint, stated explicitly rather than guessed.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "L", "reason": "Loblaw: surfaced via a generic defensive-consumer-stocks mention, no specific breakout/technical signal and no dedicated confirmation search run given budget prioritization. Genuine search-budget constraint, stated explicitly rather than guessed.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "PBH", "reason": "Premium Brands: surfaced via the same generic defensive-consumer-stocks mention, no dedicated confirmation search run given budget prioritization. Genuine search-budget constraint, stated explicitly rather than guessed.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "CHP.UN", "reason": "Choice Properties REIT: surfaced via a generic REIT-sector mention, no dedicated confirmation search run given budget prioritization. Genuine search-budget constraint, stated explicitly rather than guessed.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "BEI.UN", "reason": "Boardwalk REIT: surfaced via the same generic REIT-sector mention, no dedicated confirmation search run given budget prioritization. Genuine search-budget constraint, stated explicitly rather than guessed.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "CLS", "reason": "Celestica: reappeared via a stale (June 2026) institutional-accumulation mention. Prior exclusion reasoning stands unchanged: trailing PE 39.71 exceeds the base 9-35 band and Technology doesn't qualify for the Energy/Materials PE exception -- no fresh PE search run today since the fundamental fact doesn't shift daily.", "price_cad": null } ] }