{ "scan_date": "2026-08-27", "macro_notes": "active_mode=aggressive: all aggressive_overrides applied (RSI band 35-72, leading-sector breakout ceiling 75, T1 1:1.5/T2 1:3, 5/10-day time stops, pyramid rule, 15% cash reserve, 8% max portfolio risk). Step 1a lessons from retrospective.json (generated 2026-08-26): (1) narrow_funnel -- still only 1 distinct ticker (CJT) traded across the whole program. Addressed today: Step 1c re-checked all 18 prior watchlist tickers (CNQ, CVE, CU, LUN, ABX, AEM, WPM, K, AC, BCE, CAR.UN, DOL, CLS, MDA, EIF, X, BMO, BNS) before any new sourcing, then Step 2 ran all 7 screener_sources entries (sector sweep rotated to Healthcare, not recently used) plus XEG/XIT ETF-constituent lookups surfaced SU, SHOP, CSU, GIB.A, DSG as fresh ETF-only names and the Healthcare sweep surfaced Devonian Health Group (too small, excluded on market cap). Combined, evaluated 24 distinct tickers across 10 sectors (Energy, Utilities, Materials, Industrials, Communication Services, Real Estate, Consumer Discretionary, Financials, Technology, Healthcare) -- clears min_candidates_evaluated_per_scan (15) and min_sectors_represented (5) by a wide margin. (2) unconfirmed_volume pattern -- resolved constructively for CAR.UN: a real same-week volume figure (0.73x 20-day avg, from 2026-08-22) confirmed 'volume declining on pullback,' completing its setup_A score to 5/5 and promoting it to new_buys instead of leaving it pending yet again. ABX's prior volume miss (0.66x, confirmed yesterday) carried through today to a genuine exclusion. CAR.UN's entry-sizing ATR (0.53, from a May 2026 source) is stale relative to the stock's subsequent -23% 52-week move -- flagged in CAR.UN's red_flags as a real risk the stop may be tighter than current volatility warrants; no better ATR source was found on a second attempt. BCE, EIF, BNS, X, BMO still lack a fully current-day volume read. (3) unconfirmed_resistance_level -- BCE's $38 level (found yesterday) carried forward; EIF and CLS still have none. (4) unconfirmed_macd_reading -- MDA's -0.29 MACD read confirmed unchanged for a 2nd day, used today to move it to excluded on real disconfirming data rather than leaving it pending. No overdue_exit_not_executed or unenriched_position lessons applied (positions.json still flat, zero open positions, since the CJT stop-out on 2026-08-20) and Step 5 had nothing to check. deferred_megacap_moved: retrospective's list was empty, so no override applied; recurring_megacap_handling's standard deferral itself WAS applied today (Thursday, not Wednesday) to SU (XEG-only) and SHOP/CSU/GIB.A/DSG (XIT-only) -- none were independently sourced elsewhere this scan, so Step 3 confirmation was skipped for all five per the template. Step 1c watchlist resolution (run before Step 2): CNQ, CVE and CU all hit the 7-trading-day carry limit today (started 2026-08-19) without confirming their triggers -- CNQ finally got a clean same-day CAD price ($63.60) resolving yesterday's USD/CAD confusion but it's well below the $70.30 trigger; CVE never got any same-day read across the full carry window; CU's price actually fell further from its trigger on very thin volume (~0.12x) -- all three moved to excluded. ABX, AEM, WPM, K, AC and MDA were all resolved off the watchlist today: ABX and K on confirmed disconfirming data (volume/RSI and MACD/RSI respectively turning against the thesis), MDA on a confirmed real MACD sell plus weak volume, and AEM/WPM/AC on Step 1c's rule against repeating an unresolved conflicting-data note for a 3rd consecutive scan. Materials broadly reversed today per Globe and Mail (Agnico -4.2%, Barrick -3.6%, WPM -4.3%), reinforcing the ABX/AEM/WPM exclusions. Today's leading sector read qualitatively as Financials (BMO/BNS both posted strong Q3 beats and traded near/at all-time highs post-earnings) versus Materials/gold reversing after leading most of the week -- not used to justify the 75 leading-sector RSI ceiling for any candidate today since no setup_B candidate survived to that threshold. Phase D commodity trigger not checked -- no surviving candidate sat near the PE band edge where it would matter. Step 3 discards: RY, CM and TD all report Q3 fiscal 2026 earnings today (2026-08-27, inside the 3-trading-day exclusion) -- not resurfaced by any of today's sources, so not re-listed under excluded. Devonian Health Group (Healthcare sweep) discarded immediately for market cap (~$31M CAD, far below the $500M min). Step 6 -- IMPORTANT: this session's toolset does not include the Questrade MCP tools (list_accounts, get_balances, get_positions, preview_order_instruction, create_order_instruction, get_order_history) that Step 6 requires, unlike run_daily_scan.sh's actual cron invocation which allow-lists mcp__Questrade__* explicitly. This is the same gap the 2026-08-26 scan flagged when it had zero new_buys and so nothing to act on -- today it matters directly, because CAR.UN scored a genuine 5/5 new_buy and its order could NOT be placed. I did not fabricate a live-balance-based position size (position_sizer.py needs real get_balances/get_positions data per Step 6.3-6.5, not positions.json's stale figures) and did not attempt any Questrade calls. I sent a high-priority ntfy alert directly via ntfy_alert.py (which is a local script, not gated behind the missing MCP tools) telling the user CAR.UN scored a new_buy that could not be auto-placed and to either place it manually via place_trade_prompt.md or confirm the real cron-invoked session has mcp__Questrade__* connected. order_status on CAR.UN's entry is set to 'not_executed_questrade_tools_unavailable' (outside the documented enum, chosen because none of the documented values -- all of which imply a Questrade call was actually attempted -- accurately describe this session never having the tools to attempt one) to keep the output file's audit trail honest rather than mislabeling this as a guardrail skip or account-ambiguity abort that didn't happen.", "candidates_evaluated_count": 24, "sectors_evaluated": ["Energy", "Utilities", "Materials", "Industrials", "Communication Services", "Real Estate", "Consumer Discretionary", "Financials", "Technology", "Healthcare"], "lessons_applied": [ "narrow_funnel: 18 Step 1c watchlist re-checks plus all 7 screener_sources entries (sector sweep rotated to Healthcare) plus XEG/XIT ETF lookups evaluated 24 distinct tickers across 10 sectors, clearing min_candidates_evaluated_per_scan (15) and min_sectors_represented (5)", "unconfirmed_volume pattern: resolved constructively for CAR.UN -- a real volume figure (0.73x 20-day avg) confirmed 'volume declining on pullback,' completing its setup_A score to 5/5 and promoting it to new_buys; ABX's confirmed volume miss (0.66x) carried through to a genuine exclusion instead of staying pending", "unconfirmed_resistance_level: BCE's $38 level carried forward from yesterday; EIF and CLS still lack a defined level", "unconfirmed_macd_reading: MDA's -0.29 MACD confirmed unchanged for a 2nd day, used to move it to excluded on real data rather than left pending", "deferred_megacap_moved: retrospective's list was empty, no override needed; recurring_megacap_handling's standard deferral WAS applied today (Thursday) to SU, SHOP, CSU, GIB.A, DSG -- all ETF-only sourced, none independently confirmed" ], "signals": { "new_buys": [ { "rank": 1, "ticker": "CAR.UN", "company": "Canadian Apartment Properties REIT (CAPREIT)", "sector": "Real Estate", "price_cad": 33.86, "setup_type": "pullback", "setup_score": 5, "rsi_14": 55.8, "macd_positive": true, "above_200d_ema": true, "pe_ratio": null, "next_earnings": null, "entry_zone_cad": "33.60-34.10", "stop_cad": 32.54, "t1_cad": 35.84, "t2_cad": 37.82, "t3_cad": null, "green_flags": [ "Volume declining on pullback (~0.73x 20-day avg, selling pressure drying up)", "MACD +0.160 buy signal", "Consensus analyst rating Buy", "Price above 200d EMA and within setup_A pullback proximity to 50d EMA, 3rd evaluated day finally confirming all 5 setup_A points" ], "red_flags": [ "ATR14 figure (0.53) sourced from May 2026 data, predates the stock's subsequent ~23% 52-week decline -- stop distance may be tighter than current realized volatility warrants; a second search for a fresher ATR did not find one", "RSI reported as a 50.4-55.8 range across sources/days rather than one clean same-day figure", "P/E not meaningfully available for this REIT (FFO multiple is the standard metric here, not confirmed today)" ], "order_status": "not_executed_questrade_tools_unavailable", "order_id": null, "fill_price_cad": null, "fill_shares": null } ], "holds": [], "exits": [], "watchlist": [ { "ticker": "LUN", "waiting_for": "Lundin Mining (Materials): RSI/MACD (56.154/0.212) came back byte-for-byte identical for a 2nd consecutive check -- confirmed permanently stale/cached, no longer usable at all; score off price action alone going forward per Step 1c. Price recovered to $37.22 today (from $35.23), still below the prior $38.07 level. 5th trading day on watchlist (since 2026-08-21). Needs either a genuinely different technical source or a clean reclaim of $38.07.", "trigger_price_cad": 38.07, "trigger_direction": "above" }, { "ticker": "BCE", "waiting_for": "BCE Inc. (Communication Services), 3rd day evaluated. MACD's 3-month buy signal persists; no same-day RSI or volume found again today. Resistance level from yesterday ($38, support $32.58/$31.07) unchanged. Needs a same-day RSI and volume read tomorrow -- escalate to excluded if unresolved a 3rd time.", "trigger_price_cad": 38.00, "trigger_direction": "above" }, { "ticker": "DOL", "waiting_for": "Dollarama (Consumer Discretionary), 3rd day evaluated. RSI now reads oversold (29.1) alongside a break below the 20d/50d EMAs -- shifts the operative thesis from setup_A pullback to setup_C oversold reversal per the rsi_oversold_carveout. Price fell to $185.05 (from $195.06), still ~+2.6% above its 200d EMA. Needs a bullish reversal candle, curling RSI, and rising volume to confirm setup_C.", "trigger_price_cad": null, "trigger_direction": null }, { "ticker": "EIF", "waiting_for": "Exchange Income Corp (Industrials), 2nd day evaluated. Still no defined resistance/consolidation level and no current-day volume ratio (only a 20-day average of 109,864 shares found). RSI/MACD/200MA remain favorable, Scotiabank price target raised to $145. Re-check tomorrow for resistance level and today's volume -- 3rd flagged day tomorrow triggers the exclude-on-repeat rule if still unresolved.", "trigger_price_cad": null, "trigger_direction": null }, { "ticker": "X", "waiting_for": "TMX Group (Financials), 2nd day evaluated. 200MA cross ($56.44) now appears sustained -- 50MA ($57.05) sitting above suggests the stock has held its breakout from about a week ago -- but RSI (42.87) and MACD (-0.19) both lean bearish/marginal and no explicit today's price figure was found. Re-check tomorrow for an explicit current price plus a resolved RSI/MACD read before scoring.", "trigger_price_cad": 56.44, "trigger_direction": "above" }, { "ticker": "BMO", "waiting_for": "Bank of Montreal (Financials), 2nd day evaluated. Yesterday's price-coherence issue resolved: today's clean $255.87 (up 1.40%) is consistent with the $259.20 Aug 17 all-time high, confirming the earlier $120.52 200SMA figure was bad/mismatched data. Q3 earnings (reported Aug 25) beat strongly (EPS +22% YoY). No fresh RSI/MACD/200EMA read found today -- yesterday's pre-earnings reading is stale. Re-check tomorrow for a fresh post-earnings technical read.", "trigger_price_cad": null, "trigger_direction": null }, { "ticker": "BNS", "waiting_for": "Bank of Nova Scotia (Financials), 2nd day evaluated. Price $94.66, well above its 200SMA ($77.41, +22%), Q3 earnings beat (Aug 25) behind it. Still no resistance/consolidation level or volume ratio found; yesterday's favorable RSI (60.22)/MACD (1.276 buy) not re-confirmed today. Re-check tomorrow for a resistance level and volume -- 3rd flagged day tomorrow if still unresolved.", "trigger_price_cad": null, "trigger_direction": null }, { "ticker": "CLS", "waiting_for": "Celestica (Technology), 2nd day evaluated -- independently sourced (Globe and Mail institutional-accumulation list), not ETF-only, so not subject to today's mega-cap deferral. RSI and MACD readings remain split across sources (RSI 62.447 buy vs 49.29 neutral; MACD 5.480/4.14 buy vs a 3-month sell signal), and StockInvest.us's 'Strong Sell Candidate' rating (-5.59, -22.16% since an Aug 4 pivot-top sell) directly conflicts with an 8-buy/0-sell daily read. Per the RSI/data-conflict rule, carried forward rather than discarded. Price ~2.6% above its 50d EMA, just outside setup_A's ~2% proximity band. Re-check tomorrow for a tie-breaking source.", "trigger_price_cad": null, "trigger_direction": null } ] }, "excluded": [ { "ticker": "CNQ", "reason": "Canadian Natural Resources (Energy). 7th trading day on watchlist since 2026-08-19 -- reached funnel_breadth.watchlist_max_carry_trading_days (7) without confirming the setup. Finally got a clean same-day CAD price ($63.60) resolving yesterday's USD/CAD confusion, but it remains well below the $70.30 breakout trigger. Moved to excluded per the carry-limit rule.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "CVE", "reason": "Cenovus Energy (Energy). 7th trading day on watchlist since 2026-08-19 -- reached the 7-day carry limit. No same-day price, RSI, or volume was found again (freshest confirmed price remains $45.39 from 2026-08-21); the $45.94 all-time-high trigger was never confirmed crossed. Moved to excluded per the carry-limit rule.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "CU", "reason": "Canadian Utilities (Utilities). 7th trading day on watchlist since 2026-08-19 -- reached the 7-day carry limit. Today's clean data shows price actually fell to $52.54 (from $55.72), further from the $56.90 breakout trigger, on very thin volume (~0.12x the 20-day average). Moved to excluded per the carry-limit rule.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "ABX", "reason": "Barrick Mining (Materials). 3rd evaluated day. Breakout-day volume confirmed yesterday at ~0.66x the 20-day average (below the 1.2x threshold) -- a genuine miss, not a missing figure. Today adds a single-source RSI of 77.94 (above the aggressive 72 ceiling, not itself grounds for exclusion under the 2-source rule, but reinforces a stalling breakout); Globe and Mail also reports miners broadly reversed today (Barrick -3.6%). Setup_B no longer supported by confirmed data.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "AEM", "reason": "Agnico Eagle Mines (Materials). 3rd evaluated day with the RSI straddle (48.3 vs 82.6) still unresolved -- no fresh same-day technical reading was found again today. Per Step 1c's rule against repeating an unchanged note a 3rd consecutive scan, moved to excluded. Gold miners broadly reversed today (Agnico -4.2% per Globe and Mail).", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "WPM", "reason": "Wheaton Precious Metals (Materials). 3rd evaluated day with RSI still single-source 'above 70' and no second source or precise figure ever obtained; the $208 resistance level never resolved against WPM's known price scale. Per Step 1c's 3-consecutive-scan rule, moved to excluded. Miners broadly reversed today (WPM -4.3% per Globe and Mail).", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "K", "reason": "Kinross Gold (Materials). 3rd evaluated day. Price is now confirmed clearly above its 200MA ($32.18 vs $29.10, resolving yesterday's near-parity ambiguity), but RSI dropped to 38 (from 60.05 two days ago) and MACD turned negative (-0.224, sell) -- the 'forming bullish crossover' thesis did not hold up on today's confirmed data.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "AC", "reason": "Air Canada (Industrials). 3rd flagged day with internally conflicting RSI (35.6 vs 69.6), MACD (-0.30 vs +1.52), and 200MA ($23.74 vs $21.26) readings, essentially unchanged from the prior two scans. Per Step 1c's rule against repeating an unchanged note a 3rd time, moved to excluded.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "MDA", "reason": "MDA Space (Industrials). 2nd evaluated day. Price ($36.06) confirmed clearly above its 200MA/EMA ($32.37), resolving yesterday's missing-price gap, but MACD reads a genuine sell (-0.29, unchanged and now confirmed real) and volume remains well below average (~0.35x). Doesn't fit setup_A, setup_B, or setup_C on today's data despite strong fundamentals (Q2 revenue +34% YoY, raised guidance).", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "Devonian Health Group", "reason": "Devonian Health Group (Healthcare). Surfaced via today's Healthcare sector sweep. Market cap ~$31M CAD, far below the $500M min_market_cap_cad threshold -- immediate Step 3 fundamental discard, no technical checks run.", "price_cad": null }, { "ticker": "SU", "reason": "Suncor Energy Inc. (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": 91.44 }, { "ticker": "SHOP", "reason": "Shopify Inc. (Technology). Resurfaced only via XIT top-holdings lookup -- recurring mega-cap name, not individually reconfirmed today (funnel_breadth.recurring_megacap_handling). Weekly reconfirmation runs Wednesdays.", "price_cad": 210.70 }, { "ticker": "CSU", "reason": "Constellation Software Inc. (Technology). Resurfaced only via XIT top-holdings lookup -- recurring mega-cap name, not individually reconfirmed today (funnel_breadth.recurring_megacap_handling). Weekly reconfirmation runs Wednesdays.", "price_cad": 3078.66 }, { "ticker": "GIB.A", "reason": "CGI Inc. (Technology). Resurfaced only via XIT top-holdings lookup -- recurring mega-cap name, not individually reconfirmed today (funnel_breadth.recurring_megacap_handling). Weekly reconfirmation runs Wednesdays.", "price_cad": 74.93 }, { "ticker": "DSG", "reason": "The Descartes Systems Group (Technology). Resurfaced only via XIT top-holdings lookup -- recurring mega-cap name, not individually reconfirmed today (funnel_breadth.recurring_megacap_handling). Weekly reconfirmation runs Wednesdays.", "price_cad": 108.78 } ] }