est. 2026 / ironclaw labs
paper · day 0

file: 1k2rich.live.v1

1K 2RICH

a thousand to riches.
one bankroll. one bot. privately in public.

stake $1,000.00
now $1,000.00
δ +0.00%

paper · pre-launch · auto-updates when live

01
watch
TikTok / @1k2rich
live sessions. wins. losses. unfiltered.
02
signals
Telegram / @1k2rich
every trade, every event, the moment it fires. (linking soon.)
03
receipts
GitHub / 1k2rich-trades
the immutable trade log. csv. every fill. zero edits. (committing soon.)

what this is

the stake

$1,000. real. my last. not a paper experiment past the launch line.

the bot

a QQQ low-DTE options bot i built. ICT signals. one trade at a time. weekday open window.

the rules

every trade auto-posts. every fill auto-commits. no cherry-picking. no edits. no influencer math.

the deal

free to follow. always. paid services maybe later. (see disclaimer.)

— build phase / paper / pre-launch —

the legacy files

16 paper trades, 2026-04-28 → 2026-05-21. not real money. this is the stress test — the bot, my discipline, the strategy. green days, red days, the -$807 day, the -$745 day, the back-to-back. you see what the bot did. you see what i learned. you see why $1,000 live is the next chapter, not the first one.

trades
16
paper start
$1,000
paper end
$1,287
paper δ
+28.7%
best
+$660
worst
-$807
  1. 01
    apr 28
    PUT QQQ 659 · 1DTE take profit
    opening day. score 90/60. bearish OB + three FVG. 38 min in, hit +43% on the option. clean kill.
    +$406
    → $1,406
  2. 02
    apr 29
    PUT QQQ 657 · 1DTE time stop
    thesis didn't develop. held to the 45-min cap, bled out. -13%. lesson: time stop matters more than you think.
    -$125
    → $1,281
  3. 03
    apr 30
    CALL QQQ 661 · 1DTE stop loss
    7 minutes in, hit hard SL. wrong direction. -26%. fastest red of the run.
    -$225
    → $1,056
  4. 04
    may 01
    CALL QQQ 671 · 1DTE take profit
    bullish OB with 7.4× body avg. 18 minutes to +43%. recovered the week.
    +$379
    → $1,435
  5. 05
    may 05
    CALL QQQ 680 · 1DTE manual close
    in green. closed by hand before time stop / TP risk. +13%. not what the bot would have done.
    +$182
    → $1,617
  6. 06
    may 06
    CALL QQQ 688 · 1DTE manual close
    closed by hand before TP. -8%. proved the point: bot > me on exits.
    -$122
    → $1,495
  7. 07
    may 07
    CALL QQQ 697 · 1DTE take profit
    5 bullish FVGs stacked. +39% in 41 min. clean.
    +$455
    → $1,950
  8. 08
    may 11
    PUT QQQ 714 · 1DTE time stop
    late entry (11:06). 47 min, bled to -18%. weekend gap reset the structure.
    -$310
    → $1,640
  9. 09
    may 12
    PUT QQQ 709 · 1DTE trail stop
    moved in our favor, then reversed. trail caught it at -6%. small loss is a good loss.
    -$80
    → $1,560
  10. 10
    may 13
    CALL QQQ 706 · 1DTE take profit
    magnet target $714.46. 65 min to TP. +41% on the option. biggest paper green.
    +$614
    → $2,173
  11. 11
    may 14
    CALL QQQ 718 · 1DTE trail stop
    +24% locked via trail after MFE +37%. wins running, trail tightening at +30%.
    +$466
    → $2,639
  12. 12
    may 15
    PUT QQQ 707 · 1DTE stop loss
    the bad one. wrong-direction PUT into a violent reversal. -33% in 10 min. gap-through filled below SL. the trade that forced the SL/sizing rewrite.
    -$807
    → $1,832
  13. 13
    may 18
    PUT QQQ 711 · 1DTE take profit
    monday rebound. magnet $705.58. +36% in 9 min. recovery after the worst day.
    +$660
    → $2,492
  14. 14
    may 19
    CALL QQQ 703 · 1DTE stop loss
    11 min, hit SL. magnet target was $715 — never got there. the reversal that started the rough stretch.
    -$745
    → $1,747
  15. 15
    may 20
    PUT QQQ 704 · 1DTE stop loss
    back-to-back red. -50% on the option. wrong-direction PUT, market ripped up. the second proof that wider SL + smaller size matters.
    -$718
    → $1,028
  16. 16
    may 21
    PUT QQQ 712 · 1DTE trail stop
    recovery. +26% via trail. paper closes the run near $1,287.
    +$258
    → $1,287

end of paper. next entry: live, on alpaca. $1,000. real money. the journal continues — same csv, same channel, same receipts.

— roadmap / not v1 / do not ask —