Week of March 22, 2026 — Initial Deployment and Announcement

Portfolio performance

ALFRED paper portfolio: Starting Saturday March 21, 2026 , ALFRED is a fully functioning hybrid-signal algorithmic trading system — 4-signal engine combining technical, fundamental, sentiment, and ML signals via a LightGBM alpha model. Starting today with a clean $100,000 paper portfolio, I am Tarandeep Singh Plaha : the developer and sole benefactor of Alfred's Trading advances as of now. I will be releasing this "CIO" letters every sunday to track Alfred's positional progress and log improvements for the public knowledge.

Market observation

SPY seems to be correcting a bit in context of the recent tension built-up in the middle east, The markets is reacting to the news flashes as they come, Contributing to that the British bond market has taken a dive, probably putting pressure on the global markets due to rising war jitters. Commodities looking weak, VIX rising signaling rising pressure.

What I'm changing

I will be keeping a close watch on Alfred's real time performance in order to dynamically resolve any issues that arises, but as of now with all the backtesting and production test, I am confident that we wont be needing much to change, but always being keen and open to change when needed.

What I'm watching for

In my view the global markets are about to enter a consolidation phase with occasional jitters leading to regional blood baths in the market, but rising pressure from Isreal, and my view is that this is a buying opportunity due to the discounted prices. Looking forward to a bull run in the coming sessions. Naturally I expect alfred to position itself accordingly, will keep the updates posted on the coming letters.