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Trade confirmations benchmarked against SPY

He built a dashboard with Muse that reads his trade-confirmation emails and benchmarks each trade against SPY since the trade: buys earn positive alpha when the stock beats SPY, sells when SPY beats the stock.

MMostly Borrowed Ideas ·2026-09-10 ·x.com

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Copy this to Muse and replace the [brackets] with your own details:

Find all my [broker] trade confirmations in email, compare each trade's performance since execution with [benchmark], and build a dashboard.

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