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S&P 500 Super Intelligence: automated S&P 500 trading in your own Alpaca account.
+162.0% since 4 Jan 2021 against +111.1% for holding the S&P 500 (IVV), total return
Strategy: Price +152.9% · Dividends +8.0% · T-bill interest +1.1% · Total +162.0%
Holding IVV: Price +103.5% · Dividends +7.6% · Total +111.1% · prices only 1.24x
$10,000 is $26,201 against $21,107 · at $766.67, close of 16 Oct
Since Jan 2021 · 45 of 69 months positive
Total return · prices only +1.44%
IVV price
The S&P 500 fund the strategy trades (iShares Core S&P 500, IVV): its official daily close since January 2021, from Alpaca. Split adjusted, not adjusted for dividends. With the averages the strategy reads: the 30-day exponential average for its exit and the 20-day exponential average for its entry. The dashed lilac line is the account's growth over the same days as a multiple of its start (1x), on its own scale.
Performance, trailing 48 months
S&P 500 Super Intelligence's total return in each month as bars, the growth of its capital as the line over them, including this month to date: the price, the dividends and the T-bill interest together.
Capital is the account that follows every decision since January 2021, valued at each month's last daily close, with the dividends and Treasury-bill interest it received to date; the running month is valued at its latest daily close.
Performance against holding the S&P 500
Since January 2021 (5.8 years), month-end values and falls on daily closes, against the same money simply held in IVV, total return on both sidesagainst +13.8% a year holding the S&P 500
IVV held fell 24.5%
how far the record sits below its own best close
against 0.95 holding the S&P 500; higher is better
best +9.9%, worst -9.0%
on average since the first buy; the rest waited in short-term Treasury bills, ready to buy the fall
6 of 9 closed · grid buys 75%, main holding 60%
on what members hold now, against what it cost · 1 member
Month-end values: the strategy's record at each month's last daily close with the dividends and Treasury-bill interest it received, and IVV held with its dividends on the same days (total return on both sides; the parts are below); the falls on every daily close, with the income received to date. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.
Return components
$10,000 since 4 Jan 2021: what the price made, then the dividends and the Treasury-bill interest, then the total, for S&P 500 Super Intelligence and for IVV simply held.
| Component | S&P 500 Super Intelligence | Holding IVV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | +$15,295 +152.9% | +$10,351 +103.5% |
| Dividends | +$799.87 +8.0% | +$755.99 +7.6% |
| T-bill interest | +$105.98 +1.1% | none, always invested |
| Total | +$16,201 +162.0% | +$11,107 +111.1% |
In USD on the $10,000 start, and in per cent of it; the parts add up to the total. Dividends and interest are counted as received, not reinvested; a member's own account reinvests them, which compounds a little more. Dividends from Alpaca's corporate actions; the interest is what SGOV, the Treasury-bill fund the cash waits in, paid. Against holding: 1.24x in total, 1.24x on prices only.
Strategy record by month
The last twelve complete months of the account that started with $10,000 in January 2021 and follows every decision of S&P 500 Super Intelligence, valued at each month's last daily close with the dividends and T-bill interest received, and the month running now. Start and End are that account's value in each month, so they carry all its growth since January 2021, not only these months.
| Month | Start | End | Return | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 to date | $26,174 | $26,201 | +0.10% | |
| Sep 2026 | $26,284 | $26,174 | -0.42% | |
| Aug 2026 | $25,610 | $26,284 | +2.63% | |
| Jul 2026 | $25,563 | $25,610 | +0.18% | |
| Jun 2026 | $25,885 | $25,563 | -1.24% | |
| May 2026 | $24,612 | $25,885 | +5.17% | |
| Apr 2026 | $23,368 | $24,612 | +5.32% | |
| Mar 2026 | $24,956 | $23,368 | -6.36% | |
| Feb 2026 | $25,155 | $24,956 | -0.79% | |
| Jan 2026 | $24,800 | $25,155 | +1.43% | |
| Dec 2025 | $24,809 | $24,800 | -0.04% | |
| Nov 2025 | $24,751 | $24,809 | +0.23% | |
| Oct 2025 | $24,191 | $24,751 | +2.31% |
7 of 12 of these months positive. Since January 2021: average +1.49% a month, median +2.06%, 45 of 69 months positive.
Strategy record by year
Each calendar year of S&P 500 Super Intelligence against IVV held through the same year, total return on both sides, each with the year's worst fall muted beneath, the average share of the capital deployed in the year, and the buys and sales in it.
| Year | Strategy | IVV held | Capital deployed | Buys / sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 to date | +5.6%worst fall -8.6% | +12.1%worst fall -8.8% | 96% | 1 / 1 |
| 2025 | +25.6%worst fall -11.7% | +16.8%worst fall -18.3% | 93% | 2 / 2 |
| 2024 | +23.8%worst fall -8.2% | +23.7%worst fall -8.2% | 100% | 0 / 0 |
| 2023 | +25.2%worst fall -9.9% | +25.0%worst fall -9.8% | 100% | 0 / 0 |
| 2022 | -0.2%worst fall -15.3% | -18.4%worst fall -24.5% | 69% | 6 / 6 |
| 2021 | +27.7%worst fall -5.2% | +27.7%worst fall -5.2% | 100% | 1 / 0 |
Returns from month-end values, the worst falls on every daily close, before tax. A year spent mostly out of the market is where the strategy falls less than IVV; a strong year for IVV is where holding can be ahead. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.
Bot health
The markers S&P 500 Super Intelligence keeps while it runs. Green is healthy, amber is watched, red needs attention.
Read from the strategy job's own state and log at the moment this page was built.
S&P 500 data & metrics
The S&P 500 through the fund the strategy trades, IVV: official daily closes from Alpaca.
- Last close
- $766.67 -1.10% on the day
- Year to date
- +11.9%
- One year
- +15.5%
- 52-week high close
- $782.54 6 Oct 2026
- 52-week low close
- $634.93 30 Mar 2026
- From the 52-week high
- -2.0%
- History
- 2,713 sessions since 4 Jan 2016
One fund that holds about 500 of the largest US companies.
The S&P 500 is an index: a list of about 500 of the largest companies on the US stock market, each counted in proportion to its size. Together they make up roughly four fifths of the market's value, which is why it is the usual measure of how US shares are doing.
IVV is the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF, a fund run by BlackRock, under its iShares name. It owns the shares of the companies in the index in the same proportions, so one share of IVV moves with the S&P 500 and collects its dividends. It is one of the largest funds in the world and trades on the stock exchange like any share, which is what lets the strategy buy and sell the whole index in a single order.
- Fund
- iShares Core S&P 500 ETF ticker IVV
- Run by
- BlackRock iShares
- Fund size
- $879.6 billion net assets, 16 October 2026
- Shares in issue
- 1.15 billion 16 October 2026
- Value behind one share
- $766.76 net asset value, 16 October 2026
- Companies held
- 505 15 October 2026
- Tracks
- S&P 500 Index large US companies
- Price to earnings
- 29.3 15 October 2026
- Dividend yield
- 1.1% last 12 months, 30 September 2026
- Dividends
- Quarterly paid in cash to the holder
- Yearly cost of the fund
- 0.03% taken inside the fund's price
- Launched
- 15 May 2000 listed on NYSE Arca
Fund figures from iShares, read several times a day; each carries the date the fund gives it (the fund publishes once a trading day, some figures monthly). THISTLE.CAPITAL is not connected with BlackRock, iShares or S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Performance by year
S&P 500 Super Intelligence's total return in each calendar year, and beneath it, muted, the year's worst fall: the deepest drop from a high during that year, on daily closes. The running year is to date.
Performance by month
S&P 500 Super Intelligence's total return in each month since January 2021: average +1.49% a month, median +2.06%, 45 of 69 months positive. The running month is to date.
Source: Alpaca's daily bars for IVV (the consolidated tape's official close, split adjusted), kept current by the strategy after every session. The monthly record is the account that follows every decision since January 2021, valued at each month's last daily close, with the dividends and Treasury-bill interest it received to date (total return); the running month is valued at its latest close.
Trade record
The strategy's record since January 2021, newest first: every decision S&P 500 Super Intelligence has made. Members trade the same decisions in their own Alpaca account, at their own balance.
| Trades | Count | In profit | Average | By size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All closed | 9 | 6 (66.7%) | +9.81% | +11.52% |
| Core sold | 5 | 3 (60.0%) | +12.71% | +16.75% |
| Grid lots sold at their target | 3 | 3 (100.0%) | +8.70% | +8.70% |
| Grid lots sold with the core | 1 | 0 (0.0%) | -1.38% | -1.38% |
| Open now | 1 | 1 (100.0%) | +12.02% | +12.02% |
| # | Position | Capital deployed |
Symbol | Bought | Sold | Result | How it ended | Held |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Core buy 100% | 100% 100% in total |
IVV |
684.42
10 Apr 2026
|
Running
766.69
price now
|
+12.02% so far
|
open | 6.3 months so far |
| 9 | Core buy 100% | 100% 100% in total |
IVV |
567.37
2 May 2025
|
Core sale
642.98
30 Mar 2026
|
+13.33% gain
|
Sold on exit | 10.9 months |
| 8 | Grid #1 buy 100% | 100% 100% in total |
IVV |
517.03
4 Apr 2025
|
Grid #1 sale
561.99
1 May 2025
|
+8.70% gain
|
Sold at target | 27 days |
| 7 | Core buy 100% | 100% 100% in total |
IVV |
383.21
26 Oct 2022
|
Core sale
561.99
11 Mar 2025
|
+46.65% gain
|
Sold on exit | 28.5 months |
| 6 | Grid #1 buy 100% | 100% 100% in total |
IVV |
349.70
13 Oct 2022
|
Grid #1 sale
380.11
24 Oct 2022
|
+8.70% gain
|
Sold at target | 11 days |
| 5 | Core buy 7.97% | 7.97% 100% in total |
IVV |
400.99
22 Jul 2022
|
Core sale
380.11
22 Sep 2022
|
-5.21% loss
|
Sold on exit | 2.0 months |
| 4 | Grid #1 buy 100% | 100% 100% in total |
IVV |
385.42
13 Jun 2022
|
Grid #1 sold with core
380.11
22 Sep 2022
|
-1.38% loss
|
Sold on exit | 3.3 months |
| 3 | Grid #1 buy 100% | 100% 100% in total |
IVV |
385.42
20 May 2022
|
Grid #1 sale
418.94
2 Jun 2022
|
+8.70% gain
|
Sold at target | 13 days |
| 2 | Core buy 100% | 100% 100% in total |
IVV |
447.72
21 Mar 2022
|
Core sale
418.94
27 Apr 2022
|
-6.43% loss
|
Sold on exit | 37 days |
| 1 | Core buy 100% | 100% 100% in total |
IVV |
376.69
4 Jan 2021
|
Core sale
433.95
24 Jan 2022
|
+15.20% gain
|
Sold on exit | 12.6 months |
Prices are in US dollars, per share of IVV. A closed trade's result is its sale against its buy; an open trade's is the price now against its buy. Grid lots still held when the trend comes back stay open beside the core buy, which spends the cash they left: they are sold with it at the exit, each with its own result. Fills in each member's account can differ slightly from these prices; your Alpaca statement is the record of your own trades.
Supported brokers
Where S&P 500 Super Intelligence trades: your own Alpaca account.
| Broker | |
|---|---|
| Alpaca | Open account |
You connect your own Alpaca account with its API keys. Alpaca keys have no permission settings, so keep yours private; the system only places and cancels orders, and your money stays in your own account.
How S&P 500 Super Intelligence trades
One market, the S&P 500 through an index fund, one set of rules, and every connected Alpaca account trading them at its own balance.
- Holds the index fund while the market is strong. In an established uptrend the whole balance sits in an S&P 500 index fund.
- Steps aside when the trend turns. When its signals say the uptrend is over, the holding is sold and the cash waits in short-term US Treasury bills. The sale can be below its buy price.
- Buys one deep grid lot. After a sale the cash waits in Treasury bills for a single buy well under the sale price, and that buy is sold back at the sale price.
- Returns in full when the trend is back. Once the market has turned up again, everything goes back into the index fund and the cycle starts over.
- No leverage, no borrowing, no shorting. A cash account is all it needs, and no stop loss: a fall is met with buying.
- Members copy it at their own balance. The same decision is placed in every connected Alpaca account, sized from that account's own cash and shares.
How it works
From joining to S&P 500 Super Intelligence trading your balance.
- Subscribe or own an NFT. Subscribe for $50 a month, or own a Fungibles NFT for lifetime access. The same membership covers Bitcoin and the S&P 500.
- Sign in. With the link we email you, or with MetaMask if you hold an NFT.
- Open an Alpaca account. S&P 500 Super Intelligence trades in your own live account at Alpaca, a US broker. A cash account is enough.
- Add your Alpaca keys. In your account here, choose Alpaca and paste the API Key ID and the Secret Key from your live Alpaca account. No passphrase and no address list: Alpaca keys cannot be limited to addresses, so keep yours private.
- Keep cash in the account. The system buys the index fund with the cash in your account and sells it back to cash; between the two the cash can wait in Treasury bills. Your position grows with your account.
- Minimum 1,000 USD: below that the system trades as if 1,000, each order capped at the cash available. Smaller orders buy fractions of a share.
- Transparency and safety. Your money stays in your own Alpaca account. The system places and cancels orders there and never moves money in or out.