CRUX is a private investment research and decision-support system. It connects evidence, historical context and paper testing, so ideas can be examined and decisions revisited over time.
The $10,000 paper portfolio
——from the $10,000 basis
Valued at
Real market prices. Simulated capital. Price-only valuation: excludes dividends, fees and taxes. Lines connect recorded valuations, not every market tick.
Existing paper portfolio. The separate five-path trial has not started; no trial results are shown here.
An ongoing body of research, not just a running balance.
CRUX brings source-linked research, historical comparisons and documented paper decisions into one working environment.
It keeps prior findings and open questions available as new information arrives: what informed a decision, what remains uncertain and what happened next.
A separate five-path paper trial is being prepared. Evidence-linked decisions, cost accounting and interruption recovery have passed local synthetic checks; live-market validation is still ahead.
This is one paper experiment within CRUX, normalized to a $10,000 starting basis, not real capital. The chart follows published observations across their recorded times, not every market tick. Changes are measured from the starting basis, not from the previous day.
Return to the portfolioPublished observations only. Dates without a time identify the recorded session day; exact timestamps are shown in your local time.
| Recorded at | Value (USD) | Continuity |
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Automatic checks look for the latest complete valuation. When a newer mark cannot be verified, the last complete mark keeps its original timestamp. Price updates do not establish that a new investment decision was made.
This is a pre-tax price record, not a total-return or after-cost performance record. The broad-market reference uses the original charter convention, not a fill-matched trading comparison. The chart scale fits the recorded values; its visual slope is not a percentage loss.
Designed and built by Zac Gibson, CRUX is a personal project in research tooling, measurement and interface design. This page shares one experiment's aggregate results. The method is not published.
More of my workPaper only. No real capital. No brokerage connection. Not independently audited; not performance proof. Nothing here is investment advice or a promise of future results.