About Me

§1 · Background

Who I am.

I'm Caleb, based in Birmingham, Alabama. I've been in manufacturing for 10+ years. My hobbies are trading and software development, and this project sits at the intersection of the two.

Day job trains a specific muscle: when something in a plant runs badly, you don't get to tell yourself a story about why it's fine. You measure it, you test it, and the numbers either back you up or they don't. The Plumbline Trading Suite is the same instinct applied to a trade log.

§2 · Trading Journey

Six years, honestly.

Where I started, where I've been, and where I actually am today — no airbrushing.

I started trading crypto in 2020 like a lot of people did, then rotated into small caps, then large caps, and eventually landed in futures after a coworker introduced me to them. I've been at this for six years.

Honestly, I've been break-even to slightly profitable the whole time — which is better than most retail traders but nowhere near where I want to be. That gap is the whole reason this toolkit exists.

§3 · Why Plumbline

The tool I actually needed.

The Plumbline Trading Suite is what I built to hopefully change that. Each Stage answers a question I kept hitting in my own workflow.

• Stage I helps me build strategies.
• Stage II verifies the backtest results.
• Stage III checks how they fit with what I already run.
• Stage IV uses Prop Firm Verification to help identify which prop firm account best fits a particular strategy.

§4 · The Journal

Put my money where my math is.

The journal is where I plan to document my journey using the Plumbline Trading Suite software. Every eval, every prediction, every outcome. Wins and losses.

If Plumbline works, you'll see it in the record. If it doesn't, you'll see that too. That's the whole point — a validation toolkit is only credible if the person who built it is willing to be validated by it in public.