30 minutes

Your First Watchlist

Define a watchlist with a written thesis, arm a stop-loss watcher, and let the threat engine run a first end-to-end mission — in under 30 minutes.

What you are deploying

A live watchlist wired to:

Continuous threat engine runs against your tickers
Investment Diary thesis & Day-1 conditions
Armed stop-loss watcher (alerts when threshold crossed)
Signals with evidence delivered to terminal + webhook

Prerequisites

What you need

  • ✓ A Telumin subscription
  • ✓ A 3-line written thesis ready (the Diary needs it before thesis-guard checks can run)

Setup steps

1.

Create a watchlist

Navigate to Watchlists → New. Add tickers, pick a benchmark, and choose a target weighting model (equal-weight, conviction-weighted, or custom).

watchlist:
  name: core-long-2026
  tickers: [NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, META, AVGO]
  weighting: conviction-weighted
  benchmark: SPY
  cadence: market-hours-sweep
2.

Write the thesis (Investment Diary)

Open the Investment Diary entry for the watchlist. Three lines: what you believe, what Day-1 conditions must remain true, and what would force you out.

# core-long-2026 thesis
Belief: Sustained AI capex tailwind drives data-center revenue
        higher than consensus through 2026.
Day-1:
  - Hyperscaler capex guidance not cut more than 5% YoY
  - GPU lead times remain >12 weeks
  - No major China export-control escalation
Exit:
  - Any Day-1 broken (Skeptic-confirmed)
  - Trailing stop -8% from post-entry high
3.

Arm a stop-loss watcher

In Watchlist → Stop Policy, pick a threshold. The watcher monitors market data tick-by-tick and fires an alert deterministically when crossed.

Trailing -8% (recommended)
Liquid US large-cap default
Thesis-break stop
Fires when a Day-1 is broken
Fixed stop
Manual price floor
4.

Pick a cadence

How often should the threat engine re-evaluate this watchlist? Choose conservatively to start; promote to faster cadence later if your thesis needs it.

Continuous

Event-driven — active thesis

Market-hours sweep

Recommended default

EOD digest

Lowest noise; daily review

5.

Arm the watchlist

Click Arm. Temporal workflows for the threat engine, Trailing Stop, and Thesis Guard start. Status is visible in the dashboard or the Signal API.

# Verify status via the Signal API
curl https://api.telumin.com/v1/watchlists/core-long-2026 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TELUMIN_API_KEY"

# Expected response:
{
  "name": "core-long-2026",
  "status": "ARMED",
  "diary": "complete",
  "stop_watcher": "watching",
  "last_signal": "2026-04-25T14:22:01Z"
}
6.

Review the first signal

Within the first cadence cycle a Skeptic-cleared signal will appear in Signals. Each signal links to its pipeline trace, source evidence, quant context, and (if applicable) the trade record.

Sample signal header

NVDA — LONG — Confidence 0.91

2026-04-25 14:22 UTC · Skeptic: PASS · Sources: 2 verified (8-K + earnings call)

Q1 print and earnings call confirm Day-1 conditions intact: data-center revenue +12% vs consensus, hyperscaler capex guidance unchanged. Trailing stop reference updated to post-print high.

Next steps

Watchlist armed

Your first watchlist is armed. Let it run for a week and review the signals and evidence before relying on the alerts.