{
  "url": "https://www.moonstonehq.com/articles/the-autopsy-weekly-buys-losers",
  "slug": "the-autopsy-weekly-buys-losers",
  "title": "The Autopsy: Every Weekly Buys Pick That Went Wrong",
  "summary": "Our picks ledger is append-only, so the losers are permanent residents. Here is each one, what we believed at entry, what the market did instead, and the gate we built from the wreckage. Content marketing hides this stuff. We think it is the most useful page we publish.",
  "section": "Methodology",
  "published": "2026-08-27",
  "readMinutes": 8,
  "publisher": "moonstone",
  "findings": [
    {
      "value": "every pick",
      "measures": "still visible in the ledger",
      "basis": "append-only since week one"
    },
    {
      "value": "0",
      "measures": "entry prices ever edited",
      "basis": "suspension and disclosure, never deletion"
    },
    {
      "value": "3",
      "measures": "structural gates born from losses",
      "basis": "momentum deltas, printing verification, two-factor sealed"
    }
  ],
  "tables": [],
  "charts": [],
  "sections": [
    "Case one: Mew ex PSA 10, entered $3,475.50",
    "Cases two and three: the Fossil birds on poisoned medians",
    "Case four: the sealed pick that went nowhere"
  ],
  "method": [
    "All entries and marks from the public weekly_picks ledger and its weekly scorecard, August 2026. Entry prices are as published on entry day and are immutable; current marks come from verified sold medians; suspended marks are excluded from alpha with the reason stated on the row."
  ],
  "terms": "Figures are moonstone's own recorded measurements, dated as published. Quote them with the population stated beside them. The article at `url` is the human form of this file."
}