The Early Edition — Friday, November 13, 2026

The morning brief from the ThoroughWiz labs: yesterday's settled record, today's filed picks, the weather, the Desk, and the day's publishing schedule.

This page is AI-produced. Picks are UNPROVEN — no edge is claimed. Lottery picks are entertainment only.

Highlight

Yesterday's top-four watch put the winner in its four in 29 of 34 settled races (85.3%).

Yesterday's Racing — Thursday, November 12, 2026 (interim)

Single pick (official pick, one $2 win bet per race): 34 settled, 15 winners, $68 bet → $69.50 returned, ROI +2.2%. Interim state: 34 of 35 races settled.

Verticals (paper) — exacta: 34 races played, 98 combos, 10 hits, $196.00 staked → $147.96 returned, ROI -24.5%.

Verticals (paper) — superfecta_boxed: 25 races played, 150 combos, 0 hits, $300.00 staked → $0.00 returned, ROI -100.0%.

Top-four watch: 34 races played, 29 hits (85.3%), $264.00 staked → $186.42 returned, ROI -29.4%.

Full settled sheet: the Results pages on thoroughwiz.com.

Numbers Lab — Lottery

Last settled draws (2026-11-12): Numbers midday 256, evening 556. Win 4 midday 1568, evening 2479.

Today's filed numbers: Numbers midday 363, evening 490. Win 4 midday 3427, evening 0497.

Entertainment only. No method improves the odds of these games, and no edge is claimed. Games like these return about 50 cents per $1 over time.

Today's Sports — As Filed

All sports picks on this page are UNPROVEN. No edge is claimed.

NFL Week 11 — 14 picks filed 2026-11-12 (UNPROVEN):

Other sports — slate 2026-11-14, filed 2026-11-13 07:46 ET (UNPROVEN):

NBA: no picks filed for this slate.

NCAAF: 17 picks.

NCAAB: no picks filed for this slate.

Weather Outlook

National forecast card: Small Craft Advisory is today's most widespread alert — 199 active on the national wire (326 alerts of all kinds nationwide). Warmest Miami, FL 81°; coldest Horseheads, NY 38°.

Horseheads, New York: the local outlook — now, today and the next three days — loads live on the Weather Almanac from the same National Weather Service and blend sources this page's forecast card uses. Read the current figures there; this brief prints no forecast figure it did not read from a lab file.

Trading Desk — Paper Only

Paper only. Paper equity $1,000.00 on $1,000.00 paper capital. Paper trades: 0. Kill switch: ARMED. Status as of 2026-11-13 07:30 ET.

Open positions: none. The Desk holds no paper position.

Today's expected fills: none filed in the journal. The next sector-rotation rebalance reads on Monday, November 16, 2026, per the journal.

Approved paper strategies: 20-day Donchian breakout, volume-confirmed; Oversold snap-back (stocks); Sector rotation, capped variant (top-4 sectors at $250 per leg).

What Publishes Today

The Early Edition is rebuilt in place each morning at thoroughwiz.com/edition/. This page is AI-produced. Picks are UNPROVEN — no edge is claimed. Lottery picks are entertainment only.