Review of the shadow book found seven ways the two books could leak into
each other; all are fixed here. The most serious silently invalidated the
comparison the shadow book exists to make.
- Shadow holdings no longer suppress the manual candidate list. The
open-trade exclusion filtered on any book, so shadow taking the
top-ranked names removed exactly those from the user's list and alerts,
confining the discretionary book to leftovers. Scoped to the manual
book. Closed-trade alerts and paper-book equity were leaking the same
way and are likewise scoped.
- Shadow sizing now matches _simulate_portfolio: min(1% risk, 20% notional
cap, available cash) from marked equity, plus the sub- dust guard.
Previously risk-only from realized equity, so a tight stop produced a
multiples-of-equity leveraged position the strategy would never take.
- Shadow only trades setups from the scan that just ran (<6h old) with one
setup per ticker. A failed or disabled scan step could otherwise open
positions from a prior session at stale prices.
- Gate-reset transitions are observed for both books, so a shadow stop-out
completes fail -> requalify instead of staying locked forever.
- Manual list/close endpoints default to the manual book and reject
hand-closing shadow trades; the performance endpoint is scoped to the
caller so 'your picks' is not every user's book.
- run_shadow_book is registered as a paused job so Admin can trigger it.
Also anchors three pre-existing paper-trade tests (and the new alpaca
window test) on the UTC date. They build fixtures from the local date but
the service stamps opened_at in UTC, so they failed only between 00:00 and
02:00 in a UTC+hh timezone -- latent on ba2df8b, exposed by the clock.
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The manual paper book only contains trades taken by hand, inside a 20
minute window, on days someone was available. The backtest that validated
this strategy auto-takes the top-ranked qualified setups up to capacity
every session. The forward record was therefore measuring strategy plus
discretion plus availability -- and degrading silently on busy days.
The shadow book closes that gap: it mirrors the backtest's selection rule
(top strategy_rank qualified, up to capacity, 1% fixed-fractional risk)
and shares the manual book's exit policy, so the only difference between
the two books is which setups get taken. Selection ordering reuses the
strategy_rank the scanner already stores rather than recomputing it, so
the two cannot drift apart. It runs as a near-close pipeline step right
after the scan, marking entries at the same prices a human would see.
Gate-reset re-entry state is now scoped per book -- the books diverge as
soon as their entries differ, and each must see only its own stops.
Performance view rewritten around the comparison:
- three series (shadow, manual, SPY) from a new endpoint
- SPY changes from a per-trade cost-basis counterfactual to plain
buy-and-hold %, since one line has to serve two books
- headline stats are R-multiples, not currency: the books size
differently, so only R compares across them
- configurable start date, because the strategy has been revised
repeatedly and pre-cutover trades ran under rules that no longer
exist
Migration 024 also repairs the numeric weekday crons written by 023,
rewriting only rows still holding the broken form so hand-corrected
settings survive. Its literals are inlined because bound parameters
render as NULL under 'alembic upgrade --sql'.
The shadow book is opt-in and writes nothing until enabled. Verify its
first selections match a backtest of that day's cross-section before
trusting any point on the curve.
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Move the only qualifying R:R scan to 15:30 ET with chained Telegram alerts,
put outcome eval after a final-bar OHLCV fetch, enforce NY trading-day
requalify semantics, stamp paper trades fill_mode=near_close, and migrate
stored schedule_* keys to America/New_York.
Layout regrouped by relationship, not size: the setup-in-focus card
and the radar sit side by side (they are one decision surface), the
four account ribbons move directly above the open positions they
describe, and a new performance chart closes the page.
- Radar rows are selectable: clicking one swaps the focus card to that
setup - including below-gate rows, whose card shows a muted
"rank N / below gate" badge and the disqualify reason in the footer,
with a "back to top pick" reset. The row currently in focus is
highlighted; ticker links still deep-link without selecting.
- Performance chart (the mockup's missing piece): new
GET /paper-trades/equity-curve computes, per benchmark trading day
since the first paper trade, the book's cumulative P&L (realized +
mark-to-market from stored OHLCV) vs the same cost basis riding SPY
over each trade's window (benchmark_prices). Pure curve math in
paper_trade_service with unit tests; hidden until there are 2+
points of data. Frontend renders both lines with crosshair readout,
zero baseline, and direct end labels.
Backend unit suite: 501 passed.
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Both _atr_trailing_close (scheduled) and _atr_trailing_level (dashboard
read path) recomputed ATR from scratch on every post-entry bar via
compute_atr(rows[:idx+1]) — O(n*k) per trade. Replace with a single O(n)
Wilder pass, _atr_series_from_rows, that stores round(running, 4) at each
index. compute_atr keeps its running ATR unrounded through the recurrence
and rounds only at return, so this reproduces its per-prefix value exactly
(no behavior change; live-vs-backtest atr_trail3 parity still byte-identical).
Remove the now-unused _atr_from_rows and its compute_atr import. Add a
per-index parity test against compute_atr; existing ATR tests now mock
_atr_series_from_rows (same effect as the old fixed-ATR mock).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Production strategy change based on the July 2026 backtest: paper trades now default to a 30-trading-day hold with the initial stop (classic momentum hold-and-rerank), while target and trailing exits remain available in Admin. The exit policy API/UI now carries hold_days and close_reason can be 'time'.
The activation confidence floor default is now 0/off because the gate ablation showed it added no per-trade edge while filtering out usable setups. Migration 015 clears stored activation_min_confidence and paper_exit_mode so the new defaults take effect; this intentionally resets Track Record comparability from this deploy.
Verification: 451 backend tests pass, ruff check app/ clean, frontend npm run build clean.
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Applies the backtest-validated trailing stop to live paper trading, and surfaces
it transparently.
Exit (A):
- New paper-trade exit policy (paper_exit_mode=trailing, paper_trailing_pct=12),
tunable in Admin → Paper-Trade Exit. resolve_open_trades runs a trailing stop
(initial stop as floor, ratchets up from the peak; target ignored — the
validated rule) and records close_reason (trailing|stop|target|manual; +migration
013).
- list_trades enriches open trades with the live trailing-stop level + distance %.
Open Trades panel shows the active tactic and a Trail Stop column.
Alerts (B):
- Daily digest now lists open trades with unrealized gain, trailing stop, and how
far away it is.
- New "trade closed" alert: one summary per auto-close (trailing/target/stop, not
manual) — direction, reason, days held, P&L abs+%/R — covering wins AND
stop-loss losses. Deduped by trade id; toggle in Admin alerts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three usability fixes:
1. Global ticker search in the sidebar (TickerSearch) — typeahead over the
tracked universe that opens a ticker's detail page without adding it to the
watchlist. Also wired into the mobile nav.
2. Watchlist table shows the ticker's 12-1 momentum percentile (the top-pick
selector) instead of the noisy full S/R-level list. Enriched from the setup
already loaded in watchlist_service._enrich_entry — no extra query.
3. Alpha vs the S&P 500 on paper trades (open + closed). New benchmark_prices
table + benchmark_service store SPY daily closes (a standalone series, not a
Ticker, so it never enters the scanner / momentum ranking / rankings) via a
new daily-pipeline step. paper_trade_service computes per-trade
benchmark_return / alpha_pct / alpha_usd over each holding period; the open-
trades table, dashboard, and closed-trades panel surface per-trade and total
alpha. The list read path never makes a provider call.
Deploy: alembic upgrade head, then run the benchmark/daily job once to populate
SPY closes (alpha shows "—" until then).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
resolve_open_trades walks the daily bars after each open trade and closes it at
the target (target hit) or stop (stop/ambiguous), leaving undecided trades open.
Runs nightly inside the outcome evaluator (so it's coordinated with fresh OHLCV)
and on its manual trigger. New "My Trades" section at the top of Signals → Track
Record shows realized hit-rate, expectancy (avg R), total R, total P&L, and a
closed-trades table — your actual results, separate from the theoretical signal
record below it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New paper_trades table (migration 007) + service/router. "Mark as taken" on each
setup card (shares prefilled from position sizing, entry from current price, both
editable) records a simulated trade. Overview gains an Open Trades table that
marks each position to the latest close — P&L in $, %, and R-multiples — with a
total unrealized P&L footer and a Sell button to close at the current price.
Closed trades are retained for future realized-P&L reporting.
Deploy: alembic upgrade (new paper_trades table).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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