The README opened with "find the path of least resistance, key S/R zones, and
asymmetric R:R setups" — a description of a strategy we do not run. What we run
is a long-only cross-sectional momentum book with a trailing exit. The S/R
engine, the composite score, sentiment and fundamentals are screening and
display; none has a measured edge.
- Rewrites the intro/philosophy around the real strategy, and says plainly what
is NOT the edge.
- Adds a mermaid decision graph, universe -> qualified -> ranked -> opened ->
closed, with the real exit distribution on the terminal nodes: initial stop 45%,
trailing stop 31%, max hold 24%, S/R target 0%. Validated against the mermaid
parser, not eyeballed.
- Documents that the R:R and touch-probability are GATE INPUTS, not forecasts of
the trade — the single easiest way to misread this app.
- Adds win rate, best/worst R and the exit-reason split to the production
baseline table.
- New docs/research/README.md: every strategy tested, the result, the decision,
and why we stay with the current one. 12 rejected ideas (take-profit exits,
clear-air gate relaxation, EV gate, regime overlay, inverse-vol sizing, shorts,
standalone vol, FIP, ...), the confirmed tuning knobs, the open leads, and the
method rules we learned the hard way (nested lookbacks are not out-of-sample; a
rising win rate is a warning, not a win).
- Documents the research flags and the holdout harness, and warns that the
portfolio_monitor lookbacks are nested windows, NOT a holdout.
- Notes the snapshot must copy paper_% settings or it silently diverges from prod.
All baseline numbers re-verified against reports/backtest-20260711-prod-baseline.json
(506 tickers, 1,089 qualified, CAGR 50.4%, +413.8% vs SPY +95.7%, DD -21.4%,
Sharpe 2.04, 320 trades, 15.3d avg hold, and all five promotion contenders). No
corrections were needed — the numbers were right, the framing was not.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The baseline table and promotion evidence still carried pre-primary-target-floor
figures. Re-derived every number from the 2026-07-11 run, the first baseline
measured after the 20% probability floor pruned lottery targets (1,428 -> 1,089
qualified).
The promotion evidence table also claimed the promoted book beat legacy on
"CAGR, Sharpe, and drawdown". That no longer holds: legacy residual 80 + hold
now has the shallowest drawdown (-15.8% vs -21.4%). Production still wins on
Sharpe, so the promotion stands, but the text now says so honestly rather than
implying a clean sweep.
Also documents the primary-target reach-probability floor in the gate
description, which shipped in c7a198b/8f41143 but never reached the README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Record every tested-and-confirmed knob (ATR trail, regime overlay, lookback,
cutoff x book, sizing, FIP tie-breaker) so the sweep is not repeated on the
same snapshot, including the inverse-vol mis-attribution warning and the
universe-level fip_id lead. Prune the done items from the next-experiments
list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The portfolio monitor's Production row now replays the live qualification
flag and the Admin exit policy (mode/ATR multiplier/hold days) instead of a
frozen research-variant gate, so Admin tuning is reflected in the next run.
Single-source the 80/20 strategy_rank weights in momentum_service and pin
every dual-defined constant with a parity test. Behavior-preserving today:
the production sim reproduces the README baseline exactly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow-ups from review of the Track Record slim:
- BacktestPanel: drop the stale "tracking check" sentence from the "How this is
measured" explainer — that check moved to the maintenance disclosure last
commit, so it no longer describes anything in this block.
- MyTradesPanel: rename the two identically-labelled "Exit" columns to "Exit Px"
(exit price) and "Reason" (close_reason) so they're not confusable.
- README: add "Reading a local backtest report" under Local Backtest Snapshots —
a section->decision map for reports/backtest-*.json. The strategy-tuning tables
removed from the deployed page (sweep, gate_ablation, time_exit_sweep,
signal_eval, strategy_variants) now live only in the local report, so this
keeps "research lives local" from meaning the decision knowledge evaporates.
tsc -b && vite build pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Backtest report now includes research-only hold-to-horizon portfolio variants comparing raw vs residual 12-1 momentum, cutoff 80 vs 90, max 10 vs 15 positions, and SPY-200 risk scaling. A dynamic research recommendation panel flags residual momentum, cutoff 90, or regime scaling only when transparent promotion rules pass.
Adds signal_context_snapshots with migration 016 and captures one point-in-time context row per newly generated TradeSetup: setup fields, composite/dimensions, latest sentiment, latest fundamentals, and strategy_version=momentum_12_1_rr_time_v1. This is forward-only; no historical sentiment/fundamental backfill is attempted.
No live gate, paper-trade exit, or production ranking behavior changes.
Verification: 458 backend tests pass, ruff check app/ clean, frontend npm run build clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the validated-vs-not verdict table, the iron rule for strategy
changes, ranked next experiments, a maintainer guide (invariants, file
map, verification, roadmap), and corrects the deploy docs: deploys are
automated by Gitea Actions (push to main = deploy), service is
signalplatform.service at /opt/signalplatform.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add "How It Works": daily load (ordered pipeline steps), intraday flow,
other jobs, and the score -> activation gate -> top pick chain.
- Add "Key Use Cases" (find today's best long setup; track a paper trade).
- Fix stale facts: user-curated (not auto) watchlist, actual routes/pages,
scheduler description, wrong env defaults (RR 3.0->1.5, fundamentals
daily->weekly).
- Add missing surface: paper trading, activation gate, market regime, Telegram
alerts, backtest; API groups (paper-trades, market/regime, jobs); FRED +
Telegram env vars; note that pipeline timing is admin-cron, not env.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
