A 6-hour freshness window proves only that some scan ran recently, which a
manual mid-day scan satisfies. Scenario: a manual scan succeeds at 13:00;
the 15:30 near-close pipeline's scan step is disabled or fails; at 15:30
the 13:00 completion is still 'fresh', so the shadow step trades that
earlier batch despite no successful scan in the current pipeline.
_run_pipeline now records its start in a per-task contextvar, visible to
the steps it awaits. run_shadow_book reads it and requires the scan
completion marker to be at/after the pipeline start, so a scan that failed
or was disabled in this pass (marker left at a prior run, before the
pipeline began) cannot be substituted by an earlier manual scan. A direct
Admin trigger has no pipeline context and falls back to the freshness
window -- an explicit operator action, not an automated one.
Tests pin the reported case: a fresh manual scan predating the pipeline
start is refused; the pipeline's own post-start scan is accepted.
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Second review round on the shadow book; all three findings were real.
- Scan freshness is now proven, not assumed. Pipeline steps run and fail
independently, so a disabled or failed scan step still let the shadow
step run on the newest *stored* setups -- a prior session's picks at
stale prices. scan_all_tickers now records a run boundary
(last_scan_run_started_at / _completed_at) only on successful
completion; the shadow book refuses to trade unless COMPLETED is fresh
and selects only setups with detected_at >= the run start. Deduplication
to the latest row per ticker now happens BEFORE qualification, so a newer
unqualified row suppresses an older qualified one rather than the reverse.
- Shadow selection is hard long-only. setup_qualifies only enforces
long-only when min_momentum_percentile > 0, but 0 is a legal admin
setting, and the cash accounting assumes long positions -- so the
constraint is enforced in shadow selection regardless of gate config.
- The personal setup list excludes only the caller's own open positions.
get_trade_setups gained exclude_open_trade_user_id; the trades route
passes the authenticated user, while the Telegram broadcast stays global
since it has no single owner.
New tests cover stale/absent scan markers, prior-run exclusion, newer
unqualified suppressing older qualified, long-only under a disabled gate,
and both sides of the user-scoped exclusion.
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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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Earnings backfill sourced from the public DoltHub earnings repo at a
pinned commit rather than the FMP API: reproducible for anyone re-running
the study, and it burns no request quota. 12,414 events, 98.6% of symbols
with >=8 announcements, 99.2% paired actual/estimate, no keyed duplicates.
2a earnings-gap diagnostic: INFORMATIONAL, no filter shipped. The
pre-earnings cohort's right tail was better, so the registered
avoid-earnings condition failed. Note the raw 23/266 vs 115/574 incidence
gap is largely a duration confound -- severe losses stop out fast and have
less time to span an announcement -- so it is not evidence that holding
through earnings is safe.
2b SUE: FAIL against the pre-registered +0.03 bar (unconditional IC
+0.0151 over 56 reliable windows, momentum-conditional +0.0213). Signs
stable across eras, so this is a clean null rather than an ambiguous one,
consistent with post-earnings drift having decayed in large caps.
Closes the Tier-1 arc: Task 1 dead on deep evidence, Task 2 dead here,
Task 3 complete as diagnostic. No in-sample research thread remains open.
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Two independent bugs left the near-close scan running on the previous
session's close, silently degrading live execution to the stale_close
floor (~1.57 Sharpe) instead of the intended ~1.77 close-fill case.
1. OHLCV window never covered the current day. Daily bars are stamped at
session start (04:00Z under EDT), so an end of midnight-on-end_date
landed before that day's bar and dropped it. Widening the window alone
fails the whole request with 'subscription does not permit querying
recent SIP data', so end is also clamped to now-20min. Today's bar is
now returned, roughly 20 minutes behind live -- within the staleness
the near-close design already assumed.
Intraday runs therefore store a partial bar and ingestion progress
reaches today, which made incremental resume skip the after-close
refresh entirely. collect_ohlcv_final() re-pulls the last sessions so
the consolidated bar overwrites the partial one before outcome eval.
2. APScheduler's from_crontab() passes day-of-week to its own field where
0=Monday, so '1-5' meant Tue-Sat: every Monday was skipped and the
scanner ran Saturdays on stale data. Weekday schedules now use names.
Stored settings already corrected via Admin; this fixes the defaults.
Tests cover both: today's bar inside the window, the delayed-data clamp,
historical windows untruncated, and a week of fire times asserting Monday
is present and weekends are not.
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Drop intermediate history-depth reports, sector-residual runners/map/code hooks
(evidence stays in final reports + docs), and slim MacBook helper to ssl/earnings/
prod-book-matrix only. SSL bootstrap and archived research conclusions retained.
Four-arm results: 505 stays positive (softer on deep history); liquid breadth
destroys book under current knobs. Stop tracking 1.3GB pkl cache under reports/.cache.
Pre-register A-D (4y/2016 x 505/505+liquid) with unchanged production knobs.
Runner caches full GTL candidates then re-ranks per arm; MacBook entry via
run_tier1_macbook.sh --prod-book-matrix.
Deep masked retest failed the iron IC bar (0.027 < 0.03). Log as rejected #13 in
research README; close sector-residual and history-depth docs. Production market
residual unchanged.
SANITY-FAIL report showed megacaps/ETFs already at empirical 2016-01-04 floor
(2649 bars) after deepen; check wrongly required ~2013. Pass when megacaps leave
the old 2021 two-tier floor and match SPY; XLC listing exception retained.
Terminal follow-up for Task 1: detect/refetch shallow two-tier symbols and sector
ETFs at 5000d, regenerate manifest, run ONE liquid-1500 harness with era split, grade
mom_12_1_sector_resid mechanically. Bundled as run_tier1_macbook.sh --sector-resid-deep.
Authoritative report history-depth-20260719-103315: race guard pass on deep
research.sqlite. Sector residual still short-window only (no pre-2021); fip sign
flips on broad deep sample; no production retune.
Extract app/ssl_bootstrap.py (shared with FastAPI main), wire it into research
scripts, and teach run_tier1_macbook.sh to locate combined-ca-bundle.pem, certifi,
optional USE_CORP_PROXY, plus --ssl-check diagnostics.
Tier-1 alpha research (local only, no production deploy):
Sector residual momentum: two-factor SPY+sector residual and sector demean signals, IC harness + A/B. Sector resid clears pre-registered bars narrowly (PROMOTE for human wire design only). Sector demean fails t vs market resid.
Earnings: earnings_events backfill (FMP bulk paid; FMP/AV per-symbol), 2a gap diagnostic report-only, 2b SUE IC (PARK; incomplete 48/506 coverage).
History-depth: pre-registered doc + runner for MacBook deep rebuild/harness.
Do not ship production residual or filters from this branch.
Brings env-gated liquid-breadth harness hooks, research tooling, compact
evidence, and the completion-manifest race guard. No production behavior
change when liquid env vars are unset. Nothing to deploy.
Log the 21:14 orphan as a snapshot-build race, rewrite the context table to
authoritative ICs only, and soften the vol-tilt warning. Add extender completion
manifest + breadth refuse guard; strip intermediate/orphaned reports; park the
thread (no book sim, no deploy).
Add lagged/tier/prod-subset/mom-conditional checks on research.sqlite.
Log: unconditional sign is a winner/bleeder tug-of-war; mom-conditional
fip stays negative and reliable; warn on high-vol tilt if universe broadens.
Add research-only snapshot extender, PIT dollar-volume mask for signal IC,
rank-only harness path, fingerprint+breadth runner, and docs. Fingerprint
reproduced IC -0.045 / t -2.91 on prod.sqlite. No production gate/schedule changes.
Display-only Da/Gurun/Warachka information discreteness on the ticker
indicator panel. Shared compute with the backtest harness; not wired into
gate or rank.
Regime is computed at 02:00 ET; without a morning alert pass, quadrant
changes waited until 15:30. Dispatcher is change-driven so quiet days stay
quiet. Drop unused alerts_frequency config.
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.
Record monotone fill-timing gradient, live [1.57,1.77] bracket, recover-flag
interpretation, gap-cap as third tail-trim, and pre-scheduler ops checklist.
Document Phase A (max-hold/vol/corr closed; next-open as decision baseline).
Add stale_close and next_open gap-cap fill modes plus a small matrix to test
whether near-close scheduling recovers overnight momentum drift.
Ship shared Sharpe SE/PSR diagnostics, next-open fill and equity-curve vol targeting in the portfolio simulator, re-derived fip_id, and a checkpointed offline matrix runner for Mac-side validation sweeps.
Honor custom S/R tolerance as a transient detect, refresh levels after OHLCV
mutations without failing committed price writes, report per-ticker S/R
rebuild failures from admin cleanup, and warn in the admin UI when refresh is partial.
Ship greenfield min_rr=2.0 and conf=0, read-only Structural S/R, indicator
cache invalidation, and UI/gate language that treats GTL as screening not exit.
Align strategy_rank missing-vol fallback live vs backtest, single-source
PRIMARY_TARGET_MIN_RR, expand prod parity tests, and drop dead FE clients.
Finnhub profile2 reports marketCapitalization in millions; storing it
as dollars made mega-caps like SPCX show as micro (e.g. 1.8M). Normalize
on ingest, add unit tests, and include a one-shot SQL backfill script.
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