Third exit model alongside target-vs-stop and the fixed take-profit. The TP sweep
showed the edge lives in the fat tail (avg R keeps rising as you let winners run),
but a fixed wide target is win-rate-brutal and gives everything back on a reversal.
A trailing stop harvests the tail while protecting gains.
Per setup the replay computes the realized R for several trail widths (3/5/7/10/
15/20%) in a single conservative pass — stop ratchets up via max(initial_stop,
peak*(1-trail)), exit on the pullback or at the horizon close, R vs the initial
risk. Aggregated into a trailing sweep (win rate = share closed in profit, avg R,
total R) over the qualified set and shown as a new table in the Backtest panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Avg R was still rising at the previous top level (+15%), so the optimum was off
the table. Extend TP_LEVELS to 20/25/30% to reveal where letting winners run
stops paying (it plateaus toward "just hold to the horizon close").
Also clarify in the panel that the take-profit model deliberately does NOT use
the setup's S/R target — it's a standalone fixed-% exit; exiting at the target is
the target-vs-stop model above. The two are complementary ends, not in conflict.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The target-vs-stop model counts a near-miss of a far S/R target as a full loss
and ignores the partial gains you actually bank — so it measures a different
strategy than "scalp the early pop, take +8%". Add a realistic take-profit exit
model next to it (original untouched).
Per setup the replay now also records risk%, whether the stop was hit, the
favourable excursion reachable before the stop (MFE), and the horizon-close move.
From those a fixed-take-profit sweep (4/6/8/10/12/15%) is scored in R: bank +X%
if reached before the stop, else -1R, else the horizon close. Hit rate = how
often +X% was banked (the MFE CDF), so you can pick the EV-optimal TP without
top-ticking fantasy. Shown as a new table in the Backtest panel; the IC,
calibration and momentum sweep are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The outcome section measures the same thing as the backtest with the same code
and data — its only unique value is catching when the live system drifts from
the backtest (a bug, config/data drift, or look-ahead). So reframe it as exactly
that: a one-line "Live X R vs Backtest Y R · n matured · tracking ✓ / drift ⚠"
indicator (like-for-like with the qualified toggle), with the stat cards and
By-Action/By-Confidence tables moved into a collapsed "Outcome details"
disclosure. Drop the always-empty By-Direction table.
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The outcome stats were dominated by quick stop-outs: near stops resolve as losses
within days while far targets take weeks, so a young sample (mostly pending,
0 expired) skewed sharply negative (e.g. 13.8% hit / -0.46R vs the backtest's
35.8% / +0.18R) — a maturation artifact, not a real result.
get_performance_stats now counts only setups whose full ~30-day window has
elapsed (_MATURITY_DAYS), so winners had as long as losers (unbiased, and
comparable to the backtest). A new `maturing` count reports the younger setups
held back. The Track Record UI relabels "Evaluated" -> "Matured", shows the
maturing count, and explains the window in the empty state + methodology note.
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).
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The momentum-sweep table read row.min_momentum_percentile.toFixed(), but a report
cached before the EV->momentum change only has min_expected_value rows. undefined
.toFixed() threw during render and — with no error boundary — blanked the whole
Track Record tab. Guard the sweep block on the new field so a stale report just
hides the sweep; re-running the backtest repopulates it.
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The 5-year backtest confirmed the EV gate adds negative value (high threshold =
worst expectancy) and that 12-1 month momentum is the one price signal with a
plausible, right-signed cross-sectional IC (~0.05). So "qualified" now means:
clears the R:R + confidence floors AND the ticker ranks in the top
`min_momentum_percentile` of the universe by 12-1 momentum that week.
- qualification.py: drop expected_value_r / the EV gate; add a momentum-percentile
gate (duck-typed `momentum_percentile`, only enforced when attached + threshold
set, else defers to floors). Mirrored in frontend qualification.ts.
- activation config/schema: min_expected_value -> min_momentum_percentile
(default 80 = top quintile). ActivationSettings, DashboardPage (ranks/【shows】
momentum instead of EV), and the BacktestPanel sweep follow.
- backtest: rank each ISO week's universe by 12-1 momentum, assign a percentile,
and qualify the top slice; the sweep now sweeps the percentile cutoff.
Also offload the backtest's per-ticker compute to a worker thread so the heavy
~5y run no longer blocks the API event loop (the "backend offline" flicker).
Production setups don't carry momentum_percentile yet — wiring the scanner to
attach it (a universe momentum-rank step) is the next step; until then the live
gate defers to floors while the backtest measures the momentum selection. 330
backend tests pass; frontend build clean.
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Two changes so the cross-sectional signal results can actually be trusted.
(a) History depth — the binding constraint. Ingestion defaulted to 365 days, so
long-lookback factors (12-month momentum, 52-week high) were only computable on a
handful of weeks at the tail, and every IC reflected a single market regime.
- New `settings.ohlcv_history_days` (default 1825 ≈ 5y); new tickers backfill this
far instead of 1 year.
- New manual "data_backfill" job (Admin → Jobs) re-fetches the full window for
every ticker, ignoring incremental resume — run once to deepen existing
1-year histories. Idempotent (upsert); resumes after rate limits.
(b) Factor-IC honesty. The IC was averaged over weekly rebalances whose 30-day
forward windows overlap, inflating the t-stat ~sqrt(6)x.
- IC now measured on NON-OVERLAPPING windows (weeks thinned to ~HORIZON apart).
- Each signal carries a `reliable` flag (>= 12 independent windows); BacktestPanel
greys out and de-stars thin signals so a lucky 9-week IC of 0.3 can't masquerade
as an edge.
332 backend tests pass; frontend build clean. No migration (config + job + an
added JSON field on the cached backtest report).
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The per-setup hit-rate report can't tell whether a signal predicts returns —
only how a target/stop structure built on one performs. This adds a
cross-sectional factor-IC pass: each week the universe is ranked by a price-only
signal and graded by its rank correlation (Spearman IC) and top-minus-bottom-
quintile spread against the forward 30-day return.
Candidate signals (point-in-time from price; sentiment/fundamentals have no
history in the replay): 12-1/6-1/3-1 month momentum, 1-month reversal,
price-vs-200d SMA, proximity to the 52-week high (George/Hwang), and 126-day
realized volatility (low-vol anomaly).
Reuses the existing per-ticker replay loop (no new data, no second DB pass);
results land in the cached backtest_report as `signal_eval` and render as a
"Signal edge" table in BacktestPanel beside the calibration curve.
330 backend tests pass (10 new in test_signal_eval); frontend build clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Diagnosing "no qualified signals for 5 days": setups were generated but none
qualified. The gate required BOTH a high min_rr (2.0) AND a high
min_target_probability (60), which became contradictory after the Jun-15
probability recalibration — probability already embeds R:R via the 1/(rr+1) ruin
term, so high-R:R targets are inherently low-probability and nothing cleared both.
Gate is now expected value (R): p*rr - (1-p) from the primary target's
probability. R:R and confidence stay as floors; high-conviction / exclude-conflicts
/ min-target-probability become optional tighteners (default off). Defaults:
min_expected_value=0.15, min_rr=1.2, min_confidence=55. EV is only enforced when
computable. Migration 009 clears stored activation_* rows so the new defaults
apply. Backtest sweeps min_expected_value instead of target probability.
Scheduling: pipelines are now cron-configurable in Admin -> Jobs. daily_pipeline
(full, default 0 7 * * *) plus a new light intraday_pipeline (OHLCV + outcome eval,
default hourly US session) that keeps prices/live-R:R current without setup churn.
Fundamentals on its own early weekly cron. Timezone configurable (default
Europe/Berlin). Moving interval->CronTrigger also fixes the restart-deferral bug
where an interval job's countdown resets on every process restart.
319 backend unit tests pass; frontend tsc clean.
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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>
Re-applies the activation gate at several min_target_probability thresholds
(60→30, other conditions fixed) over the already-replayed candidates, so the
trade-off between how many setups qualify and their expectancy is visible in one
table — the cheap "optimize" half of Phase 2. Candidates now carry meets_core +
best_prob so the sweep needs no re-replay. New sweep table in BacktestPanel with
the current threshold starred.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New BacktestPanel: shows qualified hit-rate/expectancy vs the all-setups baseline,
a by-direction breakdown, and the probability calibration table (predicted vs
realized, over-confident buckets flagged amber). Includes a "Run backtest" button
that triggers the job and a plain explanation of the method and its limits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Track Record: new "Reset" action (POST /admin/track-record/reset) deletes all
trade setups so stats start fresh after material scoring/setup changes — live
setups regenerate on the next scan. Guarded by a confirm dialog.
Recommendation config: remove distance_penalty_factor, which was exposed in the
admin UI but consumed nowhere (the touch-probability model superseded it). A
knob that silently does nothing is worse than no knob. Remaining defaults are
left as-is — they're reasonable, and the honest way to tune them is backtesting
against accumulated outcomes, not invented "researched" numbers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- JWT now carries a username claim; sidebar shows "Signed in as <name>"
instead of the bare user id (sub). Re-login required for the new claim.
- Signals: Min R:R / Min Confidence inputs reflect the effective filter —
auto-filled from the activation gate when "Qualified only" is on, reset
to 0 when off (no more misleading 0 while the gate is active).
- Signals layout: Run Scanner moved to its own action row (it's a job
trigger, not a filter); qualified toggle grouped with the refinement
filters under one Filters panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Providers (admin-switchable, no redeploy):
- DeepSeek and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (OpenRouter, Together,
Groq, local Ollama) via a generic Chat Completions adapter + base_url
- xAI Grok with Live Search (search_parameters web+X, citations) —
grounded tier alongside OpenAI and Gemini
- DeepSeek / generic compatible endpoints are ungrounded (no web
search); UI shows an amber warning and labels each provider's grounding
- Optional env fallbacks DEEPSEEK_API_KEY / XAI_API_KEY
UI: replace native <select> (unstyleable white popup on Windows) with a
custom dark Dropdown component everywhere — sentiment provider, scanner
filters, market sort, indicators, admin universe, user role.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make "qualified" mean an edge candidate, not just R:R + confidence.
The gate now also requires (all admin-configurable, defaults on):
- high conviction: recommended_action LONG_HIGH / SHORT_HIGH only
- clean read: risk_level Low (no contradicting signals)
- probable primary target: best target probability >= min (default 60)
- Shared predicate: app/services/qualification.py +
frontend/src/lib/qualification.ts (mirrored)
- Activation config extended (min_target_probability,
require_high_conviction, exclude_conflicts) with bool-aware
get/update + validation
- /trades/performance switched to ?qualified_only=true, applying
the full gate server-side; confidence breakdown stays unfiltered
- Dashboard "Qualified", Signals "Qualified only" toggle, and
Track Record all use the one gate; Admin gains the new controls
Sentiment provider runtime config (prior change) included.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Admin-configurable thresholds (min R:R, default 2.0; min confidence,
default 70%) defining what counts as an actionable signal:
- Admin Settings: new Activation Thresholds panel
(GET/PUT /admin/settings/activation)
- GET /trades/activation exposes values to all users with access
- Signals/Setups: filters initialize from activation values
- Track Record: "Qualified signals only" toggle (default on) via
min_rr/min_confidence params on /trades/performance; the
confidence breakdown always covers the full population so the
thresholds can be validated against outcomes
- Dashboard: "Qualified" metric and qualified-first Top Setups
- Outcome evaluator unchanged: every setup is still evaluated
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
