Pre-registers the real-money test that starts 2026-09-24, the first session
without commission drag. PASS needs at least 80 round trips with a positive
mean R and positive P&L. FAIL is any session the equity floor halts. Changing
any strategy setting in live_test_freeze.json restarts the count, and the
scorecard reports that drift.
The settings were frozen, not tuned, because a study of 239 real fills
re-simulated under the current exit found nothing worth changing:
- Capping how far above the trigger an entry may fill lost R at every cap
from 0.25% to 10%, with either skip or resting-limit handling. Fills more
than 5% above the trigger were the best bucket (+0.66R).
- No break-time factor (spread, price, VWAP distance, stop width, L1
bid/ask size, premarket range) kept its sign across both date halves and
both accounts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
150 lines
6.3 KiB
Python
150 lines
6.3 KiB
Python
"""Live-test scorecard: is the frozen strategy making money on the real account?
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The test was pre-registered on 2026-09-25, after the commission leak was closed
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(first clean session 2026-09-24):
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PASS after >= 80 round trips since the freeze, mean R > 0 AND realized P&L > 0.
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FAIL the equity-floor kill switch halts a session.
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Otherwise the test is still running. Any change to a strategy setting in
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research/live_test_freeze.json restarts the count, so this report flags drift.
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Why 80: per-trade R ranges roughly -1 to +10 with a stdev of ~1.4, so under ~80
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trades a positive mean cannot be told apart from zero. Why no filters were
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changed at the freeze: the 2026-09-25 study (239 real fills, re-simulated under
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the current exit) found that capping the entry chase lost R at every cap, and
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that no break-time factor, including the L1/L2 book, held its sign across both
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halves of the sample.
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Run against the LIVE (tradier) database:
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DATABASE_URL=<tradier dsn> PG_SKIP_SCHEMA=1 python -m research.live_scorecard
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"""
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from __future__ import annotations
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import argparse
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import json
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import random
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from pathlib import Path
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from research.multi_schema import open_research_db
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FREEZE_FILE = Path(__file__).with_name("live_test_freeze.json")
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TARGET_TRADES = 80
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# safety knobs: changing these does not change the strategy under test
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SAFETY_KEYS = {"TRADING_EQUITY_FLOOR", "TRADING_DEFAULT_EQUITY"}
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def load_freeze(path: Path = FREEZE_FILE) -> dict:
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return json.loads(path.read_text())
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def config_drift(frozen: dict, current: dict) -> dict:
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"""{key: (frozen, current)} for strategy settings that differ from the freeze."""
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keys = set(frozen) | {k for k in current if k.startswith(("TRADING_", "TRIGGER_"))}
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return {k: (frozen.get(k), current.get(k)) for k in sorted(keys - SAFETY_KEYS)
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if frozen.get(k) != current.get(k)}
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def bootstrap_mean_ci(xs: list[float], n: int = 4000, seed: int = 7) -> tuple[float, float]:
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if not xs:
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return (float("nan"), float("nan"))
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rng = random.Random(seed)
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means = sorted(sum(rng.choices(xs, k=len(xs))) / len(xs) for _ in range(n))
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return means[int(0.05 * n)], means[int(0.95 * n) - 1]
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def verdict(r_values: list[float], pnl: float, floor_halts: int,
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target: int = TARGET_TRADES) -> str:
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if floor_halts:
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return "FAIL: the equity floor halted trading"
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if len(r_values) < target:
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return f"RUNNING: {len(r_values)}/{target} trades"
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mean_r = sum(r_values) / len(r_values)
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if mean_r > 0 and pnl > 0:
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return "PASS: positive per-trade R and positive P&L"
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return "FAIL: not profitable after the full sample"
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def load_trades(con, since: str) -> list[dict]:
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"""Closed round trips since ``since`` with R measured against the stop the
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order was submitted with (position_closed carries the final, trailed stop)."""
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closes = con.execute(
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"SELECT timestamp, payload_json FROM events WHERE event_type='position_closed' "
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"AND timestamp >= ? ORDER BY timestamp", [since]).fetchall()
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out = []
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for ts, payload in closes:
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p = json.loads(payload or "{}")
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sym = p.get("symbol")
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row = con.execute(
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"SELECT payload_json FROM events WHERE event_type='order_approval_requested' "
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"AND payload_json LIKE ? AND timestamp::date = ?::date AND timestamp < ? "
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"ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 1", [f'%"symbol": "{sym}"%', ts, ts]).fetchone()
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stop0 = None
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if row:
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stop0 = (json.loads(row[0]).get("execution_request") or {}).get("stop_loss_price")
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entry, exit_p = p.get("entry_price"), p.get("exit_price")
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r = None
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if stop0 and entry and exit_p is not None and float(entry) > float(stop0):
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r = (float(exit_p) - float(entry)) / (float(entry) - float(stop0))
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out.append({"ts": ts, "symbol": sym, "pnl": float(p.get("realized_pnl") or 0.0),
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"r": r, "reason": p.get("exit_reason")})
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return out
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def equity_path(con, since: str) -> tuple[float | None, float | None]:
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rows = con.execute(
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"SELECT payload_json FROM events WHERE event_type='account_summary_updated' "
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"AND timestamp >= ? ORDER BY timestamp", [since]).fetchall()
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eq = [json.loads(r[0]).get("total_equity") for r in rows]
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eq = [float(e) for e in eq if e]
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return (eq[0], eq[-1]) if eq else (None, None)
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def floor_halts(con, since: str) -> int:
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"""Sessions the kill switch halted during market hours (the midnight re-check
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that fires while equity is still below the floor is not a new halt)."""
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rows = con.execute(
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"SELECT timestamp, message FROM events WHERE event_type='risk_rule_triggered' "
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"AND timestamp >= ? AND message LIKE 'EQUITY FLOOR%'", [since]).fetchall()
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return len({ts.date() for ts, _ in rows if 9 <= ts.hour < 16})
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def main() -> None:
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ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="live-test scorecard since the freeze")
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ap.add_argument("--since", help="override the freeze date (YYYY-MM-DD)")
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args = ap.parse_args()
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freeze = load_freeze()
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since = args.since or freeze["frozen_on"]
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con = open_research_db("market")
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trades = load_trades(con, since)
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rs = [t["r"] for t in trades if t["r"] is not None]
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pnl = sum(t["pnl"] for t in trades)
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halts = floor_halts(con, since)
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eq0, eq1 = equity_path(con, since)
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current = dict(con.execute("SELECT key, value FROM config_overrides").fetchall())
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drift = config_drift(freeze["settings"], current)
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print(f"Live test since {since} ({len(trades)} round trips)\n")
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for t in trades:
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r = f"{t['r']:+.2f}R" if t["r"] is not None else " n/a"
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print(f" {str(t['ts'])[:16]} {t['symbol']:6s} {r} ${t['pnl']:+8.2f} {t['reason']}")
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if rs:
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lo, hi = bootstrap_mean_ci(rs)
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wins = sum(1 for r in rs if r > 0)
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print(f"\nmean R {sum(rs) / len(rs):+.3f} (90% CI {lo:+.3f} .. {hi:+.3f})"
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f" win rate {wins}/{len(rs)}")
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print(f"realized P&L ${pnl:+.2f}")
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if eq0 is not None:
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print(f"equity ${eq0:.2f} -> ${eq1:.2f} (difference from realized P&L = fees + deposits/refunds)")
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print(f"floor halts: {halts}")
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if drift:
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print("\nSETTINGS CHANGED SINCE THE FREEZE (the count restarts from the change):")
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for k, (a, b) in drift.items():
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print(f" {k}: {a!r} -> {b!r}")
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print(f"\n{verdict(rs, pnl, halts)}")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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main()
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