The watcher evaluates candidates[:max_symbols] each tick. The live provider puts
dashboard/scan-injected symbols first (they never expire) and ranks the rest by
bar count, so on 2026-10-08 fifteen injected intraday movers plus liquid names
filled all 25 slots and every in-population gapper stopped being scored at 09:43
while 50 already-rejected names were re-rejected every 8 s. Entries were not
affected (the trigger book arms independently and injects its armed names), but
the state board and the judge's reasoning trail went stale for the session.
Names already in out_of_population now go to the back of the list and rotate, so
they are still re-checked when budget remains (a squeeze can be re-admitted) but
can never crowd out a name that can still trade.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LXxioW7HA18AY1gqnzA2HN
