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momentum devandClaude Fable 5 3fdf268227 fix: trigger fires require a fresh cross — stale breaks after a blind window are chases
SNXX 2026-07-21: 18s after a mid-morning restart the fast path bought a
15-minute-old break +1.6% above the trigger — fires() only checked
price >= trigger, so any blind window (boot, halt, feed outage) fired
instantly on already-extended moves. A trigger now fires only if the live
price was seen BELOW the trigger since arming (a real cross), with a
small at-the-break tolerance (TRIGGER_FRESH_CROSS_TOL, default 1.5%)
so a fast break between ticks still fires; beyond it the name must pull
back below the level and re-cross. Gap-through runners stay covered by
the slow marketable path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-21 08:50:41 -05:00

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"""Armed opening-range-breakout triggers — the fast, top-N watchlist.
The watcher path reacts only after a 1-minute candle *closes* above the
breakout level and then walks the ingest->watch->execute cadence (up to a
couple of minutes), and it rests a limit *at* the trigger that a fast runner
never comes back to fill. Both make us late and make us miss the move.
This book is the fix. It keeps the handful of most-promising gappers "armed":
the trigger (opening-range high) and stop (opening-range low) are pre-computed
the moment the opening range finishes forming, so the live loop can fire the
instant the *live* price crosses the trigger — the systematic version of Ross
Cameron's "enter when the candle is breaking, on faith that the volume is
there." Pure state + decision logic; the loop owns I/O (prices, orders).
State machine per symbol:
waiting - opening range not complete yet (before ~09:35 ET)
armed - range complete and gap/rvol/range qualify -> may fire on a cross
weak - range complete but the setup is too soft to fire (shown, greyed)
fired - a breakout order has been submitted
filled - the position is open at the broker
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import functools
import threading
import time
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
WAITING = "waiting"
ARMED = "armed"
WEAK = "weak"
FIRED = "fired"
FILLED = "filled"
# states that represent a committed trade — pinned across re-ranking so a name
# that fired doesn't get bumped off the board when the gapper ranking rotates
_COMMITTED = (FIRED, FILLED)
def _synced(method):
"""Serialize a book method behind self._lock so the main loop's arm() and
the trigger thread's poll/fire never iterate ``triggers`` while it's being
rebuilt."""
@functools.wraps(method)
def wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
with self._lock:
return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
return wrapper
@dataclass
class ArmedTrigger:
symbol: str
gap_pct: float = 0.0 # DYNAMIC gap (latest vs prev close) — display/rank only
gap_open_pct: float | None = None # STATIC overnight gap (session open vs prev close)
rvol: float = 0.0
# time-of-day rvol (cum vs median(20d) prorated by elapsed session) — the arm
# eligibility signal. Legacy rvol is full-day-mean based: ~0.1-0.3 minutes
# after the open for a NORMAL heavy name, so rvol_min=2 vs legacy armed almost
# nothing early (07-20: IREX 0.76/IRE 0.58/BIYA 1.27 all stuck "weak" while
# breaking out; tod = 16.8/11.9/481). None -> fall back to legacy rvol.
rvol_tod: float | None = None
trigger: float | None = None # opening-range high (entry breakout level)
stop: float | None = None # opening-range low, cushioned (protective stop)
range_pct: float = 0.0 # (high-low)/high — how wide the opening range is
price: float | None = None # latest live trade price
price_ts: float = 0.0 # monotonic time of that price (staleness guard)
cum_volume: float = 0.0 # session cumulative volume (for liquidity sizing)
dollar_vol: float = 0.0 # recent $-volume (liquidity gate: skip thin spikes)
catalyst: str = "" # fresh news headline (if any) — why it's hot
day_open: float | None = None # session-open price (for the day-extension gate)
state: str = WAITING
rank: int = 0
# live price has been observed BELOW the trigger since arming — a fire is a
# fresh CROSS, not "price happens to stand above the level". Without this,
# any blind window (boot after a blocked spell, halt, feed outage) fires
# instantly on stale, already-extended breaks (SNXX 2026-07-21: bought a
# 15-min-old break +1.6% above trigger 18s after restart).
seen_below: bool = False
def distance_pct(self) -> float | None:
"""How far live price is from the trigger, as a fraction.
Negative = still below the trigger (waiting for the break); >= 0 = at or
through it. None until we have both a price and a trigger.
"""
if self.price and self.trigger:
return (self.price - self.trigger) / self.trigger
return None
def as_dict(self) -> dict:
d = self.distance_pct()
return {
"symbol": self.symbol,
"state": self.state,
"rank": self.rank,
"gap": round(self.gap_pct, 2),
"rvol": round(self.rvol, 2),
"rvol_tod": round(self.rvol_tod, 2) if self.rvol_tod is not None else None,
"trigger": round(self.trigger, 4) if self.trigger else None,
"stop": round(self.stop, 4) if self.stop else None,
"price": round(self.price, 4) if self.price else None,
"dist": round(d, 5) if d is not None else None,
"range_pct": round(self.range_pct, 4),
"catalyst": self.catalyst,
}
@dataclass
class ArmedTriggerBook:
"""Tracks the top ``max_armed`` gappers and decides when each may fire."""
max_armed: int = 6
gap_min: float = 3.0 # min overnight gap % to be eligible to fire
gap_max: float = 1e9 # max gap % — skip blow-off gappers (they fade)
# mega-gapper exception: re-admit gaps >= this % DESPITE gap_max, but only on a
# real volume surge (rvol floor below) so reverse-split repricings stay out.
# Year-scale replay 2026-07-06 (n=2,879, split artifacts removed): the 35-150%
# band is dead (+0.02/+0.00R — gap_max earns its keep there), but REAL >150%
# squeezes (n=82, the LHSW/NXTS class) ran +0.63R with 8/14 months >= 0. 0 = off.
gap_squeeze_min: float = 0.0
gap_squeeze_rvol: float = 5.0 # rvol floor for the exception (split fakes ~0.01)
rvol_min: float = 2.0 # min relative volume to be eligible to fire
min_range_pct: float = 0.004 # opening range must be at least this wide
# min recent $-volume to fire. rvol is RELATIVE, so 2x of near-nothing still
# qualifies — thin names then fill at the top of a one-bar spike and reverse
# (observed live: WKSP/LNKS/UWMC entered on 100-400 share bars). 0 = off.
min_dollar_vol: float = 0.0
# max age (s) of the last price before a trigger may fire. A stalled feed
# would otherwise let a name fire on a frozen quote into a reverted market.
# 0 = off.
max_price_age_s: float = 0.0
# fire without a seen-below cross only within this fraction ABOVE the trigger
# ("at the break" tolerance). Beyond it, require a pullback below the trigger
# and a fresh re-cross — stale breaks discovered after a blind window are not
# entries, they're chases. 0 = always require the cross.
fresh_cross_tol: float = 0.015
triggers: dict[str, ArmedTrigger] = field(default_factory=dict)
_lock: object = field(default_factory=threading.RLock, repr=False, compare=False)
def _gap_ok(self, t: ArmedTrigger) -> bool:
# STATIC overnight gap (open vs prev close) defines the validated population.
# The dynamic gap let intraday rallies masquerade as gappers (TVRD 6% true
# gap traded 2026-07-07 as a "13%+ gapper"; audit 2026-07-08). Before the
# open (no session open yet) the dynamic gap is the only available proxy.
g = t.gap_open_pct if t.gap_open_pct is not None else t.gap_pct
if self.gap_min <= g <= self.gap_max:
return True
return (self.gap_squeeze_min > 0
and g >= self.gap_squeeze_min
and t.rvol >= self.gap_squeeze_rvol)
def _eligible(self, t: ArmedTrigger) -> bool:
return (
t.trigger is not None
and t.stop is not None
and t.stop < t.trigger
and self._gap_ok(t)
# tod rvol when the scanner provides it; legacy full-day-mean otherwise
and (t.rvol_tod if t.rvol_tod is not None else t.rvol) >= self.rvol_min
and t.range_pct >= self.min_range_pct
and t.dollar_vol >= self.min_dollar_vol
)
@_synced
def arm(self, candidates: list[dict]) -> None:
"""Refresh the book from a ranked candidate list.
``candidates`` are dicts (best first):
{symbol, gap_pct, rvol, trigger, stop, range_pct, complete}
Symbols already ``fired``/``filled`` are pinned (kept regardless of the
new ranking); the remaining ``max_armed`` slots are filled from the top
of ``candidates`` and (re)classified waiting/armed/weak.
"""
pinned = {s: t for s, t in self.triggers.items() if t.state in _COMMITTED}
new: dict[str, ArmedTrigger] = dict(pinned)
rank = 0
for c in candidates:
sym = c["symbol"]
if sym in new: # already pinned/committed
continue
active = sum(1 for t in new.values() if t.state not in _COMMITTED)
if active >= self.max_armed:
break
rank += 1
t = self.triggers.get(sym) or ArmedTrigger(symbol=sym)
t.gap_pct = float(c.get("gap_pct") or 0.0)
_go = c.get("gap_open_pct")
t.gap_open_pct = float(_go) if _go is not None else None
t.rvol = float(c.get("rvol") or 0.0)
_rt = c.get("rvol_tod")
t.rvol_tod = float(_rt) if _rt is not None else None
t.trigger = c.get("trigger")
t.stop = c.get("stop")
t.range_pct = float(c.get("range_pct") or 0.0)
t.cum_volume = float(c.get("cum_volume") or 0.0)
t.dollar_vol = float(c.get("dollar_vol") or 0.0)
t.catalyst = c.get("catalyst") or ""
t.day_open = c.get("day_open")
t.rank = rank
if not c.get("complete") or t.trigger is None:
t.state = WAITING
elif self._eligible(t):
t.state = ARMED
else:
t.state = WEAK
new[sym] = t
self.triggers = new
@_synced
def update_price(self, symbol: str, price: float | None) -> None:
t = self.triggers.get(symbol)
if t is None:
return
if price is None:
t.price = None # failed fetch -> clear, so we can't fire on stale
else:
t.price = float(price)
t.price_ts = time.monotonic()
if t.trigger is not None and t.price < t.trigger:
t.seen_below = True
@_synced
def fires(self) -> list[ArmedTrigger]:
"""Armed triggers whose live price has reached or crossed the trigger —
and whose price is fresh (a stalled feed must not fire on a frozen quote)."""
now = time.monotonic()
max_age = self.max_price_age_s
return [
t
for t in self.triggers.values()
if t.state == ARMED
and t.price is not None
and t.trigger is not None
and t.price >= t.trigger
and (t.seen_below
or t.price <= t.trigger * (1.0 + self.fresh_cross_tol))
and (max_age <= 0 or (now - t.price_ts) <= max_age)
]
@_synced
def mark_fired(self, symbol: str) -> None:
t = self.triggers.get(symbol)
if t is not None:
t.state = FIRED
@_synced
def mark_filled(self, held_symbols) -> None:
"""Promote tracked symbols that are now open broker positions to filled."""
held = set(held_symbols or ())
for sym, t in self.triggers.items():
if sym in held:
t.state = FILLED
@_synced
def snapshot(self) -> list[dict]:
"""Board-ready rows, ordered armed -> fired -> filled -> waiting -> weak."""
order = {ARMED: 0, FIRED: 1, FILLED: 2, WAITING: 3, WEAK: 4}
return [
t.as_dict()
for t in sorted(
self.triggers.values(),
key=lambda t: (order.get(t.state, 9), t.rank),
)
]