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AnimateDread
0adaea48b6 fix(resume): model reload stalled training - three hardenings on the resume path
A resumed META model hot-looped pass 1 (0->100% scan oscillation, silent for
3 minutes until the stall reporter fired) because EVERY window failed at the
first AD/Wyckoff feature: the init-time param adoption called
ReInitADIndicators unconditionally, destroying five freshly-calculating
indicator instances to recreate them with BYTE-IDENTICAL params (verified by
parsing the .nnw header - the MI tuner had kept the configured settings), at
process start, on a box with 1 GB free of 31. The replacements sat cold for
6+ minutes while full-history resweeps starved the indicator threads harder.

- AdoptIndicatorParams: installs a loaded param set into the tuner and
  rebuilds handles ONLY when the set actually differs from what the live
  indicators run. Both call sites (resume init + panel reload) use it.
- Resumed models get the same 3 warm-up passes as fresh ones. The skip was
  the shared root cause of the cold-ATR (ba13eef), cold-AD (2026-08-11) and
  this incident - custom indicators recompute from scratch every process
  start regardless of what the .nnw proves.
- Cold-sweep backoff: a pass-1 sweep in which every window failed on a
  TRANSIENT cause arms a 5s era-start pause instead of an immediate
  full-history resweep, so the retry loop stops consuming the CPU/memory the
  warming indicators need. The stall reporter names the backoff branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 10:23:11 -04:00
AnimateDread
df48c37f65 feat: per-family x per-side OOS breakdown in the META era report
350-era S2 verdict on SP500 H1: the meta head carries REAL ranking skill
(+1.0-1.3pp mean over base, 101/350 eras clear their own 2-sigma bar, traded
subset wins 66.1% at <30% coverage vs 64.5% base) but 0/350 eras produced a
positive cov x (p - BE): the candidate stream sits 3pp under the derived
geometry's 67.5% break-even and ~2.6pp of recovered skill cannot bridge it.
Skill plateaued by mid-run (1.28pp -> 1.05pp), so more eras only buy
multiplicity, and the deploy gate correctly shipped nothing.

The aggregate can hide a deployable subset (one family/side clearing BE
blended with junk), so the META era line now decomposes the SAME traded
population into MA/RSI/MACD/Ichimoku x LONG/SHORT cells, each as
traded/candidates base->traded win rate. 32 cells is a best-of-N search by
construction - any candidate cell faces the family-wise rule before belief.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 09:03:40 -04:00
AnimateDread
444909d0a3 feat: S2 meta-labeling head - binary trade-quality model over the classic-candidate corpus
The NN now has a target that is not per-bar direction (closed, best-of-999
p=1.0000): P(win | this journaled candidate, at the EA's own SL/TP, net of
cost). One net for all 52 pattern-sides, AIType=AI_META.

- NetForward.mqh: the host-side softmax+CE gradient generalized total==3 ->
  2||3 on both backprop paths; a 2-class softmax IS a logistic head, and no
  compute backend changes.
- SignalMETA.mqh (new): corpus loaded read-only from the LARGEST signal DB on
  disk (decoupled from the config fingerprint that burned four S1 runs); the
  GMT->server offset is measured PER ROW against entryPrice vs bar open
  (DST-immune, histogram logged); a window-span regime filter drops the
  pre-2017 daily-backfill rows; 31-feature setup descriptor appended at the
  input (26 one-hot + side + tanh netVote + SL/TP ATR + spread/ATR).
- Training.mqh: candidate-queued pass 1, binary-target pass 2, per-candidate
  calibration (2.5) and OOS (3) walks. Counter mapping win->Buy / loss->Sell
  lets checkpoint selection, the edge floor, the plateau ladder and the
  family-wise deploy gate run UNCHANGED: precision reads as win rate among
  traded candidates, chance as the base win rate, recalls as sensitivity/
  specificity. Era-end META line: coverage x (p - break-even) vs the null.
- Labels are the side-conditional triple-barrier win caches - never the DB's
  stop-and-reverse outcome. Logit adjustment deliberately skipped (~40% base
  rate). Live inference + online learning guarded off until S3.
- Fingerprint: conditional |TGT:META1; State\META\ folder + 2-output filename
  slot keep meta models fully separate from direction models.

Compiles clean (0 errors, 0 warnings). S2 run = attach a chart with
AIType=AI_META; S3 wires the votes via the per-side hooks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 06:52:31 -04:00
AnimateDread
0848c8a16c fix: live inference queried the 1-tick forming bar - a window training never built
RefreshLatestSignal ran at the first tick after a bar opens and built its
window at r=0: series index 0 at that instant is a candle with one tick of
data - (close-open)/atr ~ 0, high ~ low, degenerate volume, indicators on a
1-tick bar. Training never produces such a window (every labeled bar is fully
closed, entry at that bar's CLOSE), so the deployed model's final timestep -
the one the LSTM/HYBRID output is keyed to - was out-of-distribution on every
live decision, and pass 3's deploy-gate OOS scores measured a different query
than live executed. The parity index is r=1: the newest CLOSED bar, whose
close IS the current price - the exact instant the label's hypothetical entry
happens. Single backtests shared the old skew (same r=0), which is why the
tester agreed with live while both disagreed with training.

Bookkeeping split that the index change forces: m_lastBarTime/dtStudied stay
anchored to the FORMING bar's open (they gate against SERIES_LASTBAR_DATE;
anchoring at bar 1 would re-fire the refresh every tick), while bt - the
arrow, its High/Low placement, and NMS declustering - anchors to the decision
bar, now matching the rescan path's convention.

Also: a failed refresh no longer trades the previous bar's signal for the
whole bar. RefreshLatestSignal returns success, zeroes dPrevSignal on failure
(no opinion beats a stale one), and RefreshConvergedSignal advances dtStudied
only on success so the next tick retries - the tester path (m_lastBarTime)
already worked this way; this is the live path catching up.

FORCES RE-VALIDATION of deployed models: the effective live query distribution
changes. Bundled with the backprop transpose fix's retrain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 18:10:23 -04:00
AnimateDread
c5acc5a7a8 perf: pass 1 forward-passed ~40% of bars that a later pass redid anyway
Pass 1 already skipped its feedForward on QUEUED bars, because pass 2 redoes
them. The same argument covers two more bands it was still forwarding:

  OOS window        (30% of bars) - pass 3 re-forwards every one of them
  calibration band  (~10% of bars) - pass 2.5 re-forwards every one of them

All three passes derive their bounds from the same helpers and apply the
identical eligibility test, so the bar sets are equal by construction, not by
coincidence. Only the two purge bands and the ineligible edge bars are visited
in pass 1 and nowhere else - those keep their forward pass.

The scan's copy was never the one that survived. Its arrow-cache write was
overwritten by pass 3's (with the thresholded, post-training decision), its
status-label paint was transient, and its predicted-class tally measured
last era's weights. Those tallies move to pass 2.5 and pass 3, on the raw
argmax exactly as pass 1 and pass 2 count it, so the population behind the
panel's "Predicted -> Buy/Sell/Neutral" line is unchanged and stays comparable
with the "Actual" line beside it, which pass 1 still accumulates over every
labelled bar.

Verified unaffected by the cut: dPrevSignal and m_lastBarTime are both written
last by bars 0/1, which are label-ineligible and therefore still forwarded, so
FinalizeTrainRun's `dtStudied = m_lastBarTime` and Lifecycle's newBarPending
sentinel read the same values as before.

Correctness, not just speed: batch norm is UNFROZEN during pass 1 (passes 2.5
and 3 freeze it deliberately), so every scan-time forward on a held-out bar was
advancing the BN running mean/variance from data the model is graded on. Those
running statistics are inference-time model state. It is the mild,
unsupervised kind of leakage - feature statistics, not labels - but it fed the
weights pass 3 then scored, and it is now gone.

Cost: ~40% of all bars lose one forward pass per era, ~16% of net time once
pass 2's backward pass is weighted in. Per-dispatch, so it lands on every
backend.

Both variants compile 0 errors / 0 warnings. Build tag scan-nofwd-v5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 16:50:14 -04:00
AnimateDread
e2c959331f perf: the excursion head cost 3.6x era time - cut its dispatches ~250x
Measured on exc-race-v3: LSTM era 300s -> 1087s (net 272->748s, "other"
30->337s). My estimate had been "single-digit percent". The cost is
per-DISPATCH, not per-FLOP, and therefore hits EVERY backend: the head is
19k weights and ~2.4 GFLOP an era - seconds of arithmetic - but ~48k
forward/backward calls x several layer submits each, and its 760-wide
layer exceeds the CPU DLL's inline threshold so each one pays a real
handoff. The classifier's own net time tripled too, from contention with
a second pool on an already-full box.

Three changes, all backend-neutral because they remove submits rather
than tune threads:

SCORE ONLY DISJOINT WINDOWS (~64x). Adjacent bars share all but one bar
of their horizon, so 16k consecutive bars were always ~250 independent
observations - the full-sample tally was never worth more than the
disjoint one, it just quoted an n that was ~64x too large. Dropping it
costs nothing statistically and removes 63 of every 64 forward passes.
The two parallel tallies collapse into one, which is also less code.
The trailing ring still advances on every bar: it needs the outcome
SEQUENCE, and that is array lookups, not a forward pass.

TRAIN ON EVERY 4th PRIMARY BAR (4x). The target is low-dimensional and
strongly autocorrelated - neighbouring bars carry near-identical
excursion information - so per-bar training buys resolution the target
does not have. Strided on ATTEMPTS, not acceptances, so a stretch of
unlabelled bars cannot silently change the spacing.

OWN TIMING COLUMN. The head's passes were landing in the era line's
"other" bucket, which is how a 3.6x regression read as an unexplained
jump in the one column nobody attributes. A cost that cannot be seen in
the timing line cannot be traded off against anything.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 16:38:29 -04:00
AnimateDread
950b0fdab0 diag: name the cause when every feature window fails, and enforce the width contract
Era 0 stalls with "NOT ONE of 54681 scanned bars produced a usable
feature window, windows ok=0 failed=54681" and nothing else. That line
reads identically for a cold ATR, a conditionally-missing optional
feature block and an out-of-range index, so it cannot be diagnosed
without one restart per hypothesis.

Two changes:

1. WIDTH CONTRACT in BufferTempData. Every enabled block must emit
   exactly m_neuronsCount values on EVERY bar. A block that emits its
   values on some bars and skips them on others (indicator, panel or
   series unavailable for that bar) does not merely shorten the window -
   it SHIFTS every feature after it into the wrong slot, and the net
   then trains on silently misaligned inputs that still look like a
   valid window to everything downstream. Now rejected, rolled back and
   reported once, naming the optional blocks (XA / SPR / swing context)
   as the ones carrying an availability test. Worth having independently
   of the current stall.

2. BuildFeatureWindow records WHICH lookback slot rejected and how much
   of the window was assembled, and the pass-1 stall report renders it:
   "slot 0 of 20 REJECTED (window had 0 of 760)" is an indicator warm-up
   or history-edge read; "every lookback bar ACCEPTED and the window was
   still short: 640 of 760" is a missing 6-value block.

No behaviour change on a healthy run: the width check is an equality
that already holds, and the diagnostics render only inside the
total-failure branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 10:31:56 -04:00
AnimateDread
2d28f6542b feat: excursion-size head (Stage 1, measurement only)
Direction is closed - normalised asymmetry fails on three instruments
with a working positive control, and the classifier's own best-of-999
era-cap test agrees (+0.9pp = 1.48 sigma, family-wise p=1.0000). SIZE is
a different question and RANGE clears at ~4x its null.

Checked the denomination before building on that, since the source memo
warns to: m_excUpCache holds (maxHigh - fill)/ATR, so "RANGE is
predictable" is a claim about travel RELATIVE to current ATR, not a
restatement of "ATR is autocorrelated". It is exactly the part a fixed
multiple (stop 3.31*ATR, target 1.64*ATR) discards.

A second small CNet, 760 -> 24 -> 32 sigmoid outputs = P(price reaches
ladder rung k) upward and downward. Survival parameterisation rather than
regressing the multiple, because it needs nothing new from CNet: sigmoid
outputs and the per-neuron delta the `total != 3` branch already applies
(a quantile head would need a linear activation and a pinball gradient in
Network.mqh, Network.cl and the DirectML path, on a class four topologies
share). Targets are free - m_ladderUpAt already records first-touch age
per rung with 0 meaning never reached.

Separate net, not extra outputs on the classifier: more outputs would
change m_outputNeuronsCount, the .nnw shape and the fingerprint, and push
the count off 3 - the exact condition backProp uses to select the joint
softmax gradient the 3-class head depends on. The classifier is
bit-for-bit unaffected and this is removable without trace.

STAGE 1 PLACES NO ORDERS. It reports a Brier skill score against the
constant per-rung base rate - the baseline a fixed ATR multiple already
assumes - with both predictors fitted IS and evaluated OOS, so neither
gets a look at the test set. Positive skill justifies Stage 2 (drive
SL/TP and sizing off ExcursionQuantile, which is defined and deliberately
uncalled). Zero or negative means ATR already carries everything and
Stage 2 must not be built.

Trains only on primary occurrences: the replay queue oversamples for
CLASS balance, and a direction-balanced sample is a biased SIZE sample.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 07:40:01 -04:00
AnimateDread
0c8b4dc30d fix: the deploy gate graded the un-thresholded model
coveragePct, dirPrecPct and the declustered TRADED tally were all computed
from oPrevSignal - the RAW argmax - while the live order, the arrow and the
panel all run on oDeploySignal, which is argmax AFTER the confidence
threshold. The gate was certifying a strategy the EA does not trade.

Invisible until now: the threshold sat at ~0.02, so the two populations
were the same set. The held-out calibration slice (2189316) moved it to
0.14-0.40 and the gap opened immediately - PAI era 256 graded 100% coverage
while its traded population was 21% (3,399 of ~16,200 OOS bars).

Consequences that were being hidden:
  - coveragePct >= minCoveragePct was tested against the wrong population,
    so a model whose TRADED coverage falls under the 24.8% floor still read
    as clearing it
  - precSE = sqrt(p(1-p)/n) used n ~16,000 instead of n ~3,400, so the
    EDGE_MIN_SIGMAS bar was ~2.2x too lenient on the real evidence
  - the NMS replay declustered a different, larger stream than live, so
    threshold-rejected bars consumed cluster slots and set alternation state

Gate quantities now read m_oosBuyFired/m_oosSellFired (the thresholded
population, already tracked for the live-precision line) and the NMS replay
runs on oDeploySignal. The threshold can only turn a direction into Neutral,
never flip a side, so the fired set is a strict subset and every per-bar
outcome is the one already computed.

Recall and logBuyPrecPct deliberately stay on the raw argmax: they measure
intrinsic class separation, and thresholding them would conflate "cannot
separate the classes" with "declines to act on the separation it found".

This is the 9a7c37f defect class, and the NMS block carried a comment
warning about it while committing it three lines above.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 19:34:32 -04:00
AnimateDread
2189316c35 fix: the operating point was fitted on bars the net had memorized
FitDirConfThreshold harvested its margin histogram from pass 2's own
backprop samples. Pairing every fit against the same era's OOS result
shows what that measured:

  PAI era  1  IS 25% cov @ 66.1% (-0.8pp)  ->  OOS 64% (-3pp)   gap  +2.1pp
  PAI era 76  IS 90% cov @ 79.6% (+12.7pp) ->  OOS 65% (-2pp)   gap +14.6pp
  LSTM era 9  IS 77% cov @ 81.6% (+14.6pp) ->  OOS 63% (-4pp)   gap +18.6pp

The gap grows monotonically while OOS stays flat, so within a handful of
eras the curve stops describing behaviour on unseen bars. That is fatal
here specifically, because the objective branches on the SIGN of
(p - break-even): the memorized curve reads +12pp at 95% coverage, so
coverage x (p - p0) correctly maximises coverage and returns ~0.02 - fire
on every bar. The "p < p0 -> get more selective" branch, which is the
actual regime and the entire point of 983a6a3, could never fire because IS
never showed p < p0.

Carve a calibration slice out of the IS span - DIR_CONF_CALIB_PCT_OF_IS,
purged from backprop by one label horizon on BOTH sides (the far-side
purge is not optional: without it the newest training bars carry labels
partly decided by price action inside the slice, putting the memorization
straight back into the curve). Score it in a new chunked pass 2.5, after
pass 2 has trained and before pass 3 grades - the only position where the
histogram is simultaneously not-trained-on, not-graded, and current with
the weights it will be applied to.

Costs 15% of the training data. Worth it beyond honesty: the deploy gate
needs dirPrecPct > chance + EDGE_MIN_SIGMAS*SE, and a threshold pinned
near zero dilutes any edge concentrated in the confident bars across every
bar the model calls, driving dirPrecPct toward chance by construction. A
threshold that can be selective is the only mechanism by which a small,
concentrated edge could ever clear that gate.

Also: a sparse histogram now KEEPS the previous threshold instead of
resetting to 0.0. A failed measurement must not decay to the most exposed
setting in the range.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 15:58:18 -04:00
AnimateDread
d919a4aea2 feat: 10-bar decluster window + alternation on every signal consumer
SignalClusterWindow 3 -> 10 for all topologies. On H1 a 3-bar window
collapsed only the tightest runs and left visible clusters at every
turn; 10 bars is closer to the spacing of genuinely distinct setups.

ALTERNATION. Rule 1 only collapses a same-direction run INSIDE the
window; past it a second Buy is emitted with no Sell between, giving
Buy/Buy/Buy/Sell. With both directions tradeable that sequence is the
model re-entering a move it is already in rather than finding a new
one. The kept sequence must now alternate: the first signal passes,
and after that a direction passes only if the last KEPT signal was the
opposite one.

Added to ALL THREE consumers, with identical logic, because they must
agree:
  - NmsLiveAccept        -> the live trade
  - pass 3's OOS replay  -> the tally the deploy gate grades
  - PruneDirectionalClusters -> the drawn history
A rule applied to only some of these certifies one strategy and trades
another - the same defect class as the geometry the gate certified
while OpenParams placed something else (9a7c37f) - and would draw the
user arrows the EA would never have taken.

Deliberately NOT applied to the LABEL. The barrier target has no "must
flip" invariant: consecutive Buy labels are routinely correct, and an
earlier alternation gate was removed with the triple-barrier relabel
for exactly that reason. This filters what is ACTED ON, which is what
"applies to training" can honestly mean here - pass 3's declustered
tally is the training-side number that decides deployment.

BothDirectionsTradeable() is the stated precondition (with one side
disabled there is no opposite to wait for, so alternation would
suppress everything after the first call). This build has no
long-only/short-only input, so it is constant true - kept as a named
predicate so a future direction restriction has one place to change
rather than three call sites silently assuming both sides.

Build tag -> nms-alternate-v4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 14:26:12 -04:00
AnimateDread
ccfbc62561 fix: the recall gate was unsatisfiable and the LR decay was a spiral
Both made the run structurally unable to succeed, independently of any
signal in the data. Found by reading the 13:01 log.

RECALL GATE. m_objectiveMet required Buy, Sell AND Neutral OOS recall
each >= 40%. First-touch resolution (ce52654) collapsed Neutral from
the ~94% majority it was under exact-pivot labels to a same-bar-tie
residue - 250 of 38,261 bars, 0.65% - so the floor was asking the model
to identify 40% of coin-flip ties before it could converge. Measured:
CONV, LSTM and HYBRID all logged "Neutral:0% (need >=40% each)" on
every era. No model could ever satisfy it; every run was destined for
the plateau ladder or the era cap.

Only the DIRECTIONAL floors are load-bearing for the anti-collapse job
the gate exists to do: an all-Neutral model shows Buy and Sell recall
at 0% and is blocked by them. Neutral's own floor guarded the mirror
bias (over-calling Buy/Sell at Neutral's expense), which was real at
94% prevalence and is not at 0.65% - there, almost never calling
Neutral is correct rather than biased.

Prevalence-guarded rather than hardcoded off, so it returns by itself
if a future label rule makes Neutral substantial again. Deliberately
NOT extended to Buy/Sell: exempting a thin directional class reopens
the era-44-46 hole, which directionalRecallMeasured only half-covers -
it checks those classes were MEASURED, not that they passed.

ETA DECAY. A regressing era restored the checkpoint, reset the
optimizer and cut eta - all on the FIRST regression. The next era then
started from an identical state with a smaller step, regressed again,
and got the same treatment. The loop is self-sustaining and cannot
discover anything, because rolling the weights back is exactly what
removes the exploration that would end it.

Measured on PAI: eras 2-11 every one a regression against era 1, eta
0.000594 -> 0.000024, dW/W 0.000%/0.000% from era 2 onward. Ten eras,
~45s each, reproducing era 1 exactly and unable to do anything else.

Now requires ETA_DECAY_PATIENCE_ERAS consecutive regressions - the
standard ReduceLROnPlateau formulation. A single bad era is noise, and
an improving era clears the counter so alternating runs never
accumulate into a decay.

Build tag -> gate-patience-v3. It had not moved in six commits, which
is why the running binary could not be identified from its own log.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 13:28:58 -04:00
AnimateDread
ba13eefecc fix: a resumed model cached a cold ATR as permanent, so it never trained
BufferTempData cached EVERY failure - m_featureCacheHasValue[idx]=true
with m_featureCacheValid[idx]=false - and the cache never re-tries a
miss. So a single feature read taken before the terminal had finished
calculating the indicator buffers marked those bars unusable for the
rest of the process, even though the data arrived milliseconds later.

MT5 fills an indicator's buffers asynchronously after the handle is
created, and a cold ATR returns 0 for EVERY index, not just its warm-up
tail. BufferTempDataCompute rejects a bar with no ATR (correctly - the
price features would be meaningless), so the whole window failed, and
the whole cache was poisoned.

Only resumed models were hit, because only they read features that
early. Topology.mqh sets m_warmupPassesRemaining = netLoaded ? 0 : 3:
a fresh start sits through three separately-scheduled Train() calls
before anything touches a feature, which is exactly what those passes
are for. A resumed one skips them and TuneIndicatorsAndTrain drives
StartLabelCachePrebuild and the MI report from the first chart event.
Its rationale - "a restart already has a proven-synced history" - holds
for HISTORY and not for INDICATORS, which are recreated every process
start.

Downstream: BuildFeatureWindow failed on every bar of every era, so
add_loop never went true, so pass 2, pass 3, the era counter and the
checkpoint were all skipped and pass 1 swept 0->100% forever. The
"0 samples" MI report line at startup was the same failure, four
seconds earlier, already visible in the log.

- a miss is now cached only when it is PERMANENT; the two "not ready
  yet" guards mark m_featureFailTransient and are recomputed on the
  next visit. Steady-state cost is ~ind_Periods bars per era, not 54k.
- an era that discards itself now drops the feature cache before
  restarting, so any remaining cause of this state self-heals instead
  of looping.

Deleting the .nnw "fixed" this only by turning the model back into a
fresh one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 11:41:31 -04:00
AnimateDread
464a0fe19d diag: an era that discards itself now says so instead of scanning forever
add_loop is exactly "at least one bar produced a usable feature
window". When it stays false, pass 2, pass 3, the era counter, the
checkpoint and every log line in the era-end block are ALL skipped:
Train() returns having done nothing, m_eraResumePending is still false,
and the next call restarts the SAME era from bar 0. That is an
infinite 0->100% "scan" loop that prints absolutely nothing - the only
remaining silent restart path in Train(), and it matches the reported
symptom exactly.

Pass 1 now counts usable vs unusable windows and reports at the pass
boundary, which demonstrably executes:
  - total failure routes through ReportTrainStall (already capped at
    one line a minute, and carries the run-state flags) naming the
    counts, the required window width and the bar count
  - success prints how long the scan took and how many samples it
    handed to pass 2, but only once the era has passed 10s - a fast
    era stays as quiet as before, a slow one distinguishes "advancing"
    from "sweeping the same bars forever"

A PARTIAL failure is normal and deliberately does not shout: pass 1
walks oldest-to-newest and the deepest bars predate the indicators'
warm-up, so those windows fail and are cached as misses.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 11:29:33 -04:00
AnimateDread
1a5157befc fix: training could only advance one 120ms chunk per bar
ScheduleTrainingIfNeeded() armed the next Train() call only when
dtStudied < lastBarDate. That watermark test is right for a CONVERGED
model - one inference refresh per new bar - and wrong for a training
run, because Train() is chunked: it does ~120ms of work and yields,
needing thousands of calls to finish one era, and every one of those
calls has to be armed from there.

dtStudied is two incompatible things. Train() sets it to the training
WINDOW START (~2008); FinalizeTrainRun() sets it to the last bar
SCANNED (~now). So the moment any run finalized, the scheduler went
silent until the next candle closed. On H1 that is one chunk per hour.

The symptom was indistinguishable from a hang: no era lines, no
heartbeats, not one of the six instrumented stall branches - because
Train() was not being CALLED. The TRAIN STALL line that caught it
reported runActive=Y only because m_trainRunActive had been set
microseconds earlier in that same call, and eraResume=N proved no era
was in flight. Two log bursts, 28 minutes apart, exactly one H1 bar.

Before 0c85c54 this was survivable rather than correct: the saved
watermark left almost no bars eligible per era, so eras were nearly
free and one call per bar still looked like progress.

An unconverged model is now always pending. Pause/stop are handled by
m_trainingPaused/m_trainingStopRequested, which Train() checks itself.

Also: the one Train() exit that tears down the whole run on a buffer
failure was completely silent - it now says so. And the build tag moves
to train-dispatch-v2; it had not moved since ce52654, which is why the
running binary could not be identified from its own log.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 10:06:49 -04:00
AnimateDread
3855d4666a diag: the heartbeat could be outrun by the condition it watched for
It fired only on 4096-item boundaries once an era had already run 60s. Those
boundaries are all crossed in the first few chunks of pass 1, so an era that
became slow AFTER them printed nothing at all - which is precisely what
happened: 20 minutes, four pegged cores, zero heartbeats. I read that silence
as "the era loop is never reached" and went looking for a wedge above it. The
silence may simply have meant "past the last boundary".

A diagnostic whose trigger can be outrun by the condition it watches for is
worse than no diagnostic, because it produces confident wrong conclusions.

Now time-gated: checked every 256 items (the mask only keeps GetTickCount off
the hot path), prints when the era has run >60s and >30s since the last line,
up to 12 per era. Progress/phase for the panel is still published on every
call, before any gate.

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2026-08-10 07:44:03 -04:00
AnimateDread
b461844767 fix: prebuild and era sized different windows; diag: Train() names its branch
TWO things, one incident.

1) THE BUG I SHIPPED IN 0c85c54. m_tuneStartTrainBar is declared, initialised
to 0, and NEVER ASSIGNED - the assignment existed before the God-class split
and the split dropped it, leaving a dead member. Harmless while nothing read
it; a real defect the moment 0c85c54 made StartLabelCachePrebuild() reset
dtStudied from it. Train() then computed the window as
max(StartTrainBar, floor) while the prebuild computed max(0, floor), where
StartTrainBar is the non-zero datetime OnChartEventHandler passes through from
the "New Bar" event. The two therefore disagreed about `bars`, so
EnsureBarCachesCapacity() saw a changed size at era start, wiped the caches,
and re-armed a full 38k-bar prebuild - instead of training. Restored the
assignment so both sides evaluate the identical expression.

2) THE REASON IT TOOK ALL NIGHT TO FIND. Train() is a state machine with six
early-return branches above the era loop and every one of them is silent. Four
charts burned a core each for 15 minutes with an empty journal: the pass
heartbeats (694b756) proved the era loop was never reached, no prebuild
completion line appeared either, and nothing external can see inside a single
MQL5 thread - per-thread CPU says "busy", file writes say nothing, and the VPS
has no debugger. That is an undiagnosable state, and it is the thing to fix,
not just the bug of the day.

ReportTrainStall() now names the branch Train() is taking whenever no era has
completed for 3 minutes, at most once a minute per signal, with the state that
decides the branch: run/prebuild/simOos/resume flags, era, dtStudied, and -
for the cache-invalidation branch specifically - BOTH bar counts, since two
sizings disagreeing is exactly what re-arms the prebuild forever. Silent on a
healthy run: an era completing resets the clock.

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2026-08-10 07:32:08 -04:00
AnimateDread
783fd9e7a6 fix: the panel showed "100%" for the whole of pass 1
The simple panel derived its percentage from pass 2's counters:
(m_isTrainCursor+1) / max(m_isTrainQueueCount,1). During pass 1 those are 0
and 0, so the expression is (0+1)/max(0,1) = 100%. An era spends its first
pass scanning ~38k bars - minutes of work - and the panel reported that phase
as finished the entire time. Observed by the user as "started learning at 100%
of their era and are stuck there", and it actively misled the diagnosis: the
one number on screen said the opposite of what was happening.

The UI cannot fix this on its own - it can see pass 2's counters but has no
way to know which pass owns them. So each pass now PUBLISHES its own progress
and a short phase name through TrainHeartbeat (which every pass already calls
per item), and the panel just displays them: "learning (era 45, scan 34%)".
Published before the heartbeat's 4096-item journal gate, so the panel updates
continuously while the journal stays quiet.

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2026-08-10 07:22:29 -04:00
AnimateDread
694b75686e diag: slow eras must explain themselves - heartbeat + era time split + pass-1 paint
The 23:42 restart left all four charts grinding ~25x slower than the 18:01
baseline (era lines in 86 seconds there; 20+ minutes of nothing here), and
NOTHING could say why from outside: pass 1 logs nothing, its status paint sat
inside the !wouldQueue branch so the IS sweep - 80% of the pass, processed
FIRST - painted nothing either, the VPS has no debugger for a thread stack,
and the hourly new-bar cache invalidation cancels and restarts an unfinished
era, so a slow era can stay invisible FOREVER. Externals gave: four chart
threads at ~95% pure user-mode compute, DLL pool idle, no file writes. That
narrows it to "MQL5-side per-item work in the era passes" and no further.

So training now explains itself:

- TrainHeartbeat: one line per 4096 processed items, only after an era has
  already run 60s, at most 6 lines per era - a healthy era stays exactly as
  quiet as before. Reports position and the cumulative split: feature-window
  builds vs net forward/backprop vs everything else. Hooked into all three
  passes.
- The era summary line gains "| ERA TOOK Ns (feature windows X, net fwd/back
  Y, other Z)" whenever an era exceeded 120s.
- Pass 1 paints its progress for QUEUED bars too, not just the OOS slice, so
  the panel shows "learning (era N)" instead of sitting on the idle writer's
  "Getting ready..." for the entire IS sweep. The label is throttled
  internally; painting per bar costs nothing.

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2026-08-10 00:10:45 -04:00
AnimateDread
0c85c54a5b fix: a restart no longer loses the measured geometry or the training window
Terminal restart, 22:25: all four resumed models sat on empty windows with
enum 2:6 barriers. Three interlocking causes, all visible in one log excerpt:

1) THE PRE-SCAN WINDOW WAS SIZED BY THE SAVED WATERMARK. A resumed model's
dtStudied sits at its last studied bar, so Bars(dtStudied, now) ~ 0 and the
resumed-model MI pre-scan built a zero-bar "complete" label cache - logged as
"Buy: 0 | Sell: 0 | Neutral: 0". Train()'s own era start RESETS dtStudied to
the training-window rule before computing its window; the pre-scan did not.
The rule is now factored into TrainWindowStart() and both use it. The scan
also refuses to arm before SERIES_SYNCHRONIZED (it ran in the same second as
OnInit), and deployed models keep their watermark - for them it gates
inference recency, not a training window.

2) THE HORIZON LATCHED ON AN INDICATOR WARM-UP. ComputeBarrierHorizonBars ran
against a ZigZag with 0 calculated legs, fell back, and EnsureBarrierHorizon
latched fallback(32) x slMult x tpMult = 384 for the process lifetime. A
leg-starved horizon is now PROVISIONAL: re-resolved on the next rebuild, the
label cache wiped if it moved (labels from two horizons answer different
questions), and the geometry deriver refuses to run from it - a pair derived
over a warm-up window would get PINNED.

3) THE DERIVED GEOMETRY WAS NEVER PERSISTED. The .cfg is written at model
creation and at weights-reset - both BEFORE era 0 derives - so the measured
pair lived only in memory: every restart read back zeros, adopted nothing,
fell back to the enum barriers, and the era-0-only gate meant a resumed model
could NEVER re-derive. A full day of training on 3.33/1.62 resumed as 2:6.
Now: the settled pair is pinned to the .cfg the moment derivation completes
(one-shot, atomic write), and the derive gate accepts any model with no
pinned pair, not just era 0 - mid-run stability is carried by
m_geometryDerived itself, which never allows a second derivation.

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2026-08-09 22:40:43 -04:00
AnimateDread
199726f651 fix: a one-sided era can no longer become the best checkpoint
Measured on HYBRID, era 29 of the first win-scored run: the model collapsed
to always-Buy and was crowned "new best selection score 67.1%". Under
win-based scoring that is not a coincidence - the always-call-the-drift-side
model IS the chance reference, so it scores exactly chance (P(winLong) ~ 67%
on SP500), while every honest two-sided era scores 63-66% because shorts win
less often against the drift. Raw score ranking therefore actively prefers
the degenerate model, every regression restores back to it, and live NMS
collapses its near-constant signal to ~25 trades per era - observed as
"hybrid barely trades".

bothSidesLive already blocked one-sided eras from DEPLOYING (tradeableOK,
371f8aa), but among not-yet-deployable eras the score alone ranked - the same
early phase the coverage credit was added for, failing the same way through a
different door.

The ranking key is now three lexicographic tiers: deployable > two-sided >
score. A one-sided era cannot displace a two-sided best regardless of score -
by construction its score is a property of the data's drift, not the model -
and a two-sided era displaces a one-sided best no matter how much lower it
scores. m_bestBothSidesLive is snapshotted with the checkpoint and reset with
the rest of the best-tracking state.

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2026-08-09 21:19:44 -04:00
AnimateDread
5cef0947f4 fix: the deploy gate was benchmarking a win rate against a label frequency
The gate rests on an invariant stated at ExpertSignalAIBase.mqh:199 - under a
driftless walk P(touch +k before -m) is m/(m+k), and break-even for a k:m trade
is ALSO m/(m+k), so "beats chance" and "is profitable" are the same test.

That invariant needs reward >= risk, and the measured geometry no longer
satisfies it. With target 1.62*ATR and stop 3.33*ATR, break-even is 67.3%, but
both-won bars were stripped out of Buy and Sell so the label base rate read
37.5%. chancePrecPct is max(BuyTotal,SellTotal)/bars, so the gate was clearing
models nearly 30pp short of break-even: 42% "directional precision" is +4 sigma
against 37.5% and loses money on every single trade. Live since 217b9bc.

Root cause is that label agreement stopped being the same question as trade
profitability. Buy implies winLong, but the converse fails on every both-won
bar, and the label can only name one of two directions that both pay.

So stop asking the model whether it matched a label and start asking whether
its trade paid:

- cache winLong/winShort per bar beside the label, under the same validity
  flag; published from the barrier walk before the collapse to 3 classes
- dirPrecPct now counts wins on the side actually called
- chancePrecPct is max(P(winLong), P(winShort)), MEASURED - the textbook
  m/(m+k) would credit SP500's drift to the model
- the NMS "what would I have made" pair, the live-fired precision, and the
  IS/OOS cumulative win rates all move to the same test. IS and OOS are read
  side by side as the overfitting signal, so measuring one in wins and the
  other in agreement would put a fixed gap between them that has nothing to do
  with generalization
- the confidence threshold is FITTED on wins too, so the operating point
  maximises what the gate grades
- per-class label-agreement precision is still computed and logged; it is the
  right diagnostic for class separation, just not for a deploy decision
- era line renamed dir-precision -> win-rate, chance -> chance=break-even

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2026-08-09 16:00:51 -04:00
AnimateDread
19dfb91108 feat: fitted directional confidence threshold - selectivity gets a mechanism
The training loss and the selection metric wanted different things and only
the second one knew it. Logit-adjusted cross-entropy has no term for "how
often should I trade", so the head calls a direction on 87-91% of bars. The
selection metric is precision x coverage credit, saturating at the coverage
floor - above the floor extra calls earn NOTHING and only precision counts.
So selection wanted few good calls, the loss produced many mediocre ones, and
all selection could do was pick the least-bad era out of what it was handed.
Nothing pushed the model toward selectivity.

This gives the decision RULE the policy instead of distorting the loss (which
is estimating class probabilities correctly, and a probability estimate should
not be bent to encode a trading policy - Elkan 2001: estimate, then choose the
operating point separately). AdjustedSignalFromSoftmax now abstains unless the
winning direction's softmax margin over its best rival clears a fitted
threshold. Margin, not the winning probability: the latter moves with overall
calibration rather than with how close the decision actually was.

Fitted on IS, applied to OOS and live. Pass 2 already forward-passes every IS
sample, so the margin histogram is harvested there for free (primary
occurrences only, so the oversampled replay queue cannot skew the operating
point); the fit runs at the end of pass 2, BEFORE pass 3, so the deploy gate
grades the thresholded model on bars the threshold never saw. Fitting on
pass 3's own predictions would be choosing the operating point on the data
being graded - the best-of-N error corrected in five other places here.

Objective: maximise IS directional precision subject to still clearing the
SAME coverage floor the deploy gate uses (base rate x 0.25, re-derived
locally so the two cannot drift apart). Swept top-down in one pass; ties go
to the LOWER threshold, since equal precision for less coverage is strictly
worse. Under DIR_CONF_MIN_FIT_CALLS (200) it runs unthresholded rather than
on a guess.

The threshold is part of the MODEL, not the run: captured with
Net.CaptureWeights(), restored with the weights at both restore sites, and
appended to the .cfg under the same length-guard convention so a deployed
model reloads at the operating point its gate actually cleared. A pre-2026-08-09
.cfg reads 0.0, which is exactly the behaviour it was trained under.

Per-era line now prints "@margin>=X.XX" next to coverage, so a coverage drop
can be attributed to the operating point rather than guessed at.

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2026-08-09 15:04:37 -04:00
AnimateDread
371f8aaecd fix: the Adam second moment was never Adam - all four tiers
Root cause of the B=32 regression, and it predates F4 entirely. Every Adam
kernel stored v already square-rooted and then fed that stored value back in
as if it were the variance:

    v_new = sqrt(b2 * v_old + (1 - b2) * g^2)

That recursion has a fixed point at v ~= b2 = 0.999 for ANY gradient below
unit scale, so the denominator stops tracking the gradient and Adam degrades
into plain SGD with lr = lt. Measured against the shipped WarriorCPU.dll
(batch_accum_check.cpp, TestOptimizerScaleInvariance), 4000 steps of a
constant gradient: 3285x less displacement at |g|=1e-5 than at |g|=1, where
a scale-invariant optimizer gives the same distance for both. After the fix
all six magnitudes read 1.199 and v tracks |g| exactly.

It hit conv/LSTM specifically because they sit behind a batch-norm with
running variance ~2.6e+05, so their gradients arrive divided by ~500 - deep
in the degraded regime - while the dense stack near the loss stayed in the
working one. In situ on SP500 H1: lstm1 dW/W 2.62/10.0/7.14% -> 0.024/0.022/
0.003%, conv1 decaying to 0.000% by era 30. NeuronBatchNorm.mqh already
squared v back for gamma/beta and its comment named the kernels as wrong,
which is exactly why gamma/beta kept training while the stages behind froze.

Persisted .nnw needs no migration - v keeps its std-dev meaning.

Also, the two ways F4 exposed it, both mine:

- No LR compensation for B fewer steps per era. sqrt(B) for adaptive methods
  (Krizhevsky 2014; Granziol et al. 2022), applied once in
  InitialEtaForOptimizer(). Linear scaling (Goyal et al. 2017) is for SGD.
- Plateau patience denominated in eras, so raising B made the ladder 32x more
  impatient in its only unit. PAI converged at era 41 on ~49k updates where
  the same config had been finding new bests at era 1028.
  TrainPlateauPatienceEras() stretches it by the same sqrt(B).

TRAIN_BATCH_SIZE 32 -> 8 so the patience stretch stays affordable (8 -> 23
eras per stage, not 8 -> 45). Both helpers are identities at B=1.

Deploy gate: DEPLOY_MIN_SIDE_RECALL_PCT (10%) folded into tradeableOK. The
perceptron reported Sell:0% recall in all 41 eras, cleared the floor on Buy
alone at 36.6% vs 34% chance, deployed, and sprayed buy arrows. Folded into
the ranking key rather than checked at deploy time so a one-sided era cannot
become best-so-far in the first place.

Deinit: the arrow purge now runs BEFORE ExtPanel.Destroy(), an unbounded
CAppDialog teardown that sat ahead of it - the same ordering inversion the
rule there exists to prevent. CONV was force-terminated 4.8 s into OnDeinit
(vs ~1.1 s for the three that finished) having reached none of its cleanup,
so its arrows stayed on the chart. Steps are now timed in the log.

PurgeChart's verification rescan filtered on OBJ_ARROW, the same blind spot
as the bulk delete, so "persisted 10 ... cleared 0" passed silently. It now
walks every object type and reports the object counts when both are zero.

Both build variants compile 0 errors / 0 warnings; both DLLs rebuilt.
FORCES A RETRAIN (already forced by N1) and both DLLs must ship with the .ex5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 14:02:35 -04:00
AnimateDread
0c01dc279b feat: mini-batch gradient accumulation (F4), front-end-aware capacity budget (F6), split Wyckoff categoricals (N1)
Completes the 2026-08-09 training audit. FORCES A RETRAIN of every
Wyckoff-enabled config (N1 re-keys the fingerprint), and BOTH DLLs must be
redeployed alongside the .ex5 - they carry new exports.

F4 - mini-batch accumulation, TRAIN_BATCH_SIZE=32. Training was pure online
SGD (one weight update per bar), which is the mechanical source of the
era-to-era whipsaw every downstream guard was built to cope with. The O(n^2)
outer product is native - AccumulateWeightGrad / AccumulateWeightGradConv /
AccumulateBufferInto in Network.cl, WarriorCPU and WarriorDML - while the
optimizer step is host-side MQL5 shared by all tiers (ApplyAccumToBlock), so
there is one Adam/SGD implementation instead of four that can drift.
  - the LSTM needs no outer-product kernel (WeightsGradient already holds the
    sample's full dW) but could NOT simply be left un-zeroed between samples:
    CPU_LSTMSeqBackward/DML_LSTMSeqBackward memset it on entry. Hence a
    separate accumulator plus an elementwise add.
  - batch-norm gamma/beta accumulate in host arrays, not new BatchOptions
    slots - BN_OPT_STRIDE is baked into every persisted .nnw.
  - scoped to pass 2; online learning keeps immediate updates. Every save /
    checkpoint / scoring boundary flushes, scaling by the real sample count.
  - degrades to per-sample updates (one log line) on a tier that cannot
    accumulate, so old devices and DLL-free builds are unaffected.
  - verified offline: DirectML/batch_accum_check.cpp drives the real exports
    against an independent reference; at B=1 the accumulator matches the
    shipped unbatched kernel's own gradient to 1.1e-16. Math only - the
    in-situ check remains the per-layer dW/W report on a real era.

F6 - ComputeFirstLayerWidth budgeted against the RAW input width even where a
conv/LSTM front end had already reduced it, so an LSTM's dense stack was
charged for 1,280 inputs when it receives 64. Confirmed from the deployed
.cfg files: CONV, LSTM and HYBRID were all pinned at the 16-unit floor. Now
budgeted against the front-end output and capped at it (never fan out), with
the derivation reordered so both stages settle first.

N1 - EventCode/EventPhase/StructuralPhase are signed categoricals packing
direction and Wyckoff stage into one scalar across a sign discontinuity. Split
into direction + [0,1] magnitude, the same convention the base OHLC block uses.
Information-preserving; 13 readings now occupy 16 inputs.

Compiled clean (0 errors, 0 warnings); both DLLs rebuilt.

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2026-08-09 11:48:03 -04:00
AnimateDread
274630f802 fix: training-stability audit fixes F1/F2/F3/F5 - unbiased shuffle, real plateau escapes, fresh optimizer state on restore, pure OOS metric
Four of the six findings from research/training_pipeline_audit_2026-08-09.md
(F4 mini-batching and F6 feature re-encode deliberately deferred - see the
report's implementation-status section for why):

- F1: pass-2 Fisher-Yates (and AutoTune's MI block shuffle) used MathRand()%,
  which is 15-bit - provably non-uniform on every full-history era over 32,768
  queued samples. New 30-bit ShuffleRandomIndex().
- F2: plateau warm restarts were a no-op whenever eta already sat at its
  ceiling (the normal state of a non-regressing plateau) - the ladder was just
  a 24-era countdown. Restarts now overshoot to 5x the ceiling
  (PLATEAU_RESTART_BOOST) and anneal geometrically back over the patience
  window, SGDR-style; ETA_MIN widened 1e-4 -> 1e-5 so the decay schedule has
  real range.
- F3: checkpoint restores put weights back but kept the rejected trajectory's
  Adam moments, so the optimizer immediately pushed back toward the rolled-back
  state (the restore->regress->restore oscillation). CNet::ResetOptimizerState()
  zeroes moments/momentum/step counters (weights, BN statistics, gamma/beta
  untouched) on every mid-run restore, every boosted restart, and the
  deploy-time restore that online learning continues from.
- F5: batch-norm running statistics now freeze for the pass-3 OOS scoring walk,
  so the selection metric the checkpoint ranking and deploy gate read is a pure
  function of the checkpoint instead of partly measuring BN drift. Defensive
  unfreeze in FinalizeTrainRun covers stop-mid-pass; live/online adaptation and
  the OOS continual-learning simulation stay adaptive by design.

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2026-08-09 10:54:09 -04:00
AnimateDread
ee48381cbd fix: NMS gates the TRADE, not just the arrow - one arrow is now one trade
NmsLiveAccept() appeared in exactly one place: wrapped around DrawObject().
It never touched dPrevSignal, and dPrevSignal is what LongCondition() /
ShortCondition() / SignedAIConfidence() read. So a declustered bar lost its
arrow and still opened a position.

Measured on SP500 H1 2026-08-09: CONV called a direction on 64% of bars,
so the ~500 bars visible on screen held ~320 decisions - and ~40 arrows
were drawn. Roughly one arrow per eight positions the EA would take.

And the survivors are not a random eighth. Rule 2 of the declustering
keeps the HIGHER-CONFIDENCE side of a cluster, so the visible set is
systematically the best member of each run. A chart showing the best of
every eight decisions and hiding the rest reads far better than the model
is - the same best-of-N selection error already corrected in the geometry
scan, the indicator tuner, the lag profile and the deploy gate, this time
on the display layer, where it is most likely to mislead the person
deciding whether to trade.

Fixed by neutralising dPrevSignal when NMS rejects, rather than adding a
"may trade" flag consulted at each read site: that leaves exactly ONE
definition of what the model decided this bar, so the arrow, the panel's
"Current signal", the confidence feeding sizing/SL/TP/trailing, the
refresh tally and the order itself cannot drift apart again.

Also reports the consequence instead of hiding it. Every OOS counter on
the era line still scores every directional call - a population ~8x larger
than what now trades - so the line carries a second figure:

  | TRADED (declustered) NN% on N calls (edge +Npp)

replaying the identical rule over pass 3 (which walks OOS bars oldest to
newest, the same order the live sweep sees). Its cursors are separate
members from the live ones so a training pass can never disturb the live
chart's declustering.

Deliberately NOT switched into selectionScore yet. Declustering cuts
coverage from ~64% of bars to ~8%, well under
MIN_COVERAGE_FRACTION_OF_BASE_RATE, which would make every checkpoint
undeployable overnight - the minRR collision and the recall-floor catch-22
twice over. The floor gets re-derived from these measurements first.

Compiles clean: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

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2026-08-09 10:22:31 -04:00
AnimateDread
1df305431d feat: gate deployment on the null of the MAXIMUM, not the per-era null
EDGE_MIN_SIGMAS is a PER-ERA test and the deployed model is the MAXIMUM
over every era a run ranks. A 2-sigma one-sided test passes on noise with
probability 0.0228 per era, so over N eras the chance at least one clears
it is 1-(1-0.0228)^N: 34% by era 18, 80% by era 70, 93% by era 112. The
gate was near-certain to open on a long run whatever the data held.

It did. HYBRID deployed 2026-08-08 at dir-precision 35.5% vs 34% chance -
+1.5pp, best of 112 eras whose per-era values wandered 30%..35.5%. At the
call counts these runs produce that is p_family 0.92..0.9999.

Every OTHER best-of-N decision here already carries this correction, and
every one REJECTS on this data: the barrier-geometry winner (null of the
maximum over 6, p=0.3902), the indicator tuner (Sidak, p=1.0000), the MI
lag profile (null of the maximum over 21 lags). The one decision that
ships a model to a live account had none.

BestCheckpointSurvivesSelection() re-tests the checkpoint that is about to
deploy:
    z        = (precision - chance)/SE,  SE = sqrt(p0(1-p0)/n)
    p_single = P(Z >= z)
    p_family = 1 - (1-p_single)^N
against DEPLOY_FAMILY_WISE_ALPHA. It uses the checkpoint's OWN
snapshotted precision/chance/call-count, not the latest era's, because
the model that ships is the one that has to clear the bar.

N counts CANDIDATE eras (coverage measurable, at least one directional
call) - an era that called nothing directional could never have become
the best, so counting it would make the gate stricter than the search
that actually happened.

Conservative on purpose: consecutive eras share OOS bars and differ by
one gradient step, so they are nowhere near N independent draws and the
true family-wise error is below this bound. This gate decides what trades
real money and the house posture is reject-unless-demonstrated.

Effect at 2900 directional calls / N=112: required edge goes 1.76pp ->
2.92pp. A real edge clears it; +1.5pp does not.

Applied to BOTH automatic paths - the plateau ladder's stage-3 deploy and
the m_trainingComplete assignment - which must stay identical or the flag
persisted into the .nnw disagrees with the decision to stop, and a reload
runs inference on a model the ladder refused.

NOT applied to the two operator paths (era-cap deploy, panel Deploy
button). Those stay the operator's call; ReportSelectionGateVerdict()
logs the verdict beside them so an authorised deploy can never later be
misread as a validated one.

NormalUpperTail() is A&S 26.2.17 (|err| < 7.5e-8), self-contained rather
than pulling in Math\Stat. Verified against reference values to 6dp:
Q(1.645)=0.049985, Q(1.96)=0.024998, Q(3.0)=0.001350. Its locals are
ntB1..ntB5 because AI\Network.mqh line 79 does "#define b1 AdamBeta1".

Compiles clean: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

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2026-08-08 18:01:04 -04:00
AnimateDread
bfc1da9de1 fix: the sequence models were reading the window backwards
BuildFeatureWindow() replaces eight hand-rolled copies of the same loop
and feeds the window OLDEST BAR FIRST. Every copy fed it newest-first,
because MQL5 timeseries indices run backwards and `r + b` with b ascending
walks into the past.

Harmless for PAI and CONV - a dense layer learns a weight per position
either way, a conv learns time-mirrored kernels. Not harmless for the
recurrent stacks:

  - LSTM_SeqStepForward reads `inputs + t*Iw`, so step t is block t.
  - It writes output[] only when t == steps-1: the visible output IS the
    last hidden state.
  - c_t = f*c_{t-1} + i*g decays toward the start of the sequence.
    lstm_seq_flowcheck.cpp measured block 0's influence on the output at
    1.2e-2 of block T-1's, at the shipped forget bias of 1.0.

So the bar being PREDICTED sat at the far end of the decay and the output
was handed to the OLDEST bar in the window - the exact inverse of what the
window is for. ~80x backwards on LSTM and HYBRID, on all three tiers
(OpenCL kernel, CPU DLL, pure-MQL5 inference), which is why it never
surfaced as a backend discrepancy.

This does not create edge - the MI diagnostics read at the noise floor
(p=0.4975) with a working positive control. It makes the one hypothesis
those diagnostics explicitly do NOT cover testable: they are marginal and
per-bar, and state they "cannot rule out one that only exists in
combination or across time". The sequence model is the instrument for
across-time structure and it has been crippled, so that hypothesis has
never been honestly tested.

Fingerprint gets an unconditional |WIN:2 - the vector keeps its shape and
its features, so a stale .nnw would load cleanly and run a model fitted to
one ordering against the other, silently. Re-keying every config is the
point, not collateral damage. FORCES A FULL RETRAIN.

Also: the now-relative bar caches are re-keyed on the two live paths.
EnsureBarCachesCapacity() was only ever called from training paths, but
once m_trainingComplete is set ScheduleTrainingIfNeeded() routes every bar
to RefreshConvergedSignal() and Train() is never re-entered - so nothing
cleared the feature cache again for the life of the process. A chart that
trained to convergence kept replaying the rows computed for the last
training era's bar grid: the live signal froze at its convergence-time
value, and OnlineLearnStep() backpropped those stale features against
freshly resolved labels. Backtests were never affected (an inference-only
process never allocates the arrays, so every read recomputes).

Compiles clean: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 18:28:44 -04:00
AnimateDread
5f647ba5db fix: improve error messages and suppress false sharing-violation logs
- BufferDouble: replace hardcoded "DirectML/CPU-DLL" with dynamic backend name
  and add buffer index/element count to all error prints for easier debugging.
- NetPersistence: distinguish missing file from transient lock by probing
  FileIsExist before logging, eliminating false "sharing violation" warnings
  when no saved model exists on first run.
2026-08-02 01:09:18 -04:00
AnimateDread
ceb6342dfd feat(ai): spread as a volatility-regime feature, and fix a stale-index cache in both new blocks
Adds spread/ATR and the spread change ratio as network inputs (EnableSpreadFeature,
default on). Spread is the one microstructure channel that is both FX-available and
genuinely historical in the Strategy Tester - "during testing, the spread is not modeled
but is taken from historical data" - so unlike swap, signed tick flow or depth of market it
is something a backtest can honestly validate.

What it encodes, stated precisely because the raw measurement overstates it.
research/test_spread.py found spr/atr the strongest single feature in this codebase, on 5
of 8 instrument/geometry cells at 2-4x any volume feature. But the barrier LABEL charges
the spread inside its own barriers, so a wide-spread bar is mechanically likelier to
resolve as a loss and the feature would partly be predicting its own cost model. Relabelling
at zero cost and re-measuring the identical feature showed 20-40% of it WAS that tautology
and the majority was not (XAUUSD retained 97%). What survives is a volatility-regime
reading: spread is near-fixed while ATR is not, so the ratio runs high exactly when
realised volatility is below its own ATR estimate, which genuinely predicts whether
ATR-scaled barriers get reached. It is UNSIGNED - Neutral-vs-directional only, never a side.

Also fixes a stale-index bug I introduced with the cross-asset panel and had just repeated
in the spread series. Both cached on length alone:

    if(m_crossAsset.Bars() >= bars) return true;

MQL5 series indices are relative to NOW, so one new closed candle shifts every index by
one. Keyed only on length, the panel keeps serving its index 0 as a bar that is no longer
the newest, and every cross-asset value is read one bar out of step with the price features
sitting beside it in the same vector - silently, with no error and no shape change. This is
the same class of defect as the dtStudied watermark behind the zero-direction backtests.
Both now carry a datetime anchor on m_Time.GetData(0), the same invalidation key the
label/feature bar caches already use.

And a performance fix that fell out of it: with correct invalidation the panel rebuilds on
every new bar, and RefreshConvergedSignal runs per bar - which in the tester would mean one
full multi-symbol resample per simulated bar at training depth. Inference only reads bars
0..m_historyBars-1 plus the panel's own slow window, so it now requests exactly that. The
cache check is >=, so a deeper panel left from training still satisfies it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 17:42:40 -04:00
AnimateDread
8710240cd5 fix(signals): revive a dead MA model, and demote Sanyaku from state to event
Two defects surfaced by research/test_classic.py, both verified fixed by re-running the
transcription against 178k bars of EURUSD H1.

CSignalMA model 1 could never fire. For any recursive average - and MA_TYPE_EMA is the
shipped default - MA(i) = a*Close(i) + (1-a)*MA(i+1), so

    DiffMA(i)      = a     * (Close(i) - MA(i+1))
    DiffCloseMA(i) = (1-a) * (Close(i) - MA(i+1))

are positive multiples of one quantity and always share a sign. Model 1 asks for a close
BELOW a RISING average, which is precisely the combination that identity forbids: 0.000%
of bars, either direction, any symbol. The MQL5 standard library this was ported from
defaults to MODE_SMA, where the two are merely correlated - the bug arrived with the EMA
default, not with the port. Reading the slope one bar back (DiffMAPrev) breaks the tie for
every MA type while keeping the model's stated meaning. Now fires on 7.92% of bars.

CSignalIchimoku model 11 fired on 27% of bars at weight 100. Sanyaku is three standing
STATES conjoined with no transition term, so it held across long stretches - and being
last in the if-chain at the top weight, the module's highest-conviction reading was also
its most common one, overwriting all eight event models below it on a quarter of all bars.
The old comment rejected an event form because "demanding all three flip on the same bar
would fire almost never" - true, but that is not the alternative. Kouten is the TURN: the
ALIGNMENT transitions, and only one role need change for it to. Testing !Sanyaku(idx+1)
fires once per aligned stretch. Now 2.17%, in line with Kumo breakout (2.4%) and the
strong TK cross (1.1%). DataReady() extended one bar deeper to cover the lookback.

Neither pattern showed edge before or after; this is about the models meaning what they
say and the vote not being dominated by a constant.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 17:14:34 -04:00
AnimateDread
a77ff64b13 fix(deinit): a full model write was running ahead of the cheap cleanup
"Abnormal termination" is back, and this time it is not the arrows. The
timing names the culprit exactly:

  16:02:31.547  OnDeinit: shutting down
  16:02:36.003  Abnormal termination          <- 4.46 s, MetaTrader gave up
  16:02:36.226  chart signals - persisted     <- cleanup finished 0.2 s LATE

OnDeinit called StopTraining() BEFORE the chart cleanup. StopTraining()
finalises an in-flight run, and FinalizeTrainRun() restores the best
checkpoint and then persists it - a full ~1MB model write per signal. So
the expensive step ran ahead of the cheap bounded one, which is precisely
the inversion the shutdown ordering exists to prevent. The previous fix
put PersistWeightsOnShutdown last and missed that StopTraining smuggles a
second save in at the front.

Two changes:

Cleanup now runs FIRST, then StopTraining, then the weight save. The
visible teardown is cheap and bounded, so it always completes even when
everything after it is killed.

And the deploy-persist inside FinalizeTrainRun is suppressed during
shutdown. RestoreWeights() is an in-MEMORY swap, so the best checkpoint
is already the live net by that line, and PersistWeightsOnShutdown writes
exactly those weights moments later. The old path wrote the same model
twice per signal - eight full writes across four charts - for no benefit.
A user-pressed Stop still persists immediately, because nothing else
would.

Compiles 0 errors / 0 warnings. Build tag deinit-order-v2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 16:06:40 -04:00
AnimateDread
018afb1ba9 fix(autotune): MI scorer read an array nobody filled; add the permutation floor
THE TUNER WAS A SILENT NO-OP. Every chart logged

  auto-tune complete - 17 candidate settings scored in ~139s,
  feature/label mutual information 0.0000 -> 0.0000 nats (no improvement)

0.0000 is not a weak result, it is a broken measurement: finite-sample MI
is biased UPWARD, so even pure noise scores above zero. Cause:
ScoreCurrentParamsByMI called BufferTempDataCompute(), which APPENDS the
bar's features to TempData and never touches m_featureCache - only the
caching wrapper BufferTempData() writes that array. It then read
m_featureCache, which ReInitADIndicators had just invalidated. Every
column came back constant, FeatureColumnMI returned 0 for all of them,
and all 17 candidates tied at exactly zero. 139 s per chart to return the
settings it started with.

Now reads the values back out of TempData, where they actually land. And
an exactly-zero best score is called out as a fault rather than reported
as "no improvement", because that is what it is.

ADDED: a PERMUTATION BASELINE, which is the diagnostic this project has
been missing. MI's finite-sample bias is ~(bins-1)(classes-1)/(2n) nats -
at these sample sizes the same order as any real edge in this domain - so
a raw MI figure is uninterpretable on its own. Shuffling the labels
destroys every genuine association while leaving sample size, binning and
class proportions intact, so the score it produces IS this dataset's
noise floor, measured rather than approximated. The log now reads

  feature/label information - X nats against a shuffled-label floor of Y

and says outright whether the features carry usable information about the
target. It needs no training, no topology and no convergence, so unlike
every accuracy number in this codebase it cannot be confounded by an
optimizer or an objective. If the score sits on the floor, no change of
architecture can help - which is the question the last three days of
zero-edge results have been circling.

DEPLOY FLOOR: `dirPrecPct > chancePrecPct` passed anything above chance by
any amount. At ~11,000 directional calls the standard error of the
precision estimate is ~0.4pp, so that gate was accepting sub-one-sigma
noise - the perceptron deployed at edge +0pp on 2026-08-01. Now requires
EDGE_MIN_SIGMAS (2.0) standard errors above chance, computed from the
actual call count, so the bar scales with the evidence instead of needing
a hand-picked constant.

Recorded with it, because it is why chance is the right reference at all:
under a driftless random walk P(touch +k*ATR before -m*ATR) = m/(m+k),
and the break-even win rate for a k:m reward:risk trade is ALSO m/(m+k).
The label's own base rate IS the break-even rate, at every SL/TP setting.
So "beats chance" and "is profitable" are the same test, and no choice of
SL/TP can manufacture an edge - only prediction can.

Both builds compile 0 errors / 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 13:05:50 -04:00
AnimateDread
d7eea325fb refactor(ai): extract Layer.mqh and deduplicate AI config
- Moves CLayer neuron construction to AI/Impl/Layer.mqh to keep Network.mqh clean
- Unifies four previously duplicated architecture initialisation blocks (MLP/CONV/LSTM/HYBRID) into a single shared function
- Eliminates risk of behavioural drift where one architecture missed a setter, causing mismatched feature sets or targets
2026-08-01 11:27:28 -04:00
AnimateDread
9756e2b64f fix(deinit): O(n^2) arrow prune blew the shutdown budget and littered 3 charts
Reported as "the perceptron correctly cleaned its chart on deinit, the
other 3 did not, abnormal termination". Measured from the 2026-08-01 log,
time from "OnDeinit: shutting down" to MetaTrader force-terminating:

  PAI     3.75 s  -> survived, chart cleaned
  CONV    4.71 s  -> Abnormal termination
  LSTM    4.28 s  -> Abnormal termination
  HYBRID  4.16 s  -> Abnormal termination

In all four the last line printed is the inference census, which is the
end of StopTraining() - so the overrun is inside ShutdownChartCleanup(),
i.e. between saving the arrows and purging them.

The cost is the prune loop at the end of SaveChartSignals():

    for(int i = 0; i < prunedCount; i++)
       ObjectDelete(0, SIG_ARROW_PREFIX + TimeToString(pruned[i]));

ObjectDelete is O(objects) on a crowded chart, so this is O(n^2). It was
harmless while the model called a direction on ~6% of bars. After the
triple-barrier relabel the models call on 83-94% of bars, the chart
carries many thousands of arrows, and the loop overran MetaTrader's
OnDeinit budget - so PurgeChart() never ran and the arrows stayed on
screen. The slow tidy-up starved the fast one.

The work was pure waste at that moment: ShutdownChartCleanup purges every
arrow with a single bulk ObjectsDeleteAll immediately afterwards.
Deleting them one at a time first has no effect except to prevent the
bulk delete from happening at all.

SaveChartSignals takes a pruneChartObjects flag, and the two shutdown
call sites pass false:

 - ShutdownChartCleanup passes `preserveChartArrows`, which is exactly
   right: prune when the arrows are STAYING (chart and sidecar must
   agree), skip when they are about to be purged wholesale.
 - FinalizeTrainRun passes !m_trainingStopRequested. Removing a chart
   MID-ERA reaches StopTraining -> FinalizeTrainRun, which took the
   expensive path a second time, even earlier, before anything had been
   cleared. Same defect one call site up; it only escaped notice because
   the observed removals happened to land between eras.

Normal convergence and the live per-era path are unchanged - they still
prune, which is what keeps the chart object count bounded.

This also restores the invariant the 2026-07 fix intended ("chart cleanup
runs BEFORE the heavy weight save so a stall cannot leave the chart
littered"). That fix moved cleanup ahead of the WEIGHT save, but cleanup
had since grown its own slow step ahead of its own fast one.

Both builds compile 0 errors / 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 10:38:36 -04:00
AnimateDread
6db0519472 perf(autotune): replace the genetic search with a filter score - hours to seconds
MEASURED COST OF THE GA, which is what retired it. Per generation:
  rung 0: 8 cand x 3 seeds x  3 eras =  72 eras
  rung 1: 4 cand x 3 seeds x  8 eras =  96
  rung 2: 2 cand x 3 seeds x 20 eras = 120
  = 288 eras/generation x 4 generations = 1152 eras BEFORE the winner's
real training began. Against the observed era times on SP500 H1:

  PAI     29.1 s/era  ->   9.3 h   (matches the observed 00:37 -> 09:22)
  CONV    41.3 s/era  ->  13.2 h
  LSTM   150.4 s/era  ->  48.1 h
  HYBRID 154.6 s/era  ->  49.5 h

Two days to tune is not a first-run experience, and it is the phase in
which the panel goes quiet, which is what made it look like a hang.

It also bought nothing. The space is 90 points (10 MA periods x 9 MA
types), so 1152 evaluations revisited each point ~13 times; and rungs of
3 and 8 eras cannot separate two MA periods at all. The 2026-08-01 run
proves it: every finalist scored 25.0-25.9% balanced accuracy - below the
33.3% one-class floor, i.e. indistinguishable noise - and the search then
"deployed the winner" of that.

THE ERROR WAS THE SCORING FUNCTION, not its constants. Using a full
training run to choose a feature's period is a wrapper method paying
wrapper prices for a decision that does not need one. The reference book
does not do this: ch. 3.3 selects inputs by measuring each candidate
indicator's CORRELATION with the target and dropping the ones with none,
with no network involved.

So: rank candidates by the MUTUAL INFORMATION between the resulting
feature vector and the triple-barrier label. MI rather than correlation
because the label is 3-class categorical and the features are not
monotonically related to it. Equal-FREQUENCY binning (rank-based),
because these features are ATR-normalised and heavy-tailed - fixed-width
bins put nearly everything in one bucket and report ~0 information for a
genuinely useful feature.

Scoring is arithmetic over the feature cache, so it costs seconds and its
cost is independent of topology: LSTM now tunes as fast as the MLP.
Coordinate sweep, not product sweep - cost is the SUM of per-parameter
candidate counts, so enabling every indicator stays affordable - with a
second pass that breaks early once nothing moves.

Sampling is IS-ONLY. Letting the OOS window influence which indicator
settings ship would mean the holdout had been used for selection and had
stopped being a holdout.

HONEST LIMIT, recorded because it is the price: MI is marginal, so a
parameter that only pays off in combination with another can be missed
(Guyon & Elisseeff 2003, filter vs wrapper). Given the wrapper it
replaces was ranking pure noise at 48 h a run, this is strictly better.

Deleted with it: GaRungEras/GaExtract/GaStore/GaMutate/GaRandomCandidate/
GaBlockCrossover/GaSortAliveByScoreDesc/GaBreedNextGeneration, 14 m_ga*
members, the GA_*/TUNE_POP_* constants, and ComputeTuneTrialBudget.

AND m_evalMode/m_evalEraBudget, because nothing set them any more - 28
read sites all permanently inert. That is not a tidy-up: the `if
(!m_evalMode)` guard on UpdateClassPriors is exactly what silently
disabled the imbalance correction for entire runs two commits ago. Dead
machinery that still reads like live machinery is this codebase's most
expensive recurring bug, and leaving 28 more instances of it would have
been indefensible.

The panel's tuning-progress state goes too - tuning no longer takes long
enough to need one.

Both builds compile 0 errors / 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 10:29:31 -04:00
AnimateDread
3bae2f9254 fix: the imbalance correction never ran during the auto-tune search
Neutral collapse on all four topologies by era 5 with a 2:6 barrier
(recall Buy 0% / Sell 0% / Neutral 100%), and the panel stuck on
"measuring...". One root cause, and it was not the barrier.

The labels were fine: Buy 25.4% / Sell 22.0% / Neutral 52.5%, which is
exactly gambler's ruin for m=2,k=6 (2/8 = 25% per side), with only 0.1%
of Neutral coming from the vertical barrier - so the new m*k horizon
scaling is right, arguably generous.

What was broken: Train()'s era-start block wrapped UpdateClassPriors() in
`if(!m_evalMode)`. The auto-tune GA scores every candidate in eval mode,
and AutoTuneIndicators ships ON, so on a default configuration EVERY era
of the search ran with unmeasured priors. ApplyLogitAdjustment() requires
measured priors; without them it calls ClearLogitAdjustment() and returns.

So the entire search trained under PLAIN cross-entropy. With a 52.5%
majority class the optimum of plain CE is "always predict Neutral", and
that is precisely what all four models found. The panel followed: its
counters only advance on bars the model CALLED Buy or Sell, so a
collapsed model leaves them at zero and the line reads "measuring..."
forever.

This was latent, not new. It has been true for every auto-tuned run, but
it was invisible while the labels were near-balanced - last night's
accidental 1:1 barrier gave 43/40/17, where plain CE has no majority to
collapse into. Widening the stop to 2*ATR (correctly - 1*ATR is too tight
to survive noise) moved Neutral to the majority and exposed it.

The guard's stated fear cannot happen. These priors are measured from the
LABEL distribution, and the tuner only perturbs indicator periods
(MA/RSI/MACD/Ichimoku/AD). The barrier label depends on ATR, SL_Mode and
TP_Mode - none of which the search touches - so every candidate sees
byte-identical labels and identical priors. There is nothing to
contaminate. What the guard actually protected was the .stats write, and
that is gated separately: eval candidates never checkpoint and never
persist.

Also, because this is the THIRD quiet no-op to cost a run in this
codebase (after the fictional oversampling log line and the shadow-blend
skip):

- ApplyLogitAdjustment() now WARNS when it declines to install, instead
  of silently clearing. A mechanism that cannot announce it is not
  running is indistinguishable from one that is.
- The panel distinguishes "measuring..." (before era 1, nothing scored
  yet - an honest warm-up) from "no directional calls yet" (eras trained,
  zero calls - a finding, not a wait).

Both builds compile 0 errors / 0 warnings. No retrain forced by this
commit itself, but the collapsed models must be discarded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 00:46:24 -04:00
AnimateDread
25813523d3 fix: refuse invalid SL/TP, fix the unreachable deploy floor, scale the horizon
Three defects found by reading the 2026-08-01 training logs, all of which
only became visible because the relabel made the numbers mean something.

1. A STALE ENUM TRAINED FOUR MODELS ON THE WRONG TARGET.

   `OnInit: trade settings snapshot - SL_Mode=1 TP_Mode=-101`

   -101 was TP_PREV_SWING, deleted from TAKE_PROFIT_MODE on 2026-07-31 in
   7eb48f5. MetaTrader does not validate a saved enum input against the
   enum's current members, so charts saved before that kept the old
   integer. BarrierMultiples()'s `if(tpMult <= 0.0) tpMult = slMult;`
   then quietly turned it into a 1:1 barrier, and all four topologies
   trained ~250 eras against a strategy nobody selected - while the log
   reported "target 1.00*ATR" as though it were configured.

   Since the relabel these two inputs ARE the label definition, so this
   is not a bad trade setting, it is a wrong dataset. ValidateBarrier-
   Inputs() now refuses to start (INIT_FAILED + Alert + an explicit fix)
   on any value that is not an enum member. Members are enumerated rather
   than range-checked because both enums are sparse and carry negative
   sentinels, so no min/max test can tell a legal value from a deleted
   one - which is the entire failure mode. The fallback survives as
   belt-and-braces but now announces itself: a fallback that cannot say
   it fired is indistinguishable from correct behaviour.

2. THE DEPLOYABILITY FLOOR BECAME MATHEMATICALLY UNREACHABLE.

   `tradeableOK` required `dirPrecPct >= baseRatePct`, where baseRatePct
   is Buy+Sell as a share of all bars. At the old exact-pivot target that
   was ~6%, so "beat the base rate" read as "beat chance" and the test
   looked sound. Triple-barrier labels put it at ~83%, so the gate now
   demanded 83% directional precision - impossible by construction.
   Observed live: all four topologies cycling "PLATEAU stage 3 ... nothing
   safe to deploy" at a perfectly healthy 43-45% precision, with no
   checkpoint able to ship however good it got.

   Replaced with ZERO-SKILL precision, max(Buy,Sell)/allBars: exactly the
   score of the degenerate always-call-one-direction model this floor
   exists to reject. Correct at any base rate - ~43% on the current
   labels, ~3% on the old rare-pivot ones. The era line now prints
   "(chance N%, edge +Mpp)" beside the selection score, because 44%
   precision is excellent against a 3% chance level and worthless against
   a 43% one, and reading the first as the second is what made tonight's
   run look better than it was.

3. THE HORIZON IGNORED THE BARRIER GEOMETRY.

   ComputeBarrierHorizonBars() returned the median ZigZag leg, which
   measures how long a ~1 ATR move takes and says nothing about how long
   the CONFIGURED barrier needs. First-passage time out of [-m,+k] scales
   with m*k, so a 1:3 barrier takes ~3x as long as 1:1; the unscaled
   horizon would have timed out most 1:3 trades and pushed Neutral
   straight back up, re-creating the imbalance the relabel removes.
   Now multiplied by slMult*tpMult, calibrated against a real measurement
   rather than assumed: the accidental 1:1 run resolved at horizon 12 with
   only 16.7% timeouts, so the swing median is the right scale at m*k=1.

   Verifiable, not just asserted: the prebuild now counts barriers that
   ended on the VERTICAL barrier and reports them as a share of Neutral.
   Neutral conflates "timed out" with "stopped out" and only the first
   indicts the horizon.

Both builds compile 0 errors / 0 warnings. Forces a retrain - correcting
TP_Mode re-keys the fingerprint (|TB:1:-101 -> |TB:1:3), which is right:
no existing model was trained on the intended target.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-01 00:30:49 -04:00
AnimateDread
b4a704d309 feat(ai): triple-barrier labels replace exact-pivot ZigZag targets
The 31:1 class imbalance was self-inflicted by the TARGET, not a property
of the market. Labelling only the exact bar where a ZigZag pivot confirms
gave Buy 1164 / Sell 1164 / Neutral 35841, and every correction mechanism
this codebase accumulated sits downstream of that one choice: the
logit-adjusted loss and its range cap, the prior EMA, the +-3.0 output-bias
seed, balanced-accuracy-then-precision selection with its coverage floor,
the recall floor and its catch-22, the alternation gate, NMS, and the four
oversampling designs that collapsed before them.

The reference this engine is built on (references/neuronetworksbook.pdf
ch. 3.1/3.3) also uses ZigZag, but targets the DIRECTION TO THE NEXT
EXTREMUM on every bar - ~50/50 by construction, with no imbalance to
correct at all. It never had this problem because it never asked "is this
the pivot bar".

Labels are now the triple barrier (Lopez de Prado ch. 3), using the EA's
OWN SL_Mode/TP_Mode: does a trade opened at this bar's close reach its
target before its stop, within a horizon. Buy = long resolves, Sell =
short resolves, Neutral = neither. Consequences:

- dir-precision in the era line stops being a proxy and becomes the win
  rate of the strategy under its own exit rules.
- Expected balance ~25/25/50 at the shipped 1:3 (gambler's ruin), i.e.
  ~2:1 instead of 31:1. Measured and logged at the end of the prebuild.
- Spread is charged on both legs, so it is a NET win rate.
- Intrabar ambiguity resolves to the STOP. OHLC cannot order two touches
  inside one bar and the optimistic reading is how a backtested edge
  becomes a live loss.

ZigZag stays as input features (EnableSwingContext) and now also supplies
the vertical barrier: the horizon is the median confirmed leg length,
snapped to a coarse ladder. Derived, not configured, and deliberately kept
out of the filename fingerprint - a filename keyed on a measured quantity
orphans a trained model the moment the measurement moves.

Removed, because the premise died with the old target:
- the alternation gate. Correct for pivot labels (a ZigZag cannot emit two
  same-type pivots in a row, so a repeat was provably a false fire), and
  wrong for barrier labels, which answer each bar independently. It also
  took its worst consequence with it: a one-sided model previously got ONE
  trade per backtest, a hard blocker on marketplace validation.
- SignalClusterWindow now defaults off - it de-duplicated repeats that are
  now real trades. Kept as an opt-in display control.
- LABEL_WINDOW_BARS, the pivot-widening pass, ConfirmedZigZagLabel.
- the era-0 output-bias seed now needs a genuinely dominant class (0.70)
  rather than 0.40; at ~50% Neutral a +-3.0 seed is a distortion, not a
  correction.

Also fixed, both found while wiring the above:

1. RefreshConvergedSignal sized its buffers from a date delta
   (Bars(sym, period, dtStudied, TimeCurrent())). dtStudied is a training
   watermark; in the tester it is loaded from a live-chart save AHEAD of
   the simulated date, so the interval inverted, Bars() returned ~0, and
   the buffer came out at exactly m_historyBars - deep enough for the OHLC
   window and far too shallow for the Donchian-50 / 20-bar-return / SMA
   extension behind it. Inference silently computed DIFFERENT features
   from the ones training learned on, live as well as in the tester. Now
   sized from what the feature builder actually needs.

2. The barrier horizon is resolved on the deployed path too. A deployed
   model never enters Train(), so it never reached the prebuild, and
   OnlineLearnStep reads the horizon as its confirmation delay - left at
   the fallback it would have backpropped bars whose barriers had not
   resolved. Silent lookahead in the one place that writes to a live model.

SL_Mode/TP_Mode join the weights fingerprint: they define the labels now,
so a model trained at 1:3 must never be silently reused at 1:1. This
re-keys every pre-existing model by design - none were trained on this task.

Inference census extended with the vote gate. LongCondition/ShortCondition
open with a readiness check the refresh counters never see; in the tester it
reduces to "the seeded _optcache.nnw must have LOADED", and if it did not,
every vote is hard-zeroed while the model still answers Buy. The old three
counters would have read that as "the model says Neutral" - false, and a
completely different fix. This is the leading candidate for the
zero-direction backtest and the census can now name it in one run.

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2026-07-31 20:39:49 -04:00
AnimateDread
251e9711dd diag: report |dW| alongside d|W| per layer, and drop two stale log claims
The per-era `dW/W` line measured the change in each layer's weight NORM.
That statistic cannot separate "this layer only shrank under weight decay"
from "this layer moved somewhere useful" - a rotation at constant norm and
pure decay can print the same number.

It matters right now: on SP500 H1 the LSTM layers print a near-constant
~1.05%/era that exactly equals their geometric norm decay over 318 eras
(HYB lstm2 12.966 -> 0.755, monotone, never once up), while a sibling conv
oscillates around a much slower drift. Norm-change can only hint at that.

Now prints norm(d|W|% / |dW|%). Under decay alone the two are equal; any
gradient component adds in quadrature to the second, so a learning layer
shows the second clearly larger. Diagnostic only - no training behaviour
changes, fingerprint untouched.

Also removes two log lines that described machinery deleted in 397b0ea:
the plateau ladder's terminal stage still claimed "after a warm restart
AND full gamma anneal", and the CONVERGED line "across a warm restart and
a full focal-gamma anneal". Both printed on every CONV/LSTM convergence
today. Same failure mode as the oversampling line 397b0ea fixed: a log
that describes what an older version would have done is confirming
evidence for a false hypothesis.

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2026-07-31 14:33:29 -04:00
AnimateDread
397b0eac1f refactor(ai): nine class-imbalance inputs down to two
The imbalance section offered nine controls for one job. Audited against the
code, five of them did not do what their names said at the shipped defaults:

  AILogitPriorStrength  DEAD - Inference.mqh's post-hoc prior early-returns
                        whenever the adjusted loss is on, which is default.
  OversampleParity      DEAD in training - Training.mqh gated the replay loop
                        on !useLogitAdjustedLoss (correctly, citing Buda et
                        al. 2018). Live only in the online-learning path.
  EnableMinorityReplay  DEAD as replay. It survived ONLY as a focal-gamma
                        damper - "replay minority bars through pass-2
                        oversampling" was a focal-loss switch.
  ConstrainReplay       DEAD as a cap; it only chose damper 0.125 vs 0.25.
  UseStaticPrior        An exact duplicate of FreezePriorCalibration - the two
                        were OR'd together in the single place either is read.

So they were not five mechanisms fighting; they were one mechanism plus eight
knobs that mostly described machinery that no longer ran. That is worse than
a real conflict, because the log agreed with the names: the label-cache line
printed "reps up to 28x (90% parity) (seeding era 0's class-balance
oversampling)" on every run, describing an oversampling pass that had been
switched off. It is fixed here too - it cost this session a wrong diagnosis.

The one genuine redundancy was focal loss, running at gamma*0.125 alongside
the adjusted loss: two corrections on the same axis, the exact stacking
failure this file already cited Buda et al. for in two other places, damped
by a replay flag whose replay path was itself dead. Removed rather than
re-tuned. The plateau ladder is unaffected - its escape is the learning-rate
warm restart; the gamma anneal beside it only ever stepped toward zero.

WHAT REMAINS is logit-adjusted loss (Menon et al. 2021) plus a prior freeze:

  LogitAdjustTau         0 = off; replaces the separate EnableLogitAdjusted-
                         Loss boolean, since a strength dial where 0 already
                         means off does not need an on/off switch beside it.
  FreezePriorCalibration unchanged.

It is the only one of the six corrections with a consistency guarantee, and
it is consistent for exactly the balanced-error metric checkpoint selection
already ranks on - so the loss and the deploy decision optimize one thing.

The online continual-learning path keeps its own alpha-balanced focal weight,
now as constants pinned to the removed inputs' shipped defaults, so its
behaviour is unchanged. It legitimately needs its own correction:
ApplyLogitAdjustment() only runs inside a training run, so a deployed model
that was reloaded carries no logit offsets and would otherwise stream 31:1
data into itself uncorrected.

The weights-filename fingerprint is BYTE-IDENTICAL. The focal slot was a
double fed to a %d conversion and had always emitted a literal 0; the |MR:
segment is written as the constant its shipped defaults produced. Dropping
either would have re-keyed every model and forced a from-scratch retrain of
the one topology currently converged and trading.

Also removed as orphans: FOCAL_GAMMA_PRESET, MAX_OVERSAMPLE_REPLICAS,
OVERSAMPLE_PARITY_FRACTION, PLATEAU_GAMMA_STEP, and the now-unreachable
"neutralized by prior correction" diagnostic.

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2026-07-31 11:46:57 -04:00
AnimateDread
18f63c7a52 feat(ai): report per-layer weight movement each era
Adds "dW/W dense1:0.412(0.31%) conv1:0.088(0.000%) ..." to the era line:
each layer's weight L2 norm and its relative change since the previous era.

Why: a frozen stage and a badly-suited architecture look identical from the
outside. Both give a flat metric and a retreat to the majority class, and
neither the loss, the accuracy nor the per-class recall can tell them apart.
This session cost two full retrain cycles guessing between them - a forget-
gate bias (a real bug, measured, but not the cause of the observed failure)
and a conv receptive field (which turned out to be a regression, not a fix).

A layer sitting at ~0.000% era after era while its neighbours move is
receiving no gradient, and no amount of retraining or hyperparameter work
will change that. A net where every layer moves and the output still
collapses is a genuine architecture or objective problem. The distinction is
one glance at the log instead of a redeploy-and-wait cycle per hypothesis.

Costs one host-side buffer read per layer per era, off the training path.

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2026-07-31 07:10:09 -04:00
AnimateDread
4eae763849 fix(ai): report the metric actually compared; surface the derived front-end
The plateau/regression line printed balancedOosEra as the current value while
comparing against m_bestBalancedOos, which has held the SELECTION score since
a142749. Two different metrics in one sentence, so HYBRID logged "regressed
from best 14.4% to 34.0%" a hundred times - a regression to a higher number,
which is not a thing. The comparison itself was right (selectionScore, coverage
weighted, genuinely below best); only the print was wrong. 1039ad9 relabelled
these strings but missed that this site passes the wrong variable.

The startup config line had the same shape of gap: it printed the dense taper
and called itself self-verifying while the DERIVED conv and recurrent stages -
the ones that dominate CONV/LSTM/HYBRID - were invisible. It now shows the
width into and out of each front-end stage, and flags the case where the dense
stack is wider than the vector reaching it (a linear fan-out cannot recover
what the bottleneck discarded; it only adds parameters). Flagged, not silently
reshaped - that would re-key trained topologies mid-comparison.

UsesConvStage()/UsesLstmStage() replace HasConvBeforeLstm() as the primitive,
so each subclass declares its composition once and both the capacity budget and
the config line derive from it rather than restating it.

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2026-07-30 15:20:30 -04:00
AnimateDread
1039ad936f feat(ai): measure precision per confidence tier; fix stale metric labels
Two things the 2026-07-30 run exposed.

1. Every user-facing message still called the selection metric "balanced
   accuracy". It has ranked on directional precision since a142749, so
   "CONVERGED ... balanced accuracy 32.5%" was reporting a 32.5%
   PRECISION as if it were macro-recall, while the same era logged an
   actual balanced accuracy of 49%. Two different numbers under one
   name, in the line that announces a deploy. Relabelled at every site,
   including the stage-3 refusal, which still described the per-class
   recall floor that stopped being the gate.

2. Precision is now bucketed by confidence tier and logged per era,
   both per-tier and cumulatively from each tier upward:

     | tier prec T0:19%(410)[>=28%/1204] T1:31%(520)[>=34%/794] ...

   The per-tier number says whether confidence is calibrated to
   correctness at all; if it does not rise T0->T3, raising the floor
   buys nothing and that is the finding. The ">=" number is what a floor
   would actually deliver, with its fire count, so the coverage cost is
   visible in the same line. Tier weights are 25/50/75/100, so for an
   AI-only config Min_Vote_Open maps straight across: 50 = ">=T1",
   75 = ">=T2", 100 = ">=T3".

Bucketing happens at the existing live-fired accounting site, so it
measures exactly the population that trades - not the raw argmax.

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2026-07-30 11:47:15 -04:00
AnimateDread
ce90fc74b6 fix(ai): discount selection precision by coverage shortfall
The 2026-07-30 run caught a bug in the precision-led selection metric
within 8 eras. HYBRID made exactly ONE directional call in era 7, got it
right, scored 100% precision, and locked that in as best-ever. Nothing
can beat 100%, so the checkpoint froze on a single sample and the run
could only burn to the era cap deploying it.

The coverage floor already existed and already blocked that era from
being DEPLOYABLE - but the ranking ignored coverage entirely whenever no
era had qualified yet, which is precisely the phase where the ranking is
the only thing steering the run.

Precision is now discounted by coverage/floor, capped at 1.0. Continuous
rather than a threshold: an era at half the floor scores half its
precision, so coverage and precision both improve rank and neither can
be traded away. Above the floor the credit saturates, so ranking among
genuinely deployable eras is unchanged pure precision.

Also: the startup config line printed "tau 1.00" while every chart was
actually running the capped 0.35 - the effective value depends on the
measured class priors and is not knowable at init. Now reads
"1.00 requested"; ApplyLogitAdjustment still logs the real figure.

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2026-07-30 10:40:36 -04:00
AnimateDread
45b35b3d1d feat(nn): derive dense depth, train on all history, pin the shape in .cfg
Completes the derived-topology work. Three inputs removed.

AIType loses its depth suffix - AI_MLP/AI_CONV/AI_LSTM/AI_HYBRID, five
entries instead of eight. Depth is now derived from the two endpoints
the taper already has to connect (derived first-layer width, output-tied
final width) at a 2x per-layer compression target, clamped [2..5].
Asking a user to pick a layer count while the code derives the widths
those layers taper between was asking for half a decision: at 64 units
tapering to 12, four layers compress by 1.4x per step and five by 1.3x,
so the extra depth bought no abstraction. On the shipping H1/10y default
the derivation lands on 3 layers - the depth that actually won Run 2.

StudyPeriods removed. There is no case for training on less data than
the broker provides at a ~6% directional base rate; the honest
generalization read comes from the OOS holdout, not from withholding
history. Training now starts at the earliest available bar, floored by
MinTrainYear, which answers a different question (excluding dubious
pre-history) and stays.

That required closing the hazard the old code documented: the capacity
budget now MEASURES the symbol's real bar count, and a topology derived
from a measurement would widen as history downloads. Both ends are now
pinned. Every derived value left the weights-filename fingerprint -
keying a filename on a measured quantity means the EA looks for a file
that does not exist, starts from era 0 and orphans a trained model,
silently, because a missing cache is the normal first-run state. The
shape lives in the .cfg instead, where LoadAndCompare now ADOPTS the
four derived fields rather than diffing them; a mismatch there would
discard a fully-trained model over nothing the user did. Two fields
appended to the .cfg for the conv/LSTM stages, length-guarded on read
because FileReadInteger past EOF returns 0 with no error.

ForceHiddenLayers, a compile-time constant like DebuggingMode, pins
depth for diagnostic comparisons. It joins the fingerprint only when
non-zero, so forced depths get their own files - sequential comparisons
only, not simultaneous from one .ex5.

Derived shape, H1/10y defaults (21 features x 20 bars): first layer 64,
3 dense, 8 conv filters, 16 LSTM units. The LSTM block halves from
~58k to ~28k weights.

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2026-07-30 10:05:40 -04:00
AnimateDread
ebf2e73667 fix(ui): unique chart tag, product-grade panel, responsive under load
Three separate reports from one deploy.

1. CONV, LSTM and HYBRID all came back tagged [4109]. The weights
   fingerprint omits the topology type on purpose - the file path already
   separates it (State\CONV\ vs State\LSTM\ vs State\HYB\) and hashing a
   value that is constant within a folder buys nothing while re-keying
   every trained model into a forced retrain. So the files were never at
   risk, but the tag could not do its one job. Prefixing the short id
   makes it unique on the display side only; the hex half still greps
   straight to the .nnw inside the folder the prefix names.

2. The default panel read like a training console. Six lines down to
   three, each answering a question an owner actually has. The deploy
   internals (best score, eras-since-best, ladder stage) were developer
   diagnostics describing a recall floor that no longer decides anything,
   and were already in the era-end journal line. In-sample accuracy left
   the panel too: it grades the model on bars it trained on, so it always
   flatters, and showing it beside the honest number invites reading the
   wrong one. New compile-time DebuggingMode constant - deliberately not
   an input - carries the IS/OOS pair and the resolved model path into
   the journal instead. No extra Inputs row, no extra Market description
   line, no user-reachable firehose.

3. Panel drag and buttons stuttered under training load, exactly as the
   2026-07-26 note raising the chunk budget to 200ms warned they might.
   Backed off to the documented 120ms - worst-case click latency is that
   budget - and the derived topology (~292k weights to ~29k) makes the
   throughput this costs far cheaper than when that note was written.
   Also halved the panel redraw rate to 2.5 Hz: ChartRedraw repaints the
   whole chart, so its cost scales with accumulated arrows, and 5 Hz was
   the larger half of the stutter. Era-end still force-refreshes.

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2026-07-30 09:05:58 -04:00
AnimateDread
a142749a87 feat(ai): rank checkpoints on directional precision, not balanced accuracy
Balanced accuracy is maximized by exactly the model this system must never
deploy. Measured frontier at fixed signal strength, base rate 6.1%:

    tau 0.00 -> calls  0.2% of bars at 27.3% precision, balanced 34.0%
    tau 0.35 -> calls  2.0% of bars at 15.5% precision, balanced 36.3%
    tau 1.00 -> calls 49.6% of bars at  6.4% precision, balanced 53.5%

It rises monotonically as the model calls MORE and is right LESS, because
two of its three terms are directional recalls that a call-everything model
drives to ~95%, while the Neutral term it sacrifices counts for only a
third. The 2026-07-29 run landed exactly there: balanced 58-64% while
calling a direction on ~100% of bars at a 5-7% win rate against a ~6% base
rate. Only the per-class recall floor stopped those deploying - a guard
doing the job the objective should have been doing - and that same guard
also rejected the genuinely useful sparse-but-precise checkpoints.

Ranking is now DIRECTIONAL PRECISION: of the bars called Buy or Sell, how
many were right. That is what a trading edge is. Two anti-degenerate floors
bracket it, since precision alone is trivially maximized by calling almost
nothing: coverage must reach a fraction of the true directional base rate
(derived, not configured - it adapts to any symbol/timeframe/label rule),
and precision must at least beat that base rate.

Against the same frontier the deploy order inverts from
  tau 1.00 > 0.50 > 0.35 > 0.15   (old, worst model first)
to
  tau 0.35 > 0.50 > 1.00          (new; 0.00/0.15 rejected on coverage)

Balanced accuracy is kept in the log as a diagnostic and marked as such, so
a run where the two disagree - the signature of an over-caller - is visible
at a glance. MinRecall no longer decides what ships; it now only drives the
diagnostic recall line and is a candidate for removal.

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2026-07-30 07:13:08 -04:00
AnimateDread
f2ec1edf84 feat(ai): logit-adjusted loss, replacing oversampling and the post-hoc prior
Menon et al. 2021 (ICLR), "Long-tail learning via logit adjustment": add
tau*log(prior_c) to each class logit inside the training gradient. Softmax
CE on adjusted logits is consistent for BALANCED error - the metric
checkpoint selection already ranks on - so the loss and the deploy decision
finally optimize the same thing.

The engine already computed a true softmax + categorical-CE gradient and
wrote it over the per-neuron sigmoid delta, so this is an offset added to
three logits in the two places that gradient is built (backProp scalar path
and backPropOCL). No backend, kernel or DLL change; the forward pass and
every inference path are untouched, which is the point - the network learns
to absorb the offset, so its raw argmax becomes the balanced-optimal
decision with nothing applied at inference.

Replaces rather than stacks. Minority replay is disabled while this is on,
and the post-hoc inference prior is forced off. Stacking is not a
theoretical worry: simulated on the measured 1118/1119/34298 distribution
in the weak-signal regime, plain CE collapses to Neutral (33.4% balanced,
Buy 0%), replay reaches 48.1%, logit adjustment 50.9% with better balance -
and BOTH together score 45.4% with Neutral recall at 0%, worse than either
alone. Buda et al. 2018 predicts exactly that.

Motivation from the six-chart run: every topology took one direction to
~50% recall and abandoned the other, the direction chosen arbitrarily (the
batch-norm control went Buy 1% / Sell 42%, the inverse of the other five).
One era in 1,301 cleared the per-class recall floor.

Fingerprinted conditionally, so the converged 60.7% models on disk keep
their filenames and stay loadable as the fallback.

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2026-07-29 19:05:14 -04:00