Commit graph Warrior_EA/Expert/ExpertSignalAIBase.mqh
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AnimateDread
1dda479261 fix(train): clamp the sweep to indicator-servable depth - the scan wall was CopyBuffer, not a cold indicator
Symptom: on a 3-chart run with contention ruled out (SP500 sitting at era 2552),
USDJPY and XAUUSD produced 0 usable windows out of 50,163 and 33,966 - forever,
re-sweeping on every discard, which is the panel oscillating 0->100%.

Bars() is the PRICE series depth. A CUSTOM indicator's is not: MT5 calculates it
in its own context bounded by "Max bars in chart" (TERMINAL_MAXBARS), and
CopyBuffer past that limit does not short-read, it FAILS - so CDoubleBuffer keeps
nothing and EVERY index answers EMPTY_VALUE. ADMovingAverage is the only custom
indicator whose feature block REJECTS on EMPTY_VALUE (ADZigZag, also CiCustom,
neutral-fills; RSI/MACD/Ichimoku/ATR are built-ins served at any depth), so the
sweep died on feature 25 of every bar while the 24 price features under it were
fine. That is exactly the "window had 24 of 832 values" the stall report named.

Perfectly depth-correlated, measured 2026-08-17:
  SP500  16,234 bars -> era 2552     XAUUSD 33,982 -> 0 windows
  XTIUSD 16,611 bars -> era   71     USDJPY 50,179 -> 0 windows

This RETIRES the 2026-08-17 cold-indicator reading of the same stall. f0cf659 was
right that the rejection must be transient and that the dead backoff had to arm -
the branch did change to 'cold-indicator backoff' - but waiting cannot fix a depth
the terminal will never grant. So Train() now clamps to TunableBarsCalculated()
(which existed and was only ever used for a tuner printout) and trains on the
history that IS available, naming TERMINAL_MAXBARS in the log so the cause is
readable next time. m_coldSweepTick still owns the genuinely transient case: that
reads back as -1, not a positive short count. Recomputed per era, so the clamp
lifts by itself if the setting is raised.

Also fixes a real off-by-one it was hiding: the MA block reads GetData(idx) AND
GetData(idx + 1) for its bar-over-bar change, but ResizeBuffers sized m_MA to
barIndex exactly - so the deepest bar of every sweep read one past the end and was
rejected as cold. Same shape as the +ichiKijun the Ichimoku/close pair already has.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 13:27:14 -04:00
AnimateDread
1cf4c57d57 fix(altdata): median-fill instead of zero-fill, and a one-shot feature-vector autopsy
ALT-DATA AUDIT. The files themselves are healthy - all six symbols, 6,073 daily
rows, 2010-01-01 to 2026-08-17, no constant or degenerate columns, sane tails
(mac_cpi/mac_unemp flat ~47d is monthly data behaving correctly). The problem is
not the data, it is what happens where the data ISN'T.

CAltDataPanel::Features() returned an all-ZERO vector for any bar older than the
file's first row, and left blank cells at 0 too. Both were deliberate ('the block
is additive context and must degrade, never reject the bar') and that reasoning
holds for the CHANGE columns - but half these features are LEVELS: vix, ivol,
mac_y10, mac_cpi, mac_unemp, eia_util. For a level, 0 is not a missing reading,
it is an impossible one far outside the series' range. VIX does not visit zero.

And the spike lands in exactly the wrong place. Every alt file starts 2010-01-01
while the charts run far deeper - USDJPY H4 reaches ~1994, roughly HALF its
history - so 'alt block is all zeros' is precisely the predicate 'this bar is
older than 2010'. The IS/OOS split is chronological, so that predicate covers
~half of IS and none of OOS: an in-sample feature guaranteed to be useless
out-of-sample, and a bimodal input for the first BatchNorm to normalise. Not a
lookahead leak - a distribution corruption, which is quieter and was never
reported anywhere.

Now filled with the column MEDIAN over the covered range. A constant cannot leak
whatever its source - it takes the same value on every pre-coverage bar, so it
carries no information about which of those bars won - which is what makes a
median computed over later data legitimate here. Median not mean because the
series are skewed. Blank cells get the same treatment (eia_stk_idx1y alone has
181 blanks in 6,073 rows) and the count is now logged at load.

THE BACKOFF WAS ALREADY THERE AND WAS DEAD. Training.mqh arms m_coldSweepTick on
m_featureFailTransient, but only the open/ATR guards ever set that flag, so
f0cf659's cold ADMovingAverage looked PERMANENT and the sweep re-ran at full
speed forever. Setting the flag in the indicator guards revives the mechanism
that was already designed for this; no second backoff was needed and the one I
first wrote has been removed in favour of it.

SELF-HEALING, as asked. ReportFeatureHealth() runs once, the first time pass 1
produces usable windows, samples ~400 bars spread across the whole training range
and names every feature slot that is CONSTANT or mostly-zero, tagging alt-block
slots as alt[i]. Both of today's failures were the same shape - a block silently
produces nothing while every downstream number stays plausible - and neither an
accuracy figure nor a model can tell 'this feature is always 0' from 'this
feature is genuinely 0 here'. Evenly spaced sampling so a block that dies only in
deep history is caught as surely as one dead everywhere. A report, not a gate:
a rare-flag feature can be legitimately constant, and refusing to train would
turn a diagnostic into an outage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 12:53:51 -04:00
AnimateDread
d87f7d88ff feat(gate): cross-instrument pooled certification
The deploy bottleneck is CERTIFICATION, not training. A 4,738-bar OOS window at
L=75.6 holds ~63 independent observations; certifying a 3pp edge at 2 sigma needs
~1,036. More bars of the same symbol barely help - they overlap. Other symbols do
not.

WHAT POOLS. Not win rates: symbols have different derived geometries, different
break-evens and different drifts, so averaging raw rates across them is
meaningless. What pools is each symbol's EXCESS OVER ITS OWN CHANCE RATE,
combined by inverse-variance weighting (fixed-effects meta-analysis). Each symbol
keeps its own model, geometry and chance rate; only the evidence is combined.

THE CORRELATION PROBLEM, bracketed rather than assumed away. SP500 and NAS100 are
~0.9 correlated and pooling them as independent inflates the evidence. Nothing
here can measure that without sharing return series, so instead of guessing a
correction the gate reports both ends:

  SE_INDEP = sqrt(1/SUM(1/var_i))     all members independent
  SE_CORR  = SUM(w_i * sqrt(var_i))   all members perfectly correlated

The truth is always between. THE GATE USES SE_CORR, so a pass cannot be an
artifact of correlated instruments - that bound already assumes the worst. The
ratio is logged as the diversification credit the gate declines to claim, so the
cost of that conservatism is visible instead of hidden.

SCOPE, deliberately limited: the pooled result is REPORTED, never folded into
tradeableOK. The local gate certifies the model that actually trades this symbol;
the pool answers the different question of whether the strategy has an edge at
all. Letting a cross-symbol result license a local deploy would ship a model that
never cleared its own bar - so it cannot.

Mechanics: one file per instrument (no concurrent-write path to get wrong), every
FileOpen carrying FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE, records skipped rather than
reinterpreted on a version mismatch, 12h staleness cutoff so a stopped chart
cannot vote, and pooling refused below 3 instruments. Poolability requires
matching timeframe and ratio; differing SYMBOL is the entire point. Publishing is
unconditional - a pool that only hears from winners is a selection effect, not a
meta-analysis.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 10:45:37 -04:00
AnimateDread
2b5d0f8355 feat(measurement): fix zero-skill denominator, publish the deploy bar, measure lifespan per rung, add a MEASURE scale objective
The last run could not have demonstrated an edge either way, and nothing in the
log said so. Four changes so it does.

1. THE ZERO-SKILL LINE DIVIDED BY THE WRONG DENOMINATOR. m_oosWinLongTotal resets
   every era; m_oosSamples only resets on a full model reset. So 'always-long %'
   decayed as ~1/era: a run whose true rate is 37% printed 1.2% at era 33 and
   0.0% at era 2219. This is the SAME bug already found and fixed for
   logBuyPredPct thirty lines above ('era-15 Buy:2% that was really ~30%'), left
   in the one line whose whole job is to be the reference every other number is
   read against. Correct at era 1, wrong everywhere after - including the '62%
   zero-skill' figure in the 2026-08-16 notes. Now per-era, and always-short is
   finally readable.

2. THE DEPLOY GATE STATES ITS OWN BAR. 'edge -1pp' era after era cannot separate
   'short by a hair' from 'short by an amount no strategy could cover'. The era
   line now prints the required win rate, the SE, the effective n and the
   lifespan it was deflated by; above 100% it says UNREACHABLE. At 4,738 OOS bars
   and L=75.6 there are ~63 independent observations, putting the bar near 66% at
   typical coverage.

3. LIFESPAN MEASURED PER RUNG. The first-passage cache already stores touch ages
   at every ladder level, so each candidate geometry's resolution time is
   readable without training on it - L-vs-width becomes a measurement across the
   whole ladder in ONE run rather than a second chart. Each rung reports L,
   n_eff, min provable edge and min provable EV.

4. SCALE OBJECTIVE IS PHASE-AWARE, defaulting to MEASURE. Width and detectability
   are opposed: labels overlap by L, L grows like m*k = width^2 at fixed ratio,
   so min provable EV ~ width^2 while the cost saving from width is only linear.
   Doubling width quadruples the smallest EV you can prove. DEPLOY (widest that
   clears reachability) is right once an edge is known; MEASURE (narrowest that
   keeps round-trip spread under BARRIER_MAX_COST_FRACTION_PCT) is right while it
   still has to be shown. The direction does not depend on the exponent, and
   item 3 makes the exponent checkable.

Fixed in review: m_lastRungLifespan is cleared on every LadderWinShare entry or a
rejected rung reports the previous rung's lifespan as its own; per-rung
detectability is labelled IS-sample based (the deriver may not see the holdout),
so absolute figures are optimistic while the ranking is unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 10:37:05 -04:00
AnimateDread
d1ac18ebdb fix(labels): correct EffectiveSampleSize clamp order, share the horizon ladder, retract a false justification
Self-review of 1540ba8 against the FULL 6,930-era log rather than the first
three minutes of it. Three corrections.

1. EffectiveSampleSize() clamped in the wrong order. MathMax(2, MathMin(eff,
   rawN)) returns 2 when rawN is 1 - an effective sample LARGER than the raw
   one, shrinking the SE in exactly the direction the function exists to
   prevent. Floor first, cap at rawN last.

2. The horizon cap rejected on the CEILING only, and said so as though that
   made the label untruncated. It does not: the horizon ladder also snaps DOWN,
   so a pair needing 317 bars is granted 256 and is silently truncated without
   ever being flagged CLAMPED. Added SnapHorizonToLadder() / GrantedHorizonBars()
   and the scale ladder now reports "needs N gets M" per rung. Rejection stays on
   the ceiling alone - matching ReportGeometryExpectancyScan's '!' exactly, which
   was the point - because rejecting on the snap-down would select rungs for
   landing just above a ladder point rather than for anything about the market.
   ComputeBarrierHorizonBars' private copy of the ladder is gone; there is now
   one copy, which is the whole reason RequiredHorizonBars was factored out.

3. RETRACTED THE JUSTIFICATION IN 1540ba8's COMMENTS. That commit claimed the
   overlap correction was needed because the operating point's null-of-the-
   maximum gate fired on 47/73 Perceptron eras (64%) where a family-wise test
   should fire on ~5%. Those 73 fits were the first three minutes of a
   six-and-a-half-hour run. Over the full run:

     PAI  47/3214 = 1.5%    HYB  30/1200 = 2.5%
     CONV  4/63   = 6.3%    LSTM 75/915  = 8.2%

   All at or below the null. The gate from 7414570 is working as designed and
   PAI's 47 clears were a cold-start transient never repeated in 3,141 later
   fits; its threshold over the run's second half has sd 0.01. The overlap
   correction is still right - sqrt(p(1-p)/n) on overlapping labels is the wrong
   formula - but it fixes no observed failure, and it costs nothing today
   because no model is near the deploy line.

WHAT THE FULL RUN DOES CONFIRM, unchanged: the geometry ran away exactly as
described (2.00/6.00 h128 -> 3.49/6.99 h256 -> 4.86/9.71 h384, three passes,
stopping at q90 because the quantile ladder ended), the label stayed long-skewed
at Buy 42.9% / Sell 22.6%, and no checkpoint on any of the four models ever
cleared the deployability floor. Pooled declustered win rates: PAI 31.70%,
HYB 31.02%, LSTM 32.69%, CONV 31.57% - every one 4-6pp below the 37% always-long
chance rate and 1-2.7pp below the 33.7% cost-adjusted break-even.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 07:30:19 -04:00
AnimateDread
1540ba8e64 fix(labels): overlapping-label sample correction + horizon cap on the scale ladder
Three defects, all surfaced by the 2026-08-17 SP500 H4 run that shipped
stop 4.86 / target 9.71 (width 14.57*ATR, horizon 384).

1. EVERY STANDARD ERROR ASSUMED INDEPENDENT SAMPLES. Triple-barrier labels
   started one per bar overlap by the label's lifespan, so n calls are worth
   ~n/L independent observations (Lopez de Prado, AFML ch. 4 - sample
   uniqueness). All three sqrt(p(1-p)/n) sites divided by the RAW count.

   The tell: the operating point's null-of-the-maximum gate is family-wise and
   should fire on ~5% of eras under the null. Measured fire rates - PAI 47/73
   (64%), ConvLSTM 9/24, LSTM 8/21 (38%), CONV 4/62 (6%). CONV, the only model
   whose margin distribution admits few bins, sat on the null; the rest cleared
   a bar that was too low by ~sqrt(L). PAI's deployed threshold consequently
   alternated between the ENDS of its own range era to era (0.10 -> 0.88 ->
   0.86 -> 0.66; coverage 16% <-> 73%).

   TripleBarrierLabel now records when each label became KNOWABLE - the first
   winning touch, or both stops, or the timeout - and the prebuild accumulates
   the mean. EffectiveSampleSize() feeds the operating point, the member deploy
   gate and the ensemble vote gate. Conservative by construction (n/L is an
   upper bound on the damage); gates get harder, never easier.

2. THE SCALE LADDER RAN AWAY, again. Horizon scales as swingMedian*sl*tp, and
   since 4d8cb08 reachability is measured OVER that horizon - so a wider rung
   buys itself the time that makes it look reachable. Same target -> horizon ->
   reach -> target loop the excursion window is kept short to avoid; fixing the
   window confusion reopened it through the other door. It walked 128 -> 256 ->
   384 bars and stopped at q90, the widest rung there is, with every rung
   reading 39-48% against a 20% floor. A floor nothing fails selects nothing.

   Rungs whose required horizon exceeds BARRIER_HORIZON_MAX are now rejected -
   the same rule ReportGeometryExpectancyScan already applied. It was printing
   the shipped pair as CLAMPED and disqualified ('h384!') two lines under the
   deriver that chose it: two subsystems, one geometry, opposite verdicts.

3. THE RUNG SNAP DESTROYED THE RATIO IT WAS COMPARING. Both legs snapped
   independently to the coarse first-passage grid, re-rating each candidate:
   q90 4.86/9.71 -> 5.00/10.00 (2.00), q85 4.07/8.14 -> 5.00/10.00 (IDENTICAL
   measurement), q75 3.07/6.13 -> 4.00/6.50 (1.63 - a nearer target). So the
   ladder compared win shares taken at ratios from 1.63 to 2.17 and read the
   differences as scale. It is why the reach column came out non-monotone in
   width (q75 48.5% above q90 42.9%). The stop now snaps to its nearest rung in
   log space and the target follows the ratio off it; the pair actually measured
   is returned and logged, so a collision reads as a collision.

Also: LadderWinShare guarded against the conditional (fractal) geometry path,
which fills n from m_fracLegCount while leaving idxList empty - a latent
out-of-bounds on a currently-dead path.

New log lines: mean label lifespan and effective n on the label-cache line, the
required-vs-available horizon per rung, and the grid pair the reconciliation
actually measured (its tolerance now scales with the grid skew instead of a flat
5pp).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 01:12:05 -04:00
AnimateDread
4d8cb08501 fix(geometry): the reachability floor measured the WRONG WINDOW - my bug from bc57aca, and it cost real width
RECONCILED: the derivation reported "target reached on 17.7% of bars" while the
label cache reported Buy on 35.9%. Nothing was broken. They measure different
windows, and both are correct:

  EXCURSION window   ~12 bars (the SWING MEDIAN) - what m_excUpCache accumulates
                     over. Deliberately short: sizing a barrier off travel
                     measured over a horizon that itself scales with the barrier
                     is circular, and it ran away to 14-31*ATR on EURUSD/USDCAD
                     in 2026-08-07. That guard is correct and stays.
  BARRIER horizon    64 bars - what the LABEL walk and the first-passage ladder
                     run over, and how long the EA actually holds the trade.

So `up >= target` is a 12-bar question and `label == Buy` is a 64-bar one, and
the second can freely exceed the first. TripleBarrierLabel gates the excursion
accumulation on `idx - t <= excWindow` while the barrier walk and the ladder run
the full horizon - the split is explicit and intentional.

THE BUG IS MINE. bc57aca's scale ladder tested reachability with `up[i] >= tp`,
i.e. it asked the 12-bar question about a 64-bar trade. That understates
reachability by ~2x, which is why EVERY wide rung was rejected and the geometry
fell back to the tightest rung at 1.61/3.21. The data supported considerably
wider; the test was just asking the wrong question.

FIX: LadderWinShare() reads the answer off the first-passage ladder - target
touched strictly before the stop, over the full horizon, tie to the stop. That
is the identical question the label walk asks, so the ladder share and the Buy
rate should now agree to within rung discretisation. Both legs snap to the
SMALLEST rung at or above the requested multiple (harder target, harder stop) so
the floor stays conservative.

Expect the scale ladder to select a WIDER rung on the next relabel. On this
data the excursion test read 17.7% at q50 where the true full-horizon share is
35.9%, so rungs that scored 8.1% and 2.8% were likely well above the floor.

ALSO:

- Window reconciliation now PRINTED every derivation: excursion travel share,
  ladder win share, and the label cache's Buy share side by side, with the
  ladder-vs-label gap flagged if it exceeds rung discretisation. Those two must
  agree; if they ever stop agreeing, one of them is wrong and the line says so.
- Renamed tpReach/slReach -> tpTravel/slTravel and relabelled the log line. They
  describe the EXCURSION window and are near-tautological there (a q50 stop is
  exceeded by ~50% of bars); calling them "reached within the horizon" is what
  made the two quantities look like one.
- BARRIER_MIN_TP_REACH_PCT is now BARRIER_MIN_REACH_FRACTION_OF_BE (0.60) x
  break-even instead of a hardcoded 20.0. Break-even for 1:RR is 100/(1+RR), so
  the absolute floor silently tightened as RR rose - 0.60x at RR=2 but 0.80x at
  RR=3, penalising the user for asking for a bigger target. Evaluates to exactly
  20.0% at the shipped RR=2, so this is a no-op today and correct if the knob
  moves.

NOT COMPILED - user compiles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 00:51:08 -04:00
AnimateDread
bc57aca15d fix(geometry): the target was small BY CONSTRUCTION - ratio is now policy, scale is measured, ladder ceiling removed
The derivation read the stop from q75 of ADVERSE travel and the target from q50
of FAVOURABLE travel. Over one horizon those distributions are broadly the same
shape, so q75 > q50 MECHANICALLY - the target came out smaller than the stop no
matter what the market did. SP500 H4 shipped stop 3.07 / target 1.70: a 0.55:1
payoff needing 64.3%. That was never a measurement, it was two mismatched
constants.

The reachability line printed beside it - "target on 50.0% of bars, stop on
25.0%" - is exactly 1-q50 and 1-q75. Tautological. It cannot disconfirm
anything, and it read as validation.

WIDTH AND RATIO ARE INDEPENDENT AND ONLY ONE PAYS. EV = edge x width;
ratio is EV-neutral (a driftless walk reaches +m before -k with probability
k/(k+m), which IS break-even). Width is what buys cost efficiency: the spread
is a fixed 0.047*ATR here, so the shipped 4.77*ATR width paid it 21 times per
unit of travel. So:

  RATIO  = policy. BARRIER_TARGET_RR = 2.0 (user's 1:2). Break-even 33.3%.
  SCALE  = measured. The stop quantile is chosen from a ladder, WIDEST FIRST,
           taking the first rung whose implied 2x target is still reached often
           enough to be a trainable class.

That last clause is the difference from the min-reward:risk raise removed in
2026-08-09, which forced target = 2 x stop with NO reachability test, landed on
6.66*ATR reachable on 3.3% of bars, and trained the model to predict something
that essentially never happened. Same ratio; the scale now retreats until the
data says the target is attainable. Every rung is logged.

LADDER CEILING REMOVED. BARRIER_LADDER stopped at 5.00 and the expectancy scan's
"best resolvable pair on width alone" came back as stop 5.05 / target 4.95 - it
pinned to the top rung. A recommendation landing exactly on the edge of its own
search space is a boundary, not a finding: it cannot tell "5 ATR is optimal"
from "5 ATR is all we allowed". Extended to 20*ATR (8 -> 14 rungs). Nothing else
needs editing - every consumer is parameterised by BARRIER_LADDER_COUNT - and
the horizon constraints (decided >= 60%, reachability floor) now bind instead of
a constant.

THE SCAN COULD NOT SEE THE SHIPPED GEOMETRY. ReportBarrierGeometryScan looked
the configured pair up in its integer grid, and DeriveBarrierGeometry produces
CONTINUOUS multiples (3.07/1.70) that can never equal a grid point - so
cfgExcess stayed at its -1.0 sentinel and the report printed "configured 3:2
scores -1.00000", which reads as a catastrophic score and actually means "never
evaluated". Worse, the grid skipped target<stop entirely because it "inverts the
trade's whole premise" - while the derivation was shipping exactly that. The
incumbent is now always scored as a peer (never crowned; it is already in force
and is not an enum pairing the scan could adopt).

BREAK-EVEN NOW INCLUDES THE SPREAD. Every report quoted the frictionless
SL/(SL+TP). On SP500 H4 that read 64.3% while the MEASURED zero-skill rate was
62.1% - a 2.2pp gap that IS the cost, and that made every model look 2.2pp
better than it was. CostAdjustedBreakEvenPct() prices a win at (TP - spread) and
a loss at (SL + spread), matching the expectancy scan's convention exactly so
the two reports cannot disagree.

It also feeds FitDirConfThreshold, which is the correctness half: the operating
point subtracts break-even from precision, so the frictionless figure made every
candidate threshold look better by the width of the spread - 2.2pp against a
measured edge of 2.3pp, i.e. very nearly all of it.

Era line now carries both: "break-even 64.3% frictionless, 66.6% AFTER SPREAD".

Forces a full relabel and retrain. Requested.

NOT COMPILED - user compiles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 00:34:32 -04:00
AnimateDread
331ab29c56 feat(diagnostics): split a reported "Neutral" into CHOSE vs TIED - they need opposite fixes
ApplyClassificationSoftmax() requires a STRICT majority over both rivals and
sends every tie, 2-way or 3-way, to Neutral. So "OOS recall Neutral:100%" is
two completely different events sharing one label:

  CHOSE - the net genuinely ranks Neutral highest. A class-prior/label problem.
  TIED  - the top two are EXACTLY equal, so the net expressed no preference and
          the tie-break reported Neutral. A SATURATION problem: the head is
          SIGMOID, and a saturated sigmoid returns exactly 0.0f or 1.0f in the
          DLL's float32, so two classes pinned to the same rail compare equal
          and the bar is silently discarded.

Nothing in the logs could tell them apart, and the fixes point opposite ways.
Eras 1-25 of the 2026-08-17 solo PAI run read "Neutral 100%" at spread avg 0.99
- fully saturated - and broke out at era 27 as the spread fell to 0.75. That is
consistent with EITHER story. The user reports the Neutral phase on most runs,
so it is worth four longs to stop guessing.

Four per-era counters on the pass 3 OOS walk, reported as:

  | Neutral CHOSE 12.4% / TIED 38.1% (of which B=S 1204) | rail 61.2%

  m_oosNeutralStrict - Neutral strictly highest
  m_oosNeutralTie    - no strict winner; the tie-break produced Neutral
  m_oosTieBuySell    - the costly subset: Buy and Sell tied AT the top, i.e. a
                       DIRECTIONAL reading thrown away by float equality
  m_oosRailBars      - any raw output sitting on a sigmoid asymptote, the
                       saturation that makes exact ties possible at all

Read on the RAW logits, before ApplyClassificationSoftmax() overwrites TempData
in place. Legitimate because softmax is strictly monotone: it cannot change the
ordering and cannot break a tie either, so the raw reading and the decision
always agree. Placed alongside the existing min/max/spread capture so all the
output diagnostics describe the same values.

Measurement only - no decision path reads these.

NOT COMPILED - user compiles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 00:06:54 -04:00
AnimateDread
208da4cbaa fix: drop the ranking slice for the calibration band; un-collapse the tiers
NOT COMPILED - user compiles.

(1) THE RANKING SLICE IS GONE. It reserved 20% of the OOS window so the
pattern-DB backfill would read bars the deployed checkpoint was not SELECTED on.
That objection stands; carving a new region to answer it did not. The calibration
band already has every property the slice was buying:

  never trained on | never graded by pass 3 (which walks [0, oosCutoff) and so
  never reaches it) | never seen by the deploy gate | purged by a full label
  horizon on BOTH sides | and larger besides - 1,684 bars vs the ~970 carved

So the backfill now walks [calibLo, calibHi) and pass 3 goes back to grading the
entire OOS window, exactly as before any of this. The gate gets its full sample
back (~10% of a sigma), the split loses a region, and the failure mode found an
hour ago - a reserved region silently blanking ~10 months of chart arrows,
because arrows are only drawn on bars pass 3 grades - becomes impossible.

One impurity, stated in the completion log rather than hidden:
m_dirConfThreshold is FITTED on that band and the walk applies it to decide which
bars fired, so coverage there is mildly optimistic. One scalar under a coverage
floor, against checkpoint selection over hundreds of eras.

This backfill IS the deploy-time warm-up: it runs right after FinalizeTrainRun()
restores the deployed weights, so it scores with exactly what is about to trade.

(2) EVERY CALL WAS TIER 0, AND IT WAS ARITHMETIC. ConfidenceTier() quartiles
[floorConf, 1] where floorConf = 1/3 - the lowest magnitude a 3-way softmax
winner can hold. But it was fed CalibratedConfidenceMagnitude(), which multiplies
by m_confidenceCalScale, clamped to [0.3, 1.5]. That lower clamp is BELOW 1/3.
Whenever calibration bottoms out, t goes negative and MathMax(0, ...) pins every
call to tier 0.

Which is what the live run does. m_confidenceCalScale is EMA'd toward
empiricalAccuracy / avgClaimedConfidence; with the model over-calling Neutral,
3-class agreement sits near 10% against a claimed confidence near 0.9, so the
ratio is ~0.11 and clamps to 0.3 every era. Logged:

  tier prec T0:72%(828) T1:n/a(0) T2:n/a(0) T3:n/a(0)

828 calls, one bucket - the four tier weights and the entire per-tier pattern-DB
ranking reduced to a single number. The backfill was feeding a mechanism that
structurally could not rank.

Tiering now reads the RAW head magnitude, which genuinely lives on the
[1/3, 1] range these bounds were written for. Calibration keeps its real jobs -
AIConfidence() for MM sizing and SignedAIConfidence() for the vote are unchanged.

STILL OPEN, deliberately not touched here: the calibration TARGET itself.
empiricalAccuracy is 3-class agreement, which is the wrong quantity to scale a
DIRECTIONAL confidence against - it counts a Neutral class that is 0.19% of
labels. The honest target is the win rate on the calls the confidence describes
(directional precision), with the claimed-confidence average taken over those
same called bars. That needs a new accumulator and it interacts with the Neutral
over-calling being fixed elsewhere, so it wants one clean run first.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 23:06:11 -04:00
AnimateDread
75d23e9b82 fix(gate): move the ranking slice to the OLD end - it walled off the recent chart
NOT COMPILED - user compiles.

User: "there is quite some trading going on, but absolutely nothing on the recent
area of the chart, like there is a hard wall starting around november 2025."

That wall is 7caf2f6's ranking slice, and it was placed at the wrong end. Chart
arrows are only ever drawn on bars pass 3 GRADES, and the slice reserved the
NEWEST 20% of the OOS window plus a label-horizon purge. At the live sizing -
~4,860 OOS bars, 128-bar horizon - that is ~1,100 H4 bars withheld from grading,
about ten months back from today, exactly where the wall appears.

The invisible cost was worse than the visible one: it handed the deploy gate the
OLDEST 80% of the OOS window and withheld the most recent regime from the single
decision that has to generalise forward.

Both fixed by putting the reserve at the oldest end instead:

  [0, oosScoreHi)        OOS - graded by pass 3   (NEWEST, arrows restored)
  [oosScoreHi, rankLo)   purge - one label horizon
  [rankLo, oosCutoff)    RANKING - backfill only, graded by nobody
  [oosCutoff, calibLo)   purge
  [calibLo, calibHi)     CALIBRATION
  ...                    IS

Of the three consumers competing for those bars, recency is worth least to the
ranking: it is an ORDERING of confidence tiers, far less regime-sensitive than an
absolute win rate, while the gate's power and the operator's read of the chart
both want the newest data. The slice keeps every property that made it worth
carving - never graded, never selected on, never seen by the gate, purged on both
sides - so the backfilled rows are still honestly out-of-sample.

RankSliceHiIndex is replaced by RankSliceLoIndex + OosScoreHiIndex; pass 3 now
excludes the slice at the TOP of its walk and descends to 2 as it always did.
The backfill walks [RankSliceLoIndex, oosCutoff) via a new m_dbBackfillStopIndex,
clamped at both ends so a degenerate slice yields an empty walk rather than one
that wanders into graded bars. Verified no reference to the old helper survives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 22:58:55 -04:00
AnimateDread
1eeed3ac06 revert(ui): restore the unconditional era-end arrow repaint
b197999 gated the repaint on "this era beat the best checkpoint". That was not
what was asked for and it changes policy rather than fixing a bug, so it is
reverted - behaviour is now byte-identical to before b197999. Only a comment
recording what was verified remains.

What the check found: there is NO repaint or erase at the start of an era. With
NMS on, passes 1, 2.5 and 3 only RECORD predictions into m_arrowSignalCache -
pass 1's own comment says "NMS on: record only - the era-end sweep is the SOLE
renderer, so no raw (un-declustered) arrow is ever drawn mid-era" - and
PruneDirectionalClusters runs once, at the end of pass 3, which is the end of the
era. The requested behaviour was already the implemented behaviour.

So the arrows vanishing at the era boundary is not a timing fault. That sweep
DELETEs the arrow on any bar the era scored Neutral, and the model is currently
scoring Neutral on 98-100% of bars (see the logit-adjustment finding: Neutral is
the RAREST class at 10.6% and the imbalance correction is subsidising it by ~1.2
logits). The chart is reporting the model accurately; the model is the problem.

One thing that CAN clear arrows at era 0, and did on the first attach after the
|ALTW re-key: ClearPersistedChartSignals("fresh topology at era 0 - arrows belong
to a previous model"). That fires once per fresh model, not per era.

Compile-verified: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 22:41:59 -04:00
AnimateDread
b19799910d fix(ui): chart arrows follow the BEST checkpoint, not the latest era
User report: "as soon as the next era training begins the chart signals are
erased, they should persist for as long as they are accurate."

Cause: PruneDirectionalClusters ran unconditionally at the end of pass 3, and it
DELETEs the arrow on any bar the CURRENT era scored Neutral. A model exploring
away from its best therefore wipes the chart every era even though the best
checkpoint still calls those turns. On the run that prompted this the model sat
at OOS recall Neutral:100% for 40+ consecutive eras, so essentially every arrow
was deleted at every era boundary.

The render is now deferred to the era-end block - the first point that knows
whether the era beat the best checkpoint - and only a new best repaints. On eras
that did not improve, the previous best's arrows stay untouched. Two exceptions
keep the chart from ever showing nothing: before the first checkpoint exists
there is no best to preserve, so early eras still paint; and a finishing run
repaints unconditionally, because FinalizeTrainRun is about to restore the
deployed weights and the chart must describe THOSE.

Recorded for ensemble members too. A member's own best era is not the deployable
one (the joint checkpoint decides that), but it is still the most accurate thing
that member has drawn, and the alternative is a chart that empties itself.

Also verified against the log, since two other symptoms were reported alongside:

  era cadence  PAI-b6b5 (before these changes) 3.76 s/era
               PAI-17ae (after)                3.53 s/era
  topology     both "2 dense from 16 units | input 800 (16 bars x 50)"
  calibration  both fitted on 1699 held-out bars

So training speed is unchanged - the ~6% is the ranking slice removing 20% of
pass 3's bars. It only FEELS fast because this is a single PAI chart taking the
whole 120 ms budget, not four ensemble members sharing it behind an era barrier.

The Neutral collapse is also pre-existing, not new: b6b5 ran at Neutral 94-100%
with 1-5% directional calls for all 723 of its eras, before any of this work.
That is the known neutral-collapse/recall-gate failure mode, and it is what
"barely drawing signals" actually is. Worth watching, separately: b6b5 reached
best-bal 34.2% by era 723 while 17ae is at 13.6% after 77 - too early to read,
but it is the number to check once 17ae has run comparable eras.

Compile-verified: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 22:33:55 -04:00
AnimateDread
7caf2f626e feat: derived taper restored; DB ranking reads a reserved slice, shrunk
TOPOLOGY - reverts the two constants and drops CausalHiddenLayerFloor.
The MQL5 article's 30%-per-layer cut and floor of 20 are load-bearing on ITS
first-layer width of 1000 (1000->300->90->27 needs a floor to stop). This
codebase MEASURES that width, and on the live SP500 H4 config it is 16 units -
already floored, with the budget printing "11360 estimated in-sample bars
cannot support a 800-wide input ... roughly 1.1 weights per training bar -
expect overfitting". At 16 units a floor of 20 makes lastHidden >=
m_initialNeuronsCount, so ComputeHiddenLayerCount returns on its first branch
and the width taper - the only part derived from this symbol's data - became
dead code on all four ensemble members, with depth (2 -> 4) set entirely by
counting feature domains. ComputeLayerWidths had already rejected this exact
pair of constants in its own comment.

The causal floor's premise does not hold either: layers are not inference
steps. The "1 layer linear / 2 nonlinear / 3 multi-connected" result is
Lippmann 1987 and is about hard-threshold units; with sigmoid/ReLU, Cybenko
1989 and Hornik 1991 give universal approximation from a single hidden layer.
Depth buys parameter efficiency for compositional functions, not reasoning
hops. ForceHiddenLayers remains for measuring depth directly.

RANKING SLICE - the backfill no longer reads the window it is judged on.
The deployed checkpoint is CHOSEN as the best-scoring era on the OOS window,
so win rates measured back over it are selection-inflated, and the backfill
was writing exactly those into the table filter weights rank on: the
selection set consumed twice, beside a deploy gate that applies a Sidak
correction for that effect. The newest RANK_SLICE_PCT_OF_OOS (20%) of the OOS
window, plus a label-horizon purge, is now reserved and graded by nothing -
not pass 3, not checkpoint selection, not the gate. The backfill reads only
that. The gate keeps ~80% of its measurement (power goes as the square root,
so ~10% of a sigma), and the slice is the newest data, which is the regime
about to be traded. RankSliceBars returns 0 when no honest slice fits and the
backfill then REFUSES and says so, rather than falling back to the scoring
window and looking like a success.

SHRINKAGE - per-tier win rates are shrunk toward the filter's own pooled rate
by MIN_TRADES_FOR_WIN_RATE pseudo-trades before becoming weights. The raw
ratio at the minimum sample count carries a ~15pp standard error, so a tier
that went 8-2 was handed weight 80 and outranked a tier measured over
hundreds of calls at 55 - the ranking was being driven by which small tier got
lucky. Opt-in per call site (priorWeight 0 keeps the raw behaviour).

Compile-verified: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 21:49:52 -04:00
AnimateDread
b6736fd40b fix: the DB backfill could never run, and HEAD did not compile
Four defects in 64c5dd5/1a05e63, found by review + a baseline compile.
Goals 1-8 of that session are unchanged; this makes 6 and 8 actually reachable.

1. HEAD DID NOT COMPILE - 6 errors. CControlPanel::Minimize/Maximize were
   declared `virtual bool ... override`, but CAppDialog declares both as
   `virtual void` (Controls\Dialog.mqh). errors 265 + 404 on each, plus 151
   on `bool ok = CAppDialog::Minimize()`. Return type is void now; there was
   never a success flag to forward. Verified: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

2. THE BACKFILL COULD NEVER ADVANCE, and neither could the OOS continual
   simulation (that one has been dead since it was written). Both are armed
   at the instant convergence is declared, and both advance only from inside
   Train(), one chunk per call. But ScheduleTrainingIfNeeded's only per-tick
   ArmStudyEvent site sits in the `else` of a branch taken whenever
   m_trainingComplete is set and m_trainRunActive is clear - which is exactly
   the state FinalizeTrainRun() leaves behind one line before they are armed.
   Train() was never called again, so the walks sat at their start index
   forever: no "simulation complete" line, and not one row written to the DB
   this feature exists to fill. Only a manual Resume/Retrain unstuck them.
   Both flags now keep the model schedulable.

3. IN AI_HYBRID - the mode this ships in - the backfill was never even armed.
   Ensemble members deploy at Train() ENTRY and return immediately (so no era
   is wasted), which skips the era-end block the backfill was started from.
   All four members were a no-op for a second, independent reason. Armed on
   the ensemble deploy path too, from m_resumeBars/m_resumeOosCutoff.

4. RE-RUNS DUPLICATED ROWS. RegisterSignal inserts unconditionally - no key,
   no duplicate check - and m_dbBackfillDone is in-memory, so every later
   attach that retrained to convergence wrote a second full set of rows for
   the same bars. The ranking would count one bar once per model that ever
   deployed, weighting superseded opinions as heavily as the live one. A
   .dbfill marker stamps the deployed era; written only on completion (an
   interrupted walk redoes itself rather than ranking a partial window) and
   deleted with the other sidecars on reset-weights.

Also: WarmBlocking's timeout was silent, which restored the exact silent
pin failure it was added to prevent - it now says so in the journal, and
returns true for "no reference pairs to wait for" so the warning stays rare
enough to be read.

Not addressed, needs a decision: the backfill scores the OOS window with the
checkpoint that was SELECTED as best on that same window, then writes those
win rates into the table filter weights rank on - the selection set consumed
twice, undiscounted, while the deploy gate right next to it applies a
family-wise correction for exactly that effect. The rows are also simulated
triple-barrier outcomes at today's spread sharing a table with realised
fills. The completion log line now states both plainly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 21:25:51 -04:00
AnimateDread
64c5dd55d3 feat: implement one-shot pattern-database backfill and enhance accuracy tracking for ensemble models 2026-08-16 21:08:41 -04:00
AnimateDread
5a5be8999e fix(altdata): add late warning for alt data arrival after model build 2026-08-16 20:04:13 -04:00
AnimateDread
e049b624ba feat(ensemble): deploy gate on the COMBINED VOTE, with a joint checkpoint
The unit of evaluation in ensemble mode becomes the vote, because the
vote is what trades (user: "at the end of the day they will vote
together during live trading so that would make sense").

Four decisions move from the member to the ensemble:
  * which era is "best"    -> the era whose COMBINED VOTE scored best
  * what is checkpointed   -> a JOINT snapshot: every member's weights
                              at that one era
  * when the run gives up  -> one shared plateau ladder
  * whether it may deploy  -> family-wise gate on the vote

WHY THE JOINT CHECKPOINT IS THE POINT: per-member selection picks each
net's own best era, and those eras differ. The resulting quartet was
never measured together at any instant, so the vote it casts live is a
configuration no OOS number ever described. Capturing all four at the
era whose vote won makes the deployed ensemble exactly the measured one.

Correct because of the era barrier (b77e7b4): Train() runs at most one
era per call and a member that finished era N is held until every member
reaches N, so when the last member scores the vote no member's weights
have advanced past end-of-era-N. That makes the deferred simultaneous
capture a guarantee rather than a race. Each snapshot is era-STAMPED and
deploy requires every stamp to equal the winning era - otherwise a member
whose capture failed would still hold an older snapshot and the deployed
quartet would again be one nothing measured. Partial capture rolls the
era back out of "best" so the search continues instead of freezing
behind a checkpoint that does not exist.

Statistics mirror the per-member gate one for one - same coverage floor
(MIN_COVERAGE_FRACTION_OF_BASE_RATE), same always-call-one-direction
chance reference, same EDGE_MIN_SIGMAS margin, same Sidak correction over
the eras ranked (DEPLOY_FAMILY_WISE_ALPHA). Only the population differs:
the bars the VOTE fired on, at Min_Vote_Open, rather than the bars one
member called. Two-sidedness is required of the vote itself - a vote that
never goes short IS the always-long model the chance reference prices in.

Members keep their own per-era statistics and their own learning-rate
dynamics (regression restore, eta decay); those are per-net training
mechanics, not deployment decisions. The shared ladder is mirrored onto
each member so per-era log lines report the state that actually governs
them. Solo charts are untouched on every path.

Verified: full MetaEditor compile, 0 errors 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 19:25:25 -04:00
AnimateDread
b77e7b4766 fix(ensemble): responsive panel + synchronized eras + combined-vote accuracy
Four user-reported/requested items, one root cause chain:

1) DEAD CONTROL PANEL in AI_HYBRID mode. All members posted custom event
   id 1 and handled id 1001, and CExpertCustom broadcasts every chart
   event to every filter - so each posted event ran a train chunk in ALL
   N members (N*N chunks per round) and the chart thread never idled
   long enough to deliver clicks/drags. profiling.csv: 99.45% of time in
   OnChartEventHandler. Fix: per-instance study-event ids
   (STUDY_EVENT_ID_BASE + construction order, offset above the Controls
   library's ON_* codes - id 1 was also ON_DBL_CLICK, so panel
   double-clicks fired training chunks). ArmStudyEvent() is the single
   post site; lost-event watchdog replaces the accidental
   sibling-clears-my-flag rescue.

2) WARM-UP DUPLICATION. The auto-tune sweep is deterministic over
   identical features/labels, and it ends in the full MI diagnostic
   suite, which the MI-share gate never intercepted on the sweep path -
   four members ran four identical ~36s sweep+report blocks. First
   member publishes outcome (g_ensembleChartTuneDone/Installed/Settings);
   the rest apply it and skip both.

3) DEINIT STRANDED PANEL+ARROWS (user repro 18:52). Root cause from the
   log: the 4,500ms budget runs from MetaTrader's stop REQUEST - a heavy
   autosave in flight ate it, OnDeinit got ~430ms and died in the first
   member's arrow persist ("Abnormal termination" 432ms in). Fix: early
   visible-UI sweep (native prefix deletes for status/panel/dialog)
   right after ClearStatusLabel, and a fast path for still-training
   models - their arrows are re-rendered every era, so they get one bulk
   purge instead of scan+atomic-write in the death window.

4) ENSEMBLE FEATURES (user requests): era BARRIER - members advance era
   by era together; a member ahead of the slowest still-training member
   declines Train() calls and its chunk budget is donated
   (TRAIN_TIME_BUDGET_MS = 120/activeTrainers, UI headroom constant).
   COMBINED-VOTE OOS SCORE - each member's pass-3 scan contributes its
   adjusted per-bar decision (0.0 on abstain) to a shared row buffer;
   the last member to finish the era scores the averaged vote vs the
   mirrored Min_Vote_Open against the same target-before-stop outcomes
   members grade themselves on, publishing an "Ensemble vote" line on
   the aggregated panel. Member headlines now carry their lifetime win
   rate with break-even.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 19:06:04 -04:00
AnimateDread
65c4b1dce7 fix(ensemble): per-member arrow namespaces; ConvLSTM rename; dialog in purge list
The ensemble chart UI had a shared-namespace defect that answered the user
question "what do the arrows represent?" with "a bug": all four members drew
arrows under the same WarSig_<bartime> object names, so the chart showed
whichever member rendered LAST, one member Neutral deleted another member Buy
at the same bar, each member init sweep wiped the arrows the previous member
had just restored, and SaveChartSignals - which rebuilds the sidecar by
SCANNING the chart - persisted every other member arrows into its own history
(the exact cross-model laundering its own header warns about, now happening
BETWEEN ensemble members).

Arrows are now namespaced per member (WarSig_PAI_, WarSig_CONV_, WarSig_LSTM_,
WarSig_HYB_): draw, delete, restore, prune, member init sweep, destructor
purge and the sidecar scan are all member-scoped, and the tooltip names the
model. Global purges keep matching the bare WarSig_ prefix, which covers all
member namespaces plus old-format leftovers from earlier builds.

Labels: the ensemble panel header no longer says "HYBRID ensemble" (HYBRID is
one member; the header is the ensemble) and the CONVLSTM member displays as
ConvLSTM instead of Hybrid. Its SHORT id stays HYB deliberately - it names the
model folder and changing it would orphan every model trained under that path.

Deinit: the alt-data mapping dialog namespace (WarriorAltMap_) joins
WarriorChartPrefixes, so both the OnInit purge and the deinit final sweep now
cover it - it was in neither list, so a dialog starved of its own Destroy()
left its controls on the chart permanently.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 18:26:55 -04:00
AnimateDread
0788238c00 feat(inputs): unify ALL indicator periods under the tuner; EnableAltData input; AI-first defaults
- PeriodMA/MA_Type/PeriodRSI: input -> const seeds (closing the set: every
  indicator parameter is now tuner-owned)
- Variables\TunedPeriods.mqh: chart-level tuned-period state. A gated
  install writes TunedPeriods_{SYM}_{TF}.cfg; next attach reads it BEFORE
  the DB fingerprint and classic-signal config, so classic votes, DB key,
  and tuner seeds always describe the same indicators regardless of
  classic/AI/hybrid use. Restart-grained adoption by design (no mid-run
  handle churn); new periods re-key the signal DB (semantics rule).
- EnableAltData input in AI Input Features (consumption gate only;
  collection keeps running); |ALT DB-fingerprint token; opt-out on an
  alt-trained model correctly starts fresh via the width compare.
- Defaults: all four classic votes OFF (AI-first; WARRIOR_MARKET_BUILD
  branches collapsed with the marketplace pivot), order-flow/Wyckoff NN
  features OFF (alt data is the default information diet; toggles stay).

Compiles 0 errors / 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 15:12:54 -04:00
AnimateDread
31e16e9487 feat(tuner+altdata): tuner optimizes RANGE not direction; copy-paste whitelist UX on 4014
- MI_TUNE_TARGET = MI_TARGET_EXC_RANGE: the coordinate sweep scored
  candidates against the barrier label - measured noise - so it climbed a
  flat landscape and the gate rightly rejected every winner. It now
  selects indicator settings for MI vs realised RANGE (4x null, positive
  control), the channel the excursion head consumes these features for.
  Winner gate re-tests on the same target. Barrier-label report unchanged.
- AltDataFetch 4014 handling: Alert popup + once-per-session walkthrough
  with the two whitelist URLs on their own journal lines (copy-paste
  ready); hourly-backoff retry instead of a permanent latch, so the
  whitelist fix takes effect without re-attaching.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 14:44:11 -04:00
AnimateDread
8657c4fa12 feat(altdata): EA-side self-sufficient alt-data collection (WebRequest + OnTimer)
System\AltDataFetch.mqh: the EA backfills missing alt-data history at
attach and keeps appending forward while deployed - online learning never
depends on an external process. CFTC Socrata API (no key, 2006->now, one
GET per symbol; ES name variants verified, max-OI dedupe) + FRED (VIXCLS/
DTWEXBGS, key from AltData\keys.txt). Identical publication stamps and
fixed a-priori transforms as research/altdata/export.py; rebuilds the
same {SYM}_D1.csv files, so Python and EA interoperate on one format.
OnTimer hook (30-min staleness check, in-memory compares when current;
never in tester - cache files serve there) + AltDataReload() on signals.
Classic-signal removal CANCELLED per user (vote experiment later).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 13:59:03 -04:00
AnimateDread
8ce635ce70 feat(altdata): external feature block wired into the NN feature window
- System\AltData.mqh: CAltDataPanel - publication-stamped CSV panel
  (Common\Files\Warrior_EA\AltData\{SYM}_{TF}.csv), as-of lookup by bar
  open, 0-fill degradation (mirrors cross-asset), hourly live refresh
- Topology: width block AFTER the .cfg name-list pin is pre-read
  (ReadAltDataPinFromCfg) so a grown export can never mismatch a resumed
  model's width or shift its slots
- Persistence: alt pin appended to the .cfg (append-and-length-guard
  convention), adopt-don't-compare on load
- Features: emit block after Wyckoff SBI; EnsureFresh probe in
  BuildFeatureWindow (never fires in tester)
- export.py: fixed a-priori scale constants (never data-fitted)

Widths change SP500 +4 / USDJPY +3 / XAUUSD +1 (fingerprint re-keys ->
fresh models on redeploy); EURUSD exports nothing and resumes unchanged.
Compiles 0 errors / 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 13:39:00 -04:00
AnimateDread
430cdbe650 feat(ai): conditional barrier geometry for the fractal target - MFE/MAE measured leg-by-leg at labeled bars
The derived stop/target were quantiles of EVERY bar''s excursions over a
fixed horizon - q75 adverse gave a 2.6-3.5*ATR stop against a ~1.7*ATR
target (user: "looks limiting"). That pooled measurement was correct
when direction was dead (any subset of bars had the same distribution)
and is provably mis-sized now that the gate certifies the label carries
information: the bars the model trades are the labeled bars, and their
excursions differ from the pool.

FractalDirectionLabel now records, for every Buy/Sell-labeled IS bar
during the prebuild, the favourable and adverse travel in ATR units
over exactly the LEG the label points at - entry close through the next
fractal extreme (user request: "from a fractal to the next for maximum
accuracy"). DeriveBarrierGeometry reads the same q75-adverse/q50-
favourable quantiles off that conditional sample instead of the pool,
with a logged fallback to pooled when fewer than the minimum legs
exist. Quantiles kept over averages deliberately: a mean MFE is
dominated by runaway legs and would set an unreachable target.

No circularity: the fractal label does not depend on SL/TP (the barrier
label does - this path must never feed it). Recording stops the moment
geometry is derived and pinned, so pass 2 relabels and later bars
cannot silently re-shape a certified pair.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 19:00:40 -04:00
AnimateDread
a734b91e80 feat(ui): one aggregated status panel for the AI_HYBRID ensemble
All four ensemble members previously wrote their full multi-line panels
to the SAME global label objects - an ensemble chart would flicker
between four stacked panels covering the chart side (user request:
aggregate). Every AI-side SetStatusLabel call site now routes through
CExpertSignalAIBase::PublishStatus - solo charts draw the full panel
exactly as before; an ensemble member claims a slot and contributes
only its HEADLINE to one combined block ("HYBRID ensemble - N models",
then one line per model; the live line leads with the model current
signal). The combined render skips unchanged text and enforces its own
minimum redraw interval so four publishers cannot multiply
ChartRedraw() cost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 16:54:43 -04:00
AnimateDread
609be10391 feat(ai): AI_HYBRID = ensemble preset (all NNs, one chart); conv+recurrent renamed AI_CONVLSTM
The user is right that no special combination logic is needed: the AI
signals are ordinary voting filters, and the aggregate already has
union semantics - abstaining filters do not dilute the average, so an
ensemble chart trades whenever ANY deployed member clears the vote
threshold and disagreeing members net out. What the ensemble preset
actually adds:

- AI_CHOICE value 4 renamed AI_CONVLSTM (the name says the front-end);
  enum VALUES stable, CSignalHYBRID class and State\HYBRID\ folder kept,
  so saved configs and trained models keep their identity.
- New AI_HYBRID = 6: enables PAI+CONV+LSTM+CONVLSTM together on one
  chart - replaces four separate charts of the same symbol. Each member
  trains and self-gates independently; only certified members ever vote.
- |ENS1 fingerprint token on every member, so an ensemble member's
  weight files can never collide with a solo model of identical
  settings on another chart of the same symbol (the duplicate-chart
  guard would otherwise correctly fight over one .nnw).
- Private default AIType = AI_HYBRID: one D1 drop now yields every
  topology's gate verdict for that symbol.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 16:50:36 -04:00
AnimateDread
61a8c42a9c feat(ai): TrainingTarget input - fractal-direction label for the direction models
User direction (2026-08-15): back to predicting swing turns, D1 charts,
fractals over ZigZag pivots (their call - balances classes, matches the
reference library target, and a 5-bar fractal confirms 2 bars after its
extreme so labels resolve nearly to the present with no repaint embargo).

- TRAINING_TARGET enum + TrainingTarget input: TARGET_BARRIER (Market
  default - existing models keep their meaning and fingerprints) or
  TARGET_FRACTAL (private default).
- FractalDirectionLabel (Labels.mqh): per-bar 3-class label = direction
  from the bar close to the next confirmed strict 5-bar fractal extreme,
  costs charged in the same bid-series convention as the barrier label,
  Neutral when the move cannot clear max(2 spreads, 0.10 ATR) or on an
  outside bar (both-extreme bars are unorderable within OHLC).
- The barrier walk still runs in full: measured SL/TP geometry, the
  expectancy scan, excursion caches and the era gate all keep scoring
  what a trade at the EA's own stop/target actually collected - only the
  TRAINING label changes. NOT the pre-b4a704d "is this bar the pivot"
  form; that target's 31:1 imbalance stays retired.
- Fingerprint token |TGT:FRA1 so switching targets trains a separate
  model; AI_META unaffected (guarded setter).
- Private defaults: AIType back to AI_HYBRID (direction topology needed)
  + TrainingTarget=TARGET_FRACTAL = drop-on-D1-chart workflow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-15 04:44:10 -04:00
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
36e8463310 refactor: derive history bars for input sequences and update related configurations 2026-08-11 21:53:37 -04:00
AnimateDread
923addf574 feat: pin the cross-asset pair set train->serve + warm the sync at init
The reference-pair set was re-discovered from Market Watch on every
build, so adding or removing a terminal symbol silently changed what a
trained model's six cross-asset features meant - the last open
train/serve parity gap from the 2026-08-11 audit. The set a model's
FIRST successful build actually used is now stamped into its .cfg
(append-and-length-guard, adopt-don't-compare - the derived-barrier
pattern) and every later build constructs the panel from exactly that
list; a pinned pair that is temporarily unavailable is skipped, never
substituted.

Also warms SymbolSelect/SeriesInfo for every reference symbol at
InitNeuralNetwork, so the terminal's ~minute of async cross-symbol
download starts at init instead of when the first Build() trips over
an unselected symbol - the source of the startup 'only 0 usable
reference pairs' console failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 21:29:14 -04:00
AnimateDread
bd1037975a fix: the trailing incumbent read the future across eras; cold AD blocks cached zeros as truth
Three findings from the 2026-08-11 audit:

1. The excursion head's trailing-quantile ring was deliberately never cleared
   between eras ("a rolling estimate of the market, not of the era") - but
   pass 3 re-walks the SAME OOS window every era, so at each walk's restart
   the ring still held the outcome masks of the newest OOS bars from the
   previous walk: the chronological FUTURE of the bars about to be scored.
   For the first ~window+horizon pushes of every era the "trailing" incumbent
   was partly a leading one - conservative for the gate (an informed incumbent
   is a harder hurdle) but exactly the self-made-artifact class 06d4785 hunts.
   The ring now clears at era-score reset; the warm-up bars simply don't score
   the trail race, which the m_excTrailN gating already accounts for.

2. skillTrail compared the head's FULL-block Brier (pro-rated by coverage)
   against the incumbent's subset sum - valid only if head skill is uniform
   across the OOS walk, while the trail-scored subset systematically excludes
   each era's warm-up bars. The audit also found m_excBrierHeadD/BaseD/
   m_excOosHitsD declared, zeroed and never accumulated (dead since e2c9593
   made every scored bar disjoint). The dead trio is replaced by
   m_excBrierHeadT: the head's Brier accumulated only on the bars the warm
   incumbent also scored, so the race now compares both predictors on an
   identical bar set.

3. The AD/Wyckoff feature blocks read GetData with no EMPTY_VALUE guard; a
   cold (still-calculating) indicator returns EMPTY_VALUE everywhere, the
   sanitize loop rewrote that to 0.0, and the bar SUCCEEDED - so
   BufferTempData cached an all-zero Wyckoff block as a success for the whole
   bar frame: the one path the f6150ee only-cache-successes rule cannot see,
   because it never fails (the ba13eef class, arriving through values that
   never fail; a resumed model's era-0 prebuild starts milliseconds after
   OnInit). ADIndicatorCold() probes the NEWEST bar - EMPTY_VALUE there means
   async warm-up (transient reject, retried), while deep bars beyond the
   buffered depth keep the sanitize loop's neutral-fill so degraded history
   still trains. Also fixed m_featureCacheValid's declaration comment, which
   still described the pre-f6150ee cached-miss semantics.

Compile: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 18:20:24 -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
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
345a672500 fix: purge every EA object namespace on init and after deinit teardown
Leftover objects survived deinit because the cleanup list had drifted.
PurgeChart()'s own comment said it removed "our namespaced signal arrows
plus the status-label objects" while the code removed arrows ONLY, and
the panel prefix was swept at OnInit and nowhere else - so an ordinary
deinit left the status line, and any panel straggler, on the chart.

Three scattered call sites and a comment cannot be kept in step. There is
now ONE list - WarriorChartPrefixes() - covering arrows, status label and
panel, and one sweep, WarriorPurgeChartObjects(), used by every path.
Add a prefix there when a new object family appears and every cleanup
picks it up.

Two call sites added:

  OnInit, before ANYTHING is drawn (including the status label it would
  otherwise delete). Chart objects live in the chart PROFILE, not in the
  EA, so they outlive the process: a deinit force-terminated at
  MetaTrader's ~4,500 ms budget, a crash, a terminal kill, or an .ex5
  replaced while attached all strand objects no later deinit will ever
  own - and deleting the EA's files does not remove them, which is why
  they read as corruption. Arrows are included: LoadChartSignals restores
  them from their sidecar moments later and already opens with its own
  arrow sweep, so this only removes orphans the sidecar does not account
  for - the ones SaveChartSignals would otherwise ADOPT, since it rebuilds
  that sidecar by scanning the chart.

  OnDeinit, after ExtPanel.Destroy. Destroy walks an unbounded control
  tree and ClearStatusLabel clears text rather than guaranteeing object
  removal; either can leave a straggler and nothing looked afterwards.
  Bounded work - three prefix deletes and one object-list scan - so it
  respects the ordering rule that keeps the cheap visible cleanup ahead
  of the heavy save. Arrows excluded: ShutdownChartCleanup already
  persisted and removed them and re-deleting would race that write.

The two are complementary: the deinit sweep closes the ordinary case, the
OnInit purge closes the case where MetaTrader never let us finish. Only
the second can help after a starved shutdown.

Both sweeps rescan by name across EVERY object type and delete what the
bulk call missed. ObjectsDeleteAll's return has already been observed
disagreeing with a by-name scan of the same chart microseconds apart, and
object commands are queued on the chart rather than applied inline, so a
returned count is not evidence the objects are gone.

Panel create site now uses WARRIOR_PANEL_PREFIX instead of a literal, so
the name cannot drift away from the list that cleans it up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 16:19:26 -04:00
AnimateDread
4cfbb82634 feat: race the excursion head against a trailing-quantile incumbent
Beating a frozen global constant is the weakest admissible bar for
replacing a global constant. The honest incumbent is a rolling rung
frequency: it adapts to the volatility regime - exactly what the head
claims to predict - and needs no model, no 760 inputs and no training.

Implemented as a ring of per-bar outcome bitmasks (32 rungs fit one
ulong), sized horizon + EXCURSION_TRAIL_WINDOW. The newest `horizon`
entries are held back UNRESOLVED: a bar's rung outcomes are only known
one horizon later, so using them would be lookahead and would flatter the
incumbent into an opponent the head could never fairly beat. Pass 3 walks
oldest-to-newest, so "pushed more than horizon bars ago" is exactly
"resolved by now". Each push is O(rungs), not O(window).

The head's decision-rung Brier is pro-rated to the trailing estimate's
coverage before the ratio, since the incumbent only scores bars where its
window is warm.

This line is worth reading on its own, independently of the head: if the
trailing quantile beats the global constant, that is a cheap risk-control
win available with no machine learning at all - and it is the same number
either way, so the run answers both questions in one pass.

The ring is deliberately NOT reset per era - it estimates the market, not
the era, and re-warming 500 bars every era would leave the incumbent
unusable over the first chunk of every scoring pass, handing the head a
free win on exactly those bars.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 15:57:11 -04:00
AnimateDread
06d4785e39 fix: the excursion gate would have passed Stage 2 on an artifact I made
Second-opinion review killed the +4.2% far-rung result, correctly, and
the mechanism is my own bug. A head trained toward {0.05,0.9} converges
to 0.05+0.85p, so its bias is 0.05-0.15p: negative where p is near 1,
POSITIVE where p < 1/3, growing monotonically as the rung gets farther.
Against a baseline frozen at the IS rate, an upward-biased head scores
positive Brier skill whenever the OOS rate merely sits above the IS rate.
Predicted signature: huge negatives near, ~zero at p=1/3, growing
positives far. Observed: -82% ... -0.6% ... +1.2/+2.7/+4.2. The far rungs
were not the clean end of a distorted measurement, they were the other
face of the same artifact. Everything before 25aca83 is void.

The gate was a bare `skill >= 2%` point estimate over 8 rungs x 4
topologies x N eras, reported per era - a best-of-~300 with no interval
and no multiplicity control, which is the shape of the four traps already
documented here. It now needs FOUR things at once:

  DECISION RUNGS  only the rungs ExcursionQuantile actually reads at the
                  live geometry (target 1.62, stop 3.31 ATR), fixed
                  before looking. Skill at 5 ATR is skill about a
                  distance no order is placed at - and the TARGET side
                  currently interpolates 1.5/2.0, which measured -2.2%
                  and -1.3%.
  DISJOINT SAMPLE one bar per horizon. Adjacent bars share 63 of 64
                  horizon bars, so ~16k scored bars is ~250 independent
                  ones and every SE over the full set is ~8x understated.
  VS ORACLE       the best constant achievable ON THE SCORED BLOCK,
                  closed form from H and n (Brier = H*(1-H/n)). A head
                  that learned only a LEVEL nearer the OOS rate than the
                  frozen IS constant scores positive against the old
                  baseline and <= 0 here. This is the control that
                  separates per-bar skill from base-rate drift.
  MONOTONE CURVE  P(reach k) must be non-increasing in k. Nothing
                  constrained 8 independent sigmoids to obey that, and
                  ExcursionQuantile returns the FIRST crossing - so a
                  tangled curve is misread exactly where the head is
                  least sure. Counted and reported, not silently used.

The pass message now also states what a pass would and would not buy:
expectancy is -costs at zero directional edge whatever the stop distance,
and under prop DD limits LOWER variance also lowers P(reach target before
limit), so "better drawdown" is a choice of failure mode, not a win.

Still owed before any Stage 2: a race against a trailing-quantile
incumbent and a vol-feature logistic. Beating a frozen global constant is
the weakest admissible bar for replacing a global constant.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 15:49:32 -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
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
ece2154102 fix: flush the in-flight era on shutdown; sweep orphaned chart objects on attach
Chart objects live in the MT5 chart PROFILE, not in this EA's files.
They survive a terminal restart, a recompile, and deleting every
.nnw/.cfg/.stats/.arrows on disk. Only a deinit that RUNS TO COMPLETION
removes them - and MetaTrader force-terminates OnDeinit at roughly
4,500 ms, so a run killed mid-cleanup orphans them permanently with no
owner left to clean up after. That is the "deleted every file,
recompiled, restarted, old arrows and a stale panel still there"
report: nothing was wrong with the files and deleting them could not
have helped.

Both halves are fixed.

STOP OVERRUNNING THE BUDGET. OnDeinit used to finalise the in-flight
run (StopTraining -> FinalizeTrainRun: checkpoint restore, live-state
re-seed) and then write two full nets per chart. On four charts that is
the bulk of the budget, spent to preserve a PARTIAL era that was never
scored, never checkpointed and never deployable. FlushTrainRun()
discards it instead - drop the resumable bookkeeping, leave the net
neutral (unfreeze BN, flush the batch, batch size 1), skip the save -
and training resumes from the last completed era, which the era-end
save and the periodic autosave have already put on disk. What is
discarded is bounded by one era.

A CONVERGED model keeps the old finalise-and-save path: its weights can
carry online-learning updates made since the last era boundary, and for
a deployed model no further era boundary is coming to persist them.

MAKE CLEANUP SELF-HEALING. Every purge sat behind a branch - no model
loaded, sidecar missing - so the common paths returned leaving whatever
the previous instance stranded. LoadChartSignals now sweeps the arrow
namespace unconditionally before restoring, so the post-init chart
holds exactly what the sidecar holds whichever branch runs, and the
panel gets the same treatment before Create() (CAppDialog namespaces
its controls, so a killed Destroy strands the lot and the next attach
draws a second panel on the corpse).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 13:08:40 -04:00
AnimateDread
320f13253f feat: first-passage ladder + expectancy scan - price every geometry, not just the chosen one
Corrects the premise of the previous plan. Break-even is NOT a ceiling.
If the model shifts the win probability on the bars it selects from
p0 = m/(m+k) to p0 + d, then

  EV = (p0+d)*k - (1-p0-d)*m = d*(k+m)

because p0*k - (1-p0)*m is zero by construction. The stop:target RATIO
is expectancy-neutral - a punishing break-even is exactly repaid by the
payoff - and only the real edge d and the TOTAL WIDTH (k+m) move EV.
Width matters because the spread is charged once per trade however wide
the barriers are, so a narrow barrier spends much of its own range on
costs. DeriveBarrierGeometry's own comment already said the ratio buys
nothing; the objective just never followed from it.

Blocker this had to solve first: m_excUpCache/m_excDownCache hold only
MAXIMUM travel each way, and a maximum cannot say which side was
reached FIRST - so any geometry other than the walked one was
undecidable on precisely the bars where both barriers were touched,
~28% of the sample.

- BARRIER_LADDER: per bar, the first-touch AGE for 8 travel distances
  in each direction, filled during the walk the labels already run.
  Cursors keep it O(1) amortised per walked bar rather than 16
  comparisons. Levels are travel FROM ENTRY, not barrier prices, so one
  ladder serves both directions and the spread is applied analytically
  when a level converts back to an SL/TP multiple - storing prices
  would need four ladders and bake today's spread into the cache.
  Sized, invalidated and validity-gated with the label caches.
- ReportGeometryExpectancyScan: every ladder pair priced exactly off
  that cache - width in ATR and in SPREADS (cost efficiency, knowable
  without knowing d), break-even, both base rates, the share of bars
  resolved inside the horizon, and EV per unit of edge. Compares the
  widest resolvable pair against the quantile rule's pick.

MEASUREMENT ONLY - the quantile rule still chooses. Nothing here can
measure d, and width buys nothing if the wider target is less
predictable. Base rates are printed beside each break-even because a
persistent gap is DRIFT and must not be credited to the model.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 12:59:18 -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
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.

Both build variants compile 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.

Both build variants compile 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 07:32:08 -04:00