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The rules that trade for you — and how they are allowed to change

One page, three answers: what is running today, how a change earns its place, and what has been decided so far. Every figure comes from the sealed record.

What trades for you today

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Every change is proven on the recorded history first and never goes live on its own.

How the rules are allowed to change

Nobody edits the rules by hand. A change has to pass four steps, always with the market closed.

  1. A proposal is written

    A new version of the rules is drafted. Nothing about the live desk changes yet.

  2. It is replayed on the history

    The new rules are run over every recorded trading day, exactly as the current rules were, on the same data.

  3. A blind exam

    The most recent fifth of the history is kept aside during the work. The new rules must do better than the current ones there, where nothing was tuned.

  4. Only then does it go live

    If the blind exam is passed by a clear margin, the version is approved and switched on. If not, the record says so and nothing changes.

Never up for change: one operation a day, never overnight, 1% of the account at risk, 100% cash at the close.

What is happening now

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What has been decided so far

Every decision, newest first, sealed in the same tamper-evident record as the live executions.

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What changed in the procedure itself, release by release, with each release's lifecycle: candidate, validated, active, rolled back.

  • Order routing & partial fills

    Before (v1.2.0)
    Limit at Bid + 25% of the spread, no partial-fill handling
    After (v1.3.0)
    Limit at Bid + min(40% of spread, 0.15 × ATR M1) with a 20 s timeout; below 30% filled the residual is cancelled and flattened, above it the reduced size is kept with stop/target re-cut to the exact quantity and a protective OCO
    Benefit on the parameters
    No position ever left unprotected after a partial fill; entry price anchored to live volatility
  • Sizing on settled liquidity

    Before (v1.2.0)
    Risk base on equity with a nominal $10k / 50% account cap
    After (v1.3.0)
    R = min(settled cash, equity) × tier (1% / 1.25% / 1.5%), utilisation up to 100%, notional never above settled capital
    Benefit on the parameters
    Per-trade risk consistent with capital actually available, no implicit leverage
  • Structural stop

    Before (v1.2.0)
    Fixed percentage stop per tier, blind to the breakout bar
    After (v1.3.0)
    max(tier cap, min(breakout bar low, VWAP − 0.05%)) with a 0.8 × ATR M15 floor; quantity = floor(notional / price)
    Benefit on the parameters
    Stop below the level that invalidates the setup, never inside the noise
  • Runner, stagnation and halts

    Before (v1.2.0)
    Trail on the M15 low; fixed 65-minute stagnation; no halt handling
    After (v1.3.0)
    Trail = max(stop, highest high since entry − 1.5 × ATR M15, previous M15 low), up only; stagnation 50 min (entry before 10:15 NY) or 75 min; full freeze during halt/LULD
    Benefit on the parameters
    Profit protected along the trend, capital freed earlier, no order touched while the tape is frozen
  • Event and liquidity guards

    Before (v1.2.0)
    Intermarket macro filter and index VWAP gate only
    After (v1.3.0)
    Earnings blackout NVDA/AMD/TSLA, −5/+10 min lockout around FOMC/CPI/NFP, gap > 1.2 × daily ATR refused, ask depth ≥ 3× the ticket, RVOL-T 09:30–09:45 NY over 20 sessions
    Benefit on the parameters
    Entries only under measurable conditions; binary events stay out of the book
  • Statistical validation

    Before (v1.2.0)
    Deflated Sharpe Ratio with a fixed K = 8 trials
    After (v1.3.0)
    Dynamic K = max(50, min(150, real calibration cycles)); promotion only with DSR > 0.95 and ΔR ≥ +0.05R
    Benefit on the parameters
    Anti-overfitting filter scaled to the number of trials actually run

Check it yourself

The outcomes and the sealed record are public and can be verified independently.