jgrusewski 050407dbd5 fix: 3 critical findings — state blindness, cold-start, reward scaling
Finding 1: STATE BLINDNESS — Q-network couldn't see risk
  Portfolio features expanded from 3 (useless: pv/pv≈1, cash/pv≈1) to 8:
  position, unrealized_pnl/equity, drawdown, hold_time/100, realized_pnl/equity,
  distance_to_floor, trade_return, cash_ratio.
  PORTFOLIO_DIM 3→8 across all NVRTC injection sites.
  State dim: 48→56 (without OFI), 56→64 (with OFI).

Finding 2: Q-GAP COLD-START — model couldn't trade to learn
  Q-gap threshold ramps linearly from 0.0 to target over first 10 epochs.
  At epoch 0, all Q-values ≈ 0 → Q-gap < threshold → no trades → no signal.
  Added current_epoch field to DQNTrainer.

Finding 3: TRADE REWARD SCALING — idle penalty dominated trade signal
  trade_return scaling: ×100 → ×1000 (1 ES tick = 0.36 reward, was 0.036).
  idle penalty max: 0.05 → 0.01 (was competing with 1-tick trade reward).
  Now: trade reward (0.36) >> idle penalty (0.01). Correct incentive.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-23 10:13:27 +01:00

Foxhunt

Production HFT trading system in Rust.

Architecture

The workspace contains 32 crates organized as follows:

Core Libraries (16)

Crate Purpose
trading_engine Order processing, FIX 4.4, IB TWS, SIMD, RDTSC timing
risk VaR, Kelly, circuit breakers, kill switches, compliance
risk-data Risk data types and shared structures
trading-data Trading data types
ml DQN Rainbow, PPO, TFT, Mamba2, ensemble inference
ml-data ML data types and feature definitions
data Market data ingestion and storage
backtesting Replay engine, strategy tester
adaptive-strategy Ensemble execution, microstructure analysis
common Shared types, resilience, error handling
storage S3 and local model storage
model_loader Model serialization and loading
market-data Market data feed handlers
database PostgreSQL access layer (SQLx)
config Configuration management
tli CLI commands and tooling

Services (8)

Service Purpose
backtesting_service gRPC backtesting service
broker_gateway_service FIX routing, broker connectivity
trading_service Core trading operations
ml_training_service Model training orchestration
data_acquisition_service Market data acquisition
trading_agent_service Autonomous trading agents
api_gateway gRPC API gateway with auth
web-gateway Axum REST + WebSocket gateway

Frontend

web-dashboard/ -- React 19 + TypeScript + Vite + TradingView charts.

Building

# Check compilation (no PostgreSQL required)
SQLX_OFFLINE=true cargo check --workspace

# Run tests for a specific crate
SQLX_OFFLINE=true cargo test -p <crate> --lib

# Clippy
SQLX_OFFLINE=true cargo clippy --workspace

ML Models

Four production model architectures on Candle v0.9.1 with CUDA:

  • DQN Rainbow -- Deep Q-Network with prioritized replay, dueling heads, noisy nets
  • PPO -- Proximal Policy Optimization with GAE and LSTM policies
  • TFT -- Temporal Fusion Transformer for multi-horizon forecasting
  • Mamba2 -- State space model for sequence prediction

Each model has a standalone trainer and a UnifiedTrainable adapter for the hyperopt pipeline.

Infrastructure

  • Git: Gitea at git.fxhnt.ai (Tailscale-only), Scaleway DEV1-S
  • Observability: OpenTelemetry OTLP (env OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT)
  • Database: PostgreSQL with SQLx offline mode for CI

License

Proprietary. All rights reserved.

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