jgrusewski 74b9d092ad feat(surfer): Phase 1 RL-gate — no rich signal set; RL not justified (+ resid-mom upgrade)
Tested 5 theoretically-distinct new crypto signals (residual-momentum, MAX/lottery,
idiosyncratic-vol, Amihud-illiquidity, acceleration) on PIT top-50 with full gauntlet
(OOS/CPCV/deflation/coin-bootstrap) + correlation to momentum. NO new DISTINCT validated
signal: survivors = momentum + residual-momentum (corr 0.95 = same edge). Others fail
(lottery/accel negative; ivol/amihud fail bootstrap-robustness, amihud closest miss
corr+0.20/boot0.75). DECISIVE: validated signal set is thin (one alpha + VRP diversifier)
-> RL/PPO has no rich interacting set to combine -> would not beat the linear baseline OOS
-> don't build the RL (the falsifiable gate returns NO; avoids the 65th-commit trap).
SMALL WIN: residual (beta-stripped) momentum +0.72 > raw +0.57 -- better base construction.
Product = simple two-sleeve book. RL needs non-price signals to ever justify itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-06 18:36:21 +02:00

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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