jgrusewski 7b6641e038 docs(design): phase-1 inventory — gems/pearls/novels for env unification
Extends the reward inventory with a review pass that preserves the
*ideas* behind behavioral terms while deleting the wrong-level mechanics.

Gems (relocate, don't delete):
- Probabilistic fill model (real physics, not shaping) → apply in both
  modes via shared Philox RNG + exploration_scale
- Kelly-as-physics-constraint → hard position-size cap in trade_physics,
  not a soft reward
- Path quality via per-step drawdown integration → no separate term,
  just run drawdown penalty every bar
- Saboteur relocation → both modes, scaled by exploration_scale (training
  1.0, validation 0.5, diagnostic 0.0) — avoids creating a new clean-vs-
  noisy mismatch in the opposite direction

Pearls:
- Sparse reward is fine if TD propagation works — diagnose before
  deleting micro_reward_scale; measure cov(Q(s_entry,a), trade_return)
- Every behavioral term maps to one of four failure modes: double-count,
  misplaced physics, wrong-level regularization, or compensating for a
  downstream bug. None are semantically "neutral" shaping.

Novel architectural moves:
- Diagnostic-only entropy tracking (no reward, just HEALTH_DIAG
  logging)
- Single exploration_scale scalar replacing all mode toggles
  (feedback_no_feature_flags compliant)
- Layered reward with per-term budget caps — makes the train/val Sharpe
  gap computable instead of uncomputable magic
- Q-target smoothing replacing reward_noise_scale (regularization at
  gradient level, not reward level)

Updated disposition table: 4 DELETE, 2 MOVE, 2 RELOCATE-to-physics,
1 DIAGNOSE-then-DELETE, 4 delete-dead-plumbing.

Three relocations (Kelly cap, saboteur scaling, Q-target smoothing) can
land as independent PRs before the unified_env_kernel rewrite, shrinking
Phase 2's change surface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-21 00:31:58 +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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