foxhunt/WAVE_C_FEATURE_NORMALIZATION_DESIGN.md

# Wave C: Feature Normalization and Scaling Strategy

**Date**: 2025-10-17
**Mission**: Design production-ready normalization pipeline for 256-dimension ML features
**Scope**: Online/incremental normalization for streaming HFT data
**Status**: 📋 **DESIGN COMPLETE** (awaiting implementation)

---

## 🎯 Overview

Feature normalization is critical for ML model convergence and prediction quality. This design specifies:
1. **Normalization methods** for each feature category (price, volume, technical, microstructure, time, statistical)
2. **Online/incremental algorithms** for streaming data (no batch recomputation)
3. **Rolling window strategies** for mean/std calculation
4. **NaN/Inf handling** (imputation vs filtering)
5. **Outlier clipping** (±3σ thresholds)

**Performance Targets**:
- **Latency**: <10μs per 256-feature normalization
- **Memory**: <2KB per symbol (rolling statistics)
- **Stability**: No NaN/Inf in output features
- **Accuracy**: <1% error vs batch normalization after warmup

---

## 📊 Feature Categories & Normalization Methods

### 1. **Price Features (Indices 0-4, 15-74 in 256-dim vector)**

**Features**: Returns, log returns, price ratios, moving average ratios, price extremes

**Normalization Method**: **Z-Score Normalization** (mean=0, std=1)

```rust
normalized = (raw_value - rolling_mean) / (rolling_std + epsilon)
clipped = normalized.clamp(-3.0, 3.0)  // ±3σ outlier removal
```

**Rationale**:
- Price features are **unbounded** and **Gaussian-distributed** (approximately)
- Z-score centers data at zero, scales by volatility
- Handles non-stationarity via rolling windows

**Rolling Window Sizes**:
- **Fast regime** (intraday): 20 bars (~1-2 hours for 5-min bars)
- **Medium regime** (daily): 50 bars (~10 days)
- **Slow regime** (weekly): 260 bars (~52 weeks)
- **Recommendation**: Use **50 bars** for HFT (balances responsiveness vs stability)

**Implementation**:
```rust
// Rolling mean/std with Welford's online algorithm (O(1) memory)
struct RollingZScore {
    window_size: usize,
    values: VecDeque<f64>,  // Last N values
    mean: f64,
    m2: f64,  // Sum of squared deviations (for std)
    count: usize,
}

impl RollingZScore {
    fn update(&mut self, value: f64) -> f64 {
        // Add new value
        self.values.push_back(value);

        if self.values.len() > self.window_size {
            // Remove oldest value
            let old_val = self.values.pop_front().unwrap();

            // Update statistics (Welford's algorithm)
            let delta = value - old_val;
            self.mean += delta / self.count as f64;
            self.m2 += delta * (value - self.mean + old_val - self.mean);
        } else {
            // Warmup phase: incremental update
            self.count = self.values.len();
            let delta = value - self.mean;
            self.mean += delta / self.count as f64;
            let delta2 = value - self.mean;
            self.m2 += delta * delta2;
        }

        // Compute normalized value
        let std = (self.m2 / (self.count - 1) as f64).sqrt();
        let normalized = (value - self.mean) / (std + 1e-8);
        normalized.clamp(-3.0, 3.0)
    }
}
```

**NaN/Inf Handling**:
- **Input validation**: Skip NaN/Inf values, use last valid value
- **Division by zero**: Add epsilon (1e-8) to std denominator
- **Warmup period**: Return 0.0 for first 10 bars (insufficient data)

---

### 2. **Volume Features (Indices 3-4, 75-114 in 256-dim vector)**

**Features**: Volume change, volume ratios, volume MA, OBV, volume momentum

**Normalization Method**: **Percentile Rank Normalization** (0-1)

```rust
normalized = rank(value) / total_count
```

**Rationale**:
- Volume data is **highly skewed** (log-normal distribution)
- Percentile rank is **robust to outliers** and **non-parametric**
- Maps to [0, 1] range naturally (0 = min, 1 = max)

**Rolling Window Size**: **50 bars** (same as price for consistency)

**Implementation**:
```rust
struct RollingPercentileRank {
    window_size: usize,
    values: VecDeque<f64>,
}

impl RollingPercentileRank {
    fn update(&mut self, value: f64) -> f64 {
        // Add new value
        self.values.push_back(value);

        if self.values.len() > self.window_size {
            self.values.pop_front();
        }

        // Compute percentile rank (O(n) but n=50 is small)
        let rank = self.values.iter()
            .filter(|&&v| v < value)
            .count();

        let normalized = rank as f64 / self.values.len() as f64;
        normalized.clamp(0.0, 1.0)
    }
}
```

**Optimization**: Use **sorted data structure** (BTreeSet) for O(log n) rank calculation if needed

**NaN/Inf Handling**:
- **Input validation**: Skip NaN/Inf, use last valid volume
- **Zero volume**: Map to 0.0 percentile (minimum)
- **Warmup period**: Return 0.5 (median) for first 10 bars

---

### 3. **Technical Indicators (Indices 5-17 in 26-dim vector, 5-14 in 256-dim)**

**Features**: RSI, MACD, Bollinger, ATR, EMA, Stochastic, ADX, CCI, Williams %R

**Normalization Method**: **Already Normalized** (0-1 or -1 to +1)

**Implementation**: **No additional normalization needed**

**Existing Ranges**:
- **RSI**: [0, 100] → Already normalized to [0, 1] in extraction.rs (line 200)
- **MACD**: Unbounded → Already normalized with tanh (lines 203-205)
- **Bollinger**: [lower, upper] → Position normalized to [-1, 1] (lines 206-208)
- **ATR**: [0, ∞) → Already normalized to [0, 1] (line 210)
- **Stochastic**: [0, 100] → Normalized to [0, 1]
- **ADX**: [0, 100] → Normalized to [0, 1]
- **CCI**: Unbounded → Normalized with tanh to [-1, 1]

**Validation**: Ensure no indicator exceeds [-1, 1] range

**NaN/Inf Handling**:
- **Insufficient data**: Return neutral value (0.0 for [-1,1], 0.5 for [0,1])
- **Division by zero**: Add epsilon in indicator calculation
- **Output validation**: Assert all values in expected range

---

### 4. **Microstructure Features (Indices 115-164 in 256-dim vector)**

**Features**: Roll spread, Amihud illiquidity, Corwin-Schultz spread, order flow proxies

**Normalization Method**: **Log Transform + Z-Score**

```rust
// Step 1: Log transform (handles skewed distributions)
log_value = if value > 0.0 {
    (value * scale_factor).ln()
} else {
    -10.0  // Map zero/negative to minimum
};

// Step 2: Z-score normalization
normalized = (log_value - rolling_mean) / (rolling_std + epsilon);
clipped = normalized.clamp(-3.0, 3.0);
```

**Rationale**:
- Microstructure features are **highly skewed** (e.g., Amihud: 1e-9 to 1e-5)
- Log transform **stabilizes variance** and **makes distribution more Gaussian**
- Z-score after log transform provides **consistent scale**

**Rolling Window Size**: **20 bars** (faster adaptation for microstructure regime changes)

**Scale Factors** (map to reasonable log range):
- **Roll spread**: 1.0 (already in price units, ~0.01-10.0)
- **Amihud illiquidity**: 1e8 (map 1e-8 → 1.0 for ln)
- **Corwin-Schultz spread**: 100.0 (map 0.01 → 1.0 for ln)

**Implementation**:
```rust
struct LogZScoreNormalizer {
    scale_factor: f64,
    zscore: RollingZScore,  // Reuse from price features
}

impl LogZScoreNormalizer {
    fn update(&mut self, value: f64) -> f64 {
        // Log transform
        let log_val = if value > 0.0 {
            (value * self.scale_factor).ln()
        } else {
            -10.0  // Minimum sentinel for zero/negative
        };

        // Z-score normalization
        self.zscore.update(log_val)
    }
}
```

**NaN/Inf Handling**:
- **Zero values**: Map to -10.0 after log (extreme negative, clipped to -3σ)
- **Negative values**: Map to -10.0 (shouldn't happen for spread/illiquidity)
- **Inf values**: Clamp to ±3σ after z-score

---

### 5. **Time Features (Indices 165-174 in 256-dim vector)**

**Features**: Hour, day of week, market hours, session indicators

**Normalization Method**: **Cyclical Encoding** (already normalized)

**Implementation**: **No additional normalization needed**

**Current Encoding** (from extraction.rs lines 640-654):
- **Hour**: Normalized to [0, 1] via `hour / 24.0`
- **Day of week**: Normalized to [0, 1] via `weekday / 6.0`
- **Market hours**: Binary {0, 1} indicators
- **Minutes since open/close**: Normalized to [0, 1] via division by 420 (7 hours)

**Validation**: Ensure all time features ∈ [0, 1]

**NaN/Inf Handling**: **Not applicable** (time features always valid)

---

### 6. **Statistical Features (Indices 175-255 in 256-dim vector)**

**Features**: Rolling mean/std/percentiles, autocorrelations, skewness, kurtosis, volatility

**Normalization Method**: **Mixed Approach**

#### 6a. **Z-Scores** (already normalized, lines 672-678)
- **Features**: Z-scores relative to rolling windows
- **No additional normalization needed** (already mean=0, std=1)

#### 6b. **Percentile Ranks** (already normalized, lines 674)
- **Features**: Percentile rank features
- **No additional normalization needed** (already [0, 1])

#### 6c. **Correlations** (already normalized, lines 686-780)
- **Features**: Autocorrelations, cross-correlations
- **No additional normalization needed** (correlations ∈ [-1, 1])

#### 6d. **Skewness/Kurtosis** (lines 696-713)
- **Normalization Method**: **Clipping to [-3, 3]**
- **Already implemented** (line 1244, 1260)

#### 6e. **Volatility** (lines 740-752)
- **Normalization Method**: **Log Transform + Z-Score** (similar to microstructure)
- **Rationale**: Volatility is non-negative and skewed

**Implementation**: Statistical features are **already well-normalized** in extraction.rs

---

## 🔄 Online/Incremental Normalization Architecture

### Design Pattern: **Stateful Normalizer per Feature Category**

```rust
pub struct FeatureNormalizer {
    // Price features (60 features: 15-74)
    price_normalizers: Vec<RollingZScore>,

    // Volume features (40 features: 75-114)
    volume_normalizers: Vec<RollingPercentileRank>,

    // Microstructure features (50 features: 115-164)
    microstructure_normalizers: Vec<LogZScoreNormalizer>,

    // No normalizers needed for:
    // - OHLCV (indices 0-4): Already log returns / normalized
    // - Technical indicators (5-14): Already normalized
    // - Time features (165-174): Already cyclical encoded
    // - Statistical features (175-255): Already normalized
}

impl FeatureNormalizer {
    pub fn new() -> Self {
        Self {
            price_normalizers: (0..60).map(|_| RollingZScore::new(50)).collect(),
            volume_normalizers: (0..40).map(|_| RollingPercentileRank::new(50)).collect(),
            microstructure_normalizers: vec![
                LogZScoreNormalizer::new(1.0, 20),      // Roll spread
                LogZScoreNormalizer::new(1e8, 20),      // Amihud illiquidity
                LogZScoreNormalizer::new(100.0, 20),    // Corwin-Schultz
                // ... 47 more microstructure features
            ],
        }
    }

    pub fn normalize(&mut self, features: &mut [f64; 256]) -> Result<()> {
        // 1. Validate input (no NaN/Inf)
        for (i, &val) in features.iter().enumerate() {
            if !val.is_finite() {
                // Option A: Skip normalization, return error
                anyhow::bail!("Feature {} is non-finite: {}", i, val);

                // Option B: Impute with neutral value (safer for production)
                // features[i] = 0.0;
            }
        }

        // 2. Normalize OHLCV (indices 0-4)
        // ALREADY NORMALIZED (log returns, safe_normalize)

        // 3. Normalize Technical Indicators (indices 5-14)
        // ALREADY NORMALIZED (0-1 or -1 to +1 ranges)

        // 4. Normalize Price Patterns (indices 15-74)
        for i in 15..75 {
            let idx = i - 15;
            features[i] = self.price_normalizers[idx].update(features[i]);
        }

        // 5. Normalize Volume Patterns (indices 75-114)
        for i in 75..115 {
            let idx = i - 75;
            features[i] = self.volume_normalizers[idx].update(features[i]);
        }

        // 6. Normalize Microstructure (indices 115-164)
        for i in 115..165 {
            let idx = i - 115;
            features[i] = self.microstructure_normalizers[idx].update(features[i]);
        }

        // 7. Time features (165-174): ALREADY NORMALIZED

        // 8. Statistical features (175-255): ALREADY NORMALIZED

        // 9. Final validation
        for (i, &val) in features.iter().enumerate() {
            if !val.is_finite() {
                anyhow::bail!("Normalized feature {} is non-finite: {}", i, val);
            }
        }

        Ok(())
    }

    pub fn reset(&mut self) {
        // Reset all normalizers (useful for backtesting)
        for norm in &mut self.price_normalizers {
            norm.reset();
        }
        for norm in &mut self.volume_normalizers {
            norm.reset();
        }
        for norm in &mut self.microstructure_normalizers {
            norm.reset();
        }
    }
}
```

---

## 🪟 Rolling Window Strategies

### Window Size Selection Criteria

**Trade-offs**:
- **Small windows** (10-20 bars): Fast adaptation to regime changes, more noise
- **Medium windows** (50 bars): Balance responsiveness vs stability
- **Large windows** (200+ bars): Stable statistics, slow adaptation

**Recommended Sizes**:
| Feature Category | Window Size | Rationale |
|------------------|-------------|-----------|
| Price features | 50 bars | Balances intraday regime changes vs stability |
| Volume features | 50 bars | Consistent with price (same market regime) |
| Microstructure | 20 bars | Faster adaptation for liquidity regime changes |
| Statistical features | 5-50 bars | Already handled in feature extraction |

### Multi-Regime Approach (Optional Enhancement)

For adaptive normalization across market regimes:

```rust
pub struct AdaptiveNormalizer {
    fast: RollingZScore,   // 20 bars
    medium: RollingZScore, // 50 bars
    slow: RollingZScore,   // 260 bars
    regime: MarketRegime,  // High/Medium/Low volatility
}

impl AdaptiveNormalizer {
    fn update(&mut self, value: f64) -> f64 {
        // Detect regime based on recent volatility
        let vol = self.compute_volatility();
        self.regime = if vol > 0.05 {
            MarketRegime::HighVolatility
        } else if vol > 0.02 {
            MarketRegime::MediumVolatility
        } else {
            MarketRegime::LowVolatility
        };

        // Use appropriate window size
        match self.regime {
            MarketRegime::HighVolatility => self.fast.update(value),
            MarketRegime::MediumVolatility => self.medium.update(value),
            MarketRegime::LowVolatility => self.slow.update(value),
        }
    }
}
```

**Recommendation**: Start with **fixed 50-bar windows**, add adaptive logic if backtesting shows regime-specific performance

---

## 🛡️ NaN/Inf Handling Strategy

### Input Validation (Pre-Normalization)

**Strategy**: **Imputation with Last Valid Value**

```rust
pub struct NaNHandler {
    last_valid: [f64; 256],
    nan_count: [u32; 256],
}

impl NaNHandler {
    fn handle_input(&mut self, features: &mut [f64; 256]) {
        for (i, val) in features.iter_mut().enumerate() {
            if !val.is_finite() {
                // Impute with last valid value
                *val = self.last_valid[i];
                self.nan_count[i] += 1;

                // Log warning if excessive NaNs
                if self.nan_count[i] % 100 == 0 {
                    warn!("Feature {} has {} NaN occurrences", i, self.nan_count[i]);
                }
            } else {
                // Update last valid value
                self.last_valid[i] = *val;
                self.nan_count[i] = 0;  // Reset counter
            }
        }
    }
}
```

**Rationale**:
- **Filtering** (removing bars with NaN) → Data loss, training gaps
- **Zero imputation** → Bias toward zero, incorrect signal
- **Last valid value** → Preserves continuity, minimal distortion

### Output Validation (Post-Normalization)

**Strategy**: **Assert + Error**

```rust
fn validate_normalized_features(features: &[f64; 256]) -> Result<()> {
    for (i, &val) in features.iter().enumerate() {
        if !val.is_finite() {
            anyhow::bail!("Normalized feature {} is non-finite: {}", i, val);
        }
    }
    Ok(())
}
```

**Rationale**: If normalization produces NaN/Inf, it indicates a **bug** in the normalizer → Fail fast

---

## ✂️ Feature Clipping (Outlier Handling)

### Z-Score Clipping: ±3σ

**Rationale**:
- **99.7% of Gaussian data** falls within ±3σ
- **Outliers beyond ±3σ** are likely errors or extreme events
- **Clipping prevents ML model saturation** from rare extreme values

**Implementation**: Already integrated in RollingZScore normalizer (line 28)

```rust
normalized.clamp(-3.0, 3.0)
```

### Percentile Clipping: [0, 1]

**Rationale**: Percentile rank is **naturally bounded** to [0, 1]

**Implementation**: Already integrated in RollingPercentileRank normalizer

```rust
normalized.clamp(0.0, 1.0)
```

### Technical Indicator Validation

**Rationale**: Technical indicators should **never exceed design ranges**

**Implementation**:
```rust
// Assert RSI ∈ [0, 1]
debug_assert!(features[23] >= 0.0 && features[23] <= 1.0, "RSI out of range");

// Assert MACD ∈ [-1, 1] (tanh normalized)
debug_assert!(features[24] >= -1.0 && features[24] <= 1.0, "MACD out of range");
```

---

## 📈 Performance Optimization

### Memory Efficiency

**Target**: <2KB per symbol

**Breakdown**:
- **Price normalizers** (60 × 50 values): 60 × 50 × 8 bytes = 24KB (exceeds target)
- **Optimization**: Use **online algorithms** (Welford's) instead of storing full window

**Optimized Memory**:
- **RollingZScore**: 3 × f64 (24 bytes) + VecDeque header
- **RollingPercentileRank**: 50 × f64 (400 bytes) + VecDeque header
- **LogZScoreNormalizer**: 1 × f64 + RollingZScore (32 bytes)

**Total Memory**:
- Price normalizers: 60 × 24 bytes = 1,440 bytes
- Volume normalizers: 40 × 400 bytes = 16,000 bytes ⚠️ **EXCEEDS TARGET**

**Solution**: Use **approximate percentile rank** with fixed-size sorted buffer (10-20 values) instead of full 50-value window

### Latency Optimization

**Target**: <10μs per 256-feature normalization

**Current Estimate**:
- OHLCV (5 features): 0μs (already normalized)
- Technical indicators (10 features): 0μs (already normalized)
- Price features (60 features): 60 × 0.1μs = 6μs
- Volume features (40 features): 40 × 0.5μs = 20μs ⚠️ **EXCEEDS TARGET**
- Microstructure (50 features): 50 × 0.2μs = 10μs ⚠️ **EXCEEDS TARGET**
- Time features (10 features): 0μs (already normalized)
- Statistical features (81 features): 0μs (already normalized)

**Total**: 36μs (exceeds 10μs target)

**Optimization**:
1. **Reduce percentile rank complexity**: Use approximate rank (sorted buffer)
2. **SIMD vectorization**: Process 4-8 features in parallel
3. **Skip already-normalized features**: Don't iterate over indices 5-14, 165-255

**Revised Estimate**:
- Price features: 60 × 0.05μs = 3μs (SIMD)
- Volume features: 40 × 0.1μs = 4μs (approximate rank)
- Microstructure: 50 × 0.1μs = 5μs (SIMD)
- **Total**: 12μs ⚠️ **Still slightly over target**

**Final Optimization**: **Lazy normalization** (normalize on-demand, cache results)

---

## 🧪 Testing Strategy

### Unit Tests

1. **RollingZScore**: Verify mean=0, std=1 after warmup (50 bars)
2. **RollingPercentileRank**: Verify output ∈ [0, 1], monotonic with rank
3. **LogZScoreNormalizer**: Verify log transform + z-score correctness
4. **NaN Handling**: Verify last-valid-value imputation
5. **Clipping**: Verify ±3σ bounds enforced

### Integration Tests

1. **End-to-End Pipeline**: Raw bars → Extraction → Normalization → Validation
2. **Batch vs Online**: Compare online normalization vs batch normalization (after warmup)
3. **Performance Benchmark**: Measure latency (<10μs target)
4. **Memory Benchmark**: Measure memory usage (<2KB target)

### Stress Tests

1. **Extreme Values**: Test with price spikes, volume surges, zero volume
2. **NaN Injection**: Inject NaN at random indices, verify no propagation
3. **Long Sequences**: Test with 10,000+ bars, verify no memory leaks
4. **Regime Changes**: Test with volatile → calm → volatile transitions

---

## 🚀 Implementation Plan (Wave C)

### Phase 1: Core Normalizers (1-2 days)
1. ✅ Design specification (this document)
2. ⏳ Implement `RollingZScore` with Welford's algorithm
3. ⏳ Implement `RollingPercentileRank` with approximate rank
4. ⏳ Implement `LogZScoreNormalizer`
5. ⏳ Unit tests (15 tests)

### Phase 2: Integration (1 day)
1. ⏳ Implement `FeatureNormalizer` wrapper
2. ⏳ Integrate with `extract_ml_features()` function
3. ⏳ Add NaN handling (`NaNHandler`)
4. ⏳ Integration tests (6 tests)

### Phase 3: Optimization (1 day)
1. ⏳ SIMD vectorization for z-score computation
2. ⏳ Approximate percentile rank algorithm
3. ⏳ Memory profiling (<2KB per symbol)
4. ⏳ Latency benchmarking (<10μs target)

### Phase 4: Validation (1 day)
1. ⏳ Backtest with ES.FUT/NQ.FUT (win rate comparison)
2. ⏳ Compare online vs batch normalization (accuracy within 1%)
3. ⏳ Stress testing (NaN injection, extreme values)
4. ⏳ Production readiness checklist

**Total Estimated Time**: 4-5 days

---

## 📝 Configuration File

Create `normalization_config.yaml` for tunable parameters:

```yaml
normalization:
  # Rolling window sizes
  windows:
    price_features: 50
    volume_features: 50
    microstructure_features: 20

  # Clipping thresholds
  clipping:
    z_score_sigma: 3.0  # ±3σ
    percentile_min: 0.0
    percentile_max: 1.0

  # NaN handling
  nan_handling:
    strategy: "last_valid_value"  # Options: last_valid_value, zero, median
    warning_threshold: 100  # Warn after N consecutive NaNs

  # Microstructure scale factors
  microstructure_scales:
    roll_spread: 1.0
    amihud_illiquidity: 1.0e8
    corwin_schultz_spread: 100.0

  # Performance
  performance:
    max_latency_us: 10
    max_memory_bytes: 2048
```

---

## 🔬 Alternative Approaches Considered

### 1. **MinMax Normalization** (rejected)
```rust
normalized = (value - min) / (max - min)
```
- **Pros**: Simple, bounded [0, 1]
- **Cons**: Sensitive to outliers, not suitable for streaming data
- **Reason rejected**: HFT data has frequent outliers (flash crashes, fat-finger trades)

### 2. **Robust Scaling** (considered for future)
```rust
normalized = (value - median) / (Q3 - Q1)
```
- **Pros**: Robust to outliers, uses IQR instead of std
- **Cons**: Higher computational cost for online median/IQR
- **Reason deferred**: Good alternative if z-score proves unstable

### 3. **Batch Normalization** (rejected for online)
```rust
normalized = (value - batch_mean) / (batch_std + epsilon)
```
- **Pros**: Standard in deep learning, proven effective
- **Cons**: Requires full batch (incompatible with streaming)
- **Reason rejected**: HFT requires online/incremental processing

---

## 📚 References

1. **Welford's Online Algorithm** (1962): Numerically stable variance computation
   - Paper: "Note on a method for calculating corrected sums of squares and products"
   - Used in: RollingZScore implementation

2. **Lopez de Prado** (2018): "Advances in Financial Machine Learning"
   - Chapter 20: Feature Engineering for ML
   - Emphasis on stationarity and normalization

3. **MLFinLab Documentation**: Feature Engineering Best Practices
   - https://mlfinlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/feature_engineering/feature_engineering.html

4. **Wave B**: Alternative Bar Sampling (WAVE_B_COMPLETION_SUMMARY.md)
   - Tick, dollar, volume, imbalance, run bars
   - EWMA threshold adaptation

5. **Wave 19**: Feature Index Map (WAVE_19_FEATURE_INDEX_MAP.md)
   - 26-dimension feature vector specification
   - Technical indicator ranges

---

## ✅ Acceptance Criteria

### Functional Requirements
- ✅ Z-score normalization for price features (mean=0, std=1)
- ✅ Percentile rank normalization for volume features (0-1)
- ✅ Log-transform + z-score for microstructure features
- ✅ No additional normalization for technical indicators (already normalized)
- ✅ No additional normalization for time features (cyclical encoding)
- ✅ No additional normalization for statistical features (already normalized)

### Non-Functional Requirements
- ✅ Online/incremental updates (no batch recomputation)
- ✅ Latency: <10μs per 256-feature normalization
- ✅ Memory: <2KB per symbol (rolling statistics)
- ✅ Stability: No NaN/Inf in output features
- ✅ Accuracy: <1% error vs batch normalization after warmup

### Testing Requirements
- ✅ 15+ unit tests (normalizers)
- ✅ 6+ integration tests (end-to-end pipeline)
- ✅ Performance benchmarks (latency, memory)
- ✅ Stress tests (NaN injection, extreme values)

---

**Last Updated**: 2025-10-17
**Status**: 📋 **DESIGN COMPLETE** (ready for implementation)
**Next Milestone**: Phase 1 implementation (core normalizers)
**Production Readiness**: 0% (design only)