jgrusewski 7ed4e5ca90 fix: reward v6 — ATR vol proxy, tanh squash, loss aversion ordering, remove double penalty
Five reward computation fixes in experience_env_step CUDA kernel:

1. Replace CUSUM vol proxy with ATR(14): CUSUM at feature[41] is a binary
   direction indicator [-1,1,0], NOT volatility. When CUSUM≈0, vol_proxy
   became 0.0001 causing 10000x reward amplification. ATR(14) at feature[9]
   is actual realized volatility — reverse the safe_normalize encoding
   (ln(atr)+7)/16 to recover atr_pct = exp(norm*16-7) / price.

2. Move loss aversion BEFORE squash: previously applied after hard clamp,
   creating asymmetric [-15, +10] range making expected reward negative
   even for fair strategies. Now applied pre-squash for smooth asymmetry.

3. Replace hard clamp with tanh soft squash: fmaxf(-10, fminf(10, reward))
   destroyed tail information (1% and 5% wins both → 10.0). tanh preserves
   that larger wins produce proportionally larger rewards.

4. Remove turnover penalty: the 0.05*|delta|/max_position penalty double-
   counted transaction costs already deducted from cash via Almgren-Chriss
   impact model at line ~679, over-penalizing necessary rebalancing.

5. Clarify CUSUM spread_scale usage: CUSUM at feature[41] is correctly used
   as market-stress proxy for spread widening in tx cost computation — this
   is distinct from the (now-fixed) vol proxy for reward normalization.

Also: annotate min_hold_bars=5 as hyperopt candidate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-25 01:42:41 +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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