The stability penalty (15% of PSO objective) was dead weight:
- Gradient norm threshold of 20,000 NEVER fires because gradient
clipping is at 10.0 and avg raw grad norms are typically 5-50.
- Q-value std threshold of 100 rarely fires with DSR and v_range=[10,50].
Fix: log-scale ramp for gradient (threshold=50, cap=3.0) gives smooth
PSO gradient across the 50→5000 range where clip engagement indicates
instability. Linear ramp for Q-std (threshold=15, cap=3.0).
Also: delete unused smooth_transition() + calculate_exponential_sharpe_incentive()
(-160 lines dead code), fix stale docstring on HFT activity fn args.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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