Smoke n59t4 (commit 691dec144, root-cause NaN/Inf fix) revealed 96
trades/sec at decision_stride=4 — decisions fire every ~4ms while
orders take 200ms to fill. Controller makes decisions on phantom
in-flight positions; stops fire against positions that haven't
materialized yet. At $0.25 round-trip cost × 96 trades/sec, fee burn
is $86k/hour.
Architectural mismatch: decision_stride should be >= latency_ns /
event_dt_ns. At 200ms latency and ~1ms/event, stride=200 means
decisions fire every ~200ms — once per latency cycle. Resulting
~10k decisions over 2M events is the natural cadence for the
deployment anchor.
Not a controller bug. The controller logic (NaN-clean per Task 15)
is correct; the smoke config was tuned for sub-millisecond latency
that doesn't match the 200ms Scaleway PAR → IBKR anchor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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