jgrusewski fc0a8a7966 docs(design): phase-1 reward inventory for env unification
Enumerates every term that contributes to training or validation reward,
classifies each as P&L-aligned (keeper) or behavioral (remover), with
source line references into experience_kernels.cu and backtest_env_kernel.cu.

Findings:
- 7 P&L-aligned terms to preserve in the unified env (core return,
  tx_cost, drawdown, inventory, churn, capital floor, + vol normalization)
- 8 active behavioral training-only terms to delete:
  * order_credit_weight  (rewards theoretical limit-order savings,
    double-counts actual tx_cost)
  * risk_efficiency_weight  (double-counts drawdown asymmetrically)
  * urgency_credit_weight  (redundant with core return)
  * kelly_sizing_weight  (rewards matching a formula, not outcomes)
  * micro_reward_scale  (OFI-momentum signal follower)
  * commitment_lambda  (triple-counts churn)
  * reward_noise_scale  (belongs at gradient level, not reward level)
  * position_entropy_weight  (changes what "optimal" means)
- 4 dormant/dead terms to clean up (w_dsr, exit_timing, ofi_reward,
  opp_cost_scale — all plumbing with no kernel effect)

Biggest offenders by magnitude: urgency_credit and risk_efficiency can
dominate the core signal on a single positioned bar.

Phase 2 (unified_env_kernel implementation) can now proceed with a
concrete deletion list, not a judgment call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-21 00:28:15 +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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