jgrusewski fe24987690 fix(crt-a2.1): clamp conviction-EMA rescale to [0, 1] — never amplify weak signals
Gate 1 catastrophic failure (smoke vjmwc, commit 3d8f12deb):
  - 62× hyperactivity (157,470 trades vs 2,511 baseline)
  - 9,347% max-drawdown ($327M loss on $3.5M base)
  - Sharpe -15.63 (2.4× worse than baseline)

Root cause: A2's formula
    final_size *= (conv_ema / raw_max_conv)
amplified weak signals because EMA tracks the MEAN of raw_max_conv, NOT a
running max as the author's comment claimed. When raw_max_conv < conv_ema
(normal during quiet periods between strong signals), the multiplier was
> 1, blowing up small-signal positions:
  raw=0.05, ema=0.3 → 6× amplification
  raw=0.01, ema=0.3 → 30× amplification

Fix: clamp scale ∈ [0, 1] in BOTH decision_policy_default and
decision_policy_program (OP_WRITE_ORDER). Only damp when raw is stronger
than EMA (scale < 1); never amplify when raw is weaker (scale capped at 1).

Math:
  scale = conv_ema / raw_max_conv     // can be 0..∞
  scale_clamped = min(scale, 1.0)     // can only be 0..1
  final_size *= scale_clamped

Test: conviction_ema_rescale_never_amplifies_weak_signal validates
target_lots stays ≤ 1 when alpha=0.51 (raw_conv=0.02) after EMA warmup
at alpha=0.7 (ema~=0.4). Without the clamp the broken multiplier is 20×.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-20 19:38:50 +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

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Building

# Check compilation (no PostgreSQL required)
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  • 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

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