Phase 1 — Infrastructure:
- RiskMgmt_RISK_PER_TRADE 0.5% → 1.5% (vbt_backtest.py)
- min_monthly_return_pct=15% acceptance filter (strategy_orchestrator)
- --min-monthly-return 15 CLI option (nexquant.py)
- {{ min_monthly_return }}% in strategy prompts
- MIN_MONTHLY_RETURN_PCT=15.0 in gen_strategies_real_bt + smart_strategy_gen
- realistic_backtest_all.py target_monthly 4→15%
Phase 2 — Factor quality:
- IC thresholds: prompt 0.05→0.08, bandit IC weight 0.10→0.20
- Explicite IC > 0.04 target in RAG prompt
- min_ic filters: data_loader 0.0→0.04, strategy_worker 0.02→0.04, ml_trainer 0.01→0.04
Architecture fix — Daily signal resampling:
- Factors have IC at daily resolution, but z-scores on 1-min collapse IC to ~0
- Resample factors to daily before strategy exec, ffill signal to 1-min for backtest
- Walk-forward IS years 3→1 (only 2 years of data available)
- Removed broken intersection() logic that destroyed 99.99% of 1-min data
- ffill stale propagation limited to 2880 bars (2 trading days)
- Fixed logger crash in _load_strategies
- Preflight: removed constant-signal check (false positive on random sandbox data)
- Tests: test_daily_signal_resampling.py (8 tests)
Non-negotiable rules: R1-R10 in AGENTS.md
Added explicit rules to prevent KeyError failures:
- Column names must use $ prefix: $close, $open, $high, $low, $volume
- DO NOT use groupby() for simple calculations
- Examples of correct and incorrect code
- This should reduce retry cycles from 10-20 to 1-2 per factor
Expected speedup: ~8 factors/h → ~50+ factors/h
- Fix daily/1min contradiction in factor_experiment_loader prompts
- Rename daily_pv.h5 to intraday_pv.h5 (generate.py, utils.py, README)
- Fix FactorDatetimeDailyEvaluator to accept 1min bars as correct
- Add _write_run_log() to log every factor attempt to results/logs/
- Add _ensure_results_dirs() to create all result directories
- Extract all 44 prompt YAML files to prompts/ centralized directory
- Add prompts/INDEX.md for navigation
Tests: 93 passed
New structure:
- prompts/standard_prompts.yaml: Default prompts (committed to Git)
- prompts/local/: Your improved prompts (NOT in Git!)
- prompts/README.md: Documentation
- rdagent/components/loader.py: Prompt loader with priority
Features:
- Loader checks prompts/local/ first (your better prompts)
- Falls back to standard_prompts.yaml if no local version
- Supports sections (system/user)
- Lists available prompts
- Test function included
.gitignore updated:
- prompts/local/ excluded (your proprietary prompts)
- *.local.yaml excluded
- *_private.yaml excluded
Usage:
from rdagent.components.loader import load_prompt
prompt = load_prompt('factor_discovery') # Auto-loads your better version!
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