Expand chronological signal audit

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Theodore Song
2026-08-18 09:50:46 -04:00
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@@ -47,9 +47,12 @@ clean live comparison.
Run `npm run evaluate:signals` to test the price-signal rules against one month
of hourly Polymarket history. The evaluator forms signals only from prior
one-hour, one-day, and one-week prices, marks them 12 hours later, applies a
conservative half-cent cost estimate, and reports a chronological 70/30 split.
Set `EVAL_MARKETS` or `EVAL_CONCURRENCY` to change the default 80-market run.
one-hour, one-day, and one-week prices, marks them 6, 12, 24, and 72 hours later,
applies a conservative half-cent cost estimate, and reports a chronological
70/30 split plus three consecutive time segments. Results are also clustered by
market so repeated observations from one contract cannot masquerade as broad
evidence. Set `EVAL_MARKETS`, `EVAL_CONCURRENCY`, `EVAL_HORIZONS`, or
`EVAL_COST_CENTS` to change the audit.
The first 80-market audit found that reversal signals lost 4.34% on average in
both chronological partitions, while crypto and longshot samples were also
negative overall. Engine v37 therefore blocks reversal entries outside the fixed
@@ -57,6 +60,13 @@ negative overall. Engine v37 therefore blocks reversal entries outside the fixed
It does not boost any rule from this audit because no positive rule was robust
across the chronological split.
A corrected 200-market audit paged through 197 markets with usable history and
1,912 twelve-hour outcomes. Reversals remained negative in every chronological
segment and averaged -4.13%. Sports trends were negative in train and test and
averaged -3.53% at 72 hours. Politics trends were the sole cohort with positive
row-level returns in all three 72-hour segments, but its market-cluster interval
still crossed zero; that supports a longer hold test, not a larger entry bet.
Paper accounts created with a password are also saved through the backend, so a
user can log in from another device and see the same paper portfolio, activity,
and value history. Passwordless paper accounts remain local-only.
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@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
const GAMMA = "https://gamma-api.polymarket.com";
const CLOB = "https://clob.polymarket.com";
const MARKET_LIMIT = Math.max(10, Math.min(200, Number(process.env.EVAL_MARKETS || 80)));
const MARKET_LIMIT = Math.max(10, Math.min(500, Number(process.env.EVAL_MARKETS || 80)));
const CONCURRENCY = Math.max(1, Math.min(12, Number(process.env.EVAL_CONCURRENCY || 6)));
const HORIZONS = [...new Set(String(process.env.EVAL_HORIZONS || "6,12,24,72").split(",")
.map(Number).filter((value) => Number.isFinite(value) && value >= 1 && value <= 168))].sort((a, b) => a - b);
const COST_CENTS = Math.max(0, Math.min(5, Number(process.env.EVAL_COST_CENTS || 0.5)));
const HOUR = 3600;
const CATEGORY_RULES = [
@@ -102,21 +105,26 @@ function evaluateMarket(market, points) {
if (bucket === previousBucket || current.p < 0.08 || current.p > 0.92) continue;
const signal = signalAt(points, index);
if (!signal) continue;
const future = atOrAfter(points, current.t + 12 * HOUR);
if (!future || future.t - (current.t + 12 * HOUR) > 3 * HOUR) continue;
const entry = signal.side === "YES" ? current.p : 1 - current.p;
const exit = signal.side === "YES" ? future.p : 1 - future.p;
const fadeEntry = signal.side === "YES" ? 1 - current.p : current.p;
const fadeExit = signal.side === "YES" ? 1 - future.p : future.p;
if (entry <= 0.02 || entry >= 0.98) continue;
const grossReturn = exit / entry - 1;
const netReturn = grossReturn - 0.005 / entry;
const fadeNetReturn = fadeEntry > 0.02 && fadeEntry < 0.98 ? fadeExit / fadeEntry - 1 - 0.005 / fadeEntry : null;
outcomes.push({ marketId: market.id, question: market.question, category: market.category,
type: signal.type, side: signal.side, band: priceBand(entry), entry, exit,
grossReturn, netReturn, fadeNetReturn, hourMove: signal.hourMove, dayMove: signal.dayMove, weekMove: signal.weekMove,
observedAt: current.t, evaluatedAt: future.t });
previousBucket = bucket;
let captured = false;
for (const horizonHours of HORIZONS) {
const future = atOrAfter(points, current.t + horizonHours * HOUR);
if (!future || future.t - (current.t + horizonHours * HOUR) > 3 * HOUR) continue;
const exit = signal.side === "YES" ? future.p : 1 - future.p;
const fadeExit = signal.side === "YES" ? 1 - future.p : future.p;
const grossReturn = exit / entry - 1;
const netReturn = grossReturn - (COST_CENTS / 100) / entry;
const fadeNetReturn = fadeEntry > 0.02 && fadeEntry < 0.98
? fadeExit / fadeEntry - 1 - (COST_CENTS / 100) / fadeEntry : null;
outcomes.push({ marketId: market.id, question: market.question, category: market.category,
type: signal.type, side: signal.side, band: priceBand(entry), entry, exit, horizonHours,
grossReturn, netReturn, fadeNetReturn, hourMove: signal.hourMove, dayMove: signal.dayMove, weekMove: signal.weekMove,
observedAt: current.t, evaluatedAt: future.t });
captured = true;
}
if (captured) previousBucket = bucket;
}
return outcomes;
}
@@ -127,13 +135,26 @@ function median(values) {
}
function summarize(rows, field = "netReturn") {
if (!rows.length) return { count: 0, mean: 0, median: 0, winRate: 0, worst: 0, best: 0 };
if (!rows.length) return { count: 0, markets: 0, mean: 0, median: 0, winRate: 0, worst: 0, best: 0, marketMean: 0, lower90: 0, upper90: 0 };
const returns = rows.map((row) => row[field]).filter(Number.isFinite);
if (!returns.length) return { count: 0, mean: 0, median: 0, winRate: 0, worst: 0, best: 0 };
return { count: rows.length,
if (!returns.length) return { count: 0, markets: 0, mean: 0, median: 0, winRate: 0, worst: 0, best: 0, marketMean: 0, lower90: 0, upper90: 0 };
const marketBuckets = new Map();
rows.forEach((row) => {
const value = row[field];
if (!Number.isFinite(value)) return;
const bucket = marketBuckets.get(row.marketId) || [];
bucket.push(value); marketBuckets.set(row.marketId, bucket);
});
const marketReturns = [...marketBuckets.values()].map((values) => values.reduce((sum, value) => sum + value, 0) / values.length);
const marketMean = marketReturns.reduce((sum, value) => sum + value, 0) / Math.max(1, marketReturns.length);
const variance = marketReturns.length > 1
? marketReturns.reduce((sum, value) => sum + (value - marketMean) ** 2, 0) / (marketReturns.length - 1) : 0;
const margin90 = 1.645 * Math.sqrt(variance / Math.max(1, marketReturns.length));
return { count: returns.length,
mean: returns.reduce((sum, value) => sum + value, 0) / returns.length,
median: median(returns), winRate: returns.filter((value) => value > 0).length / returns.length,
worst: Math.min(...returns), best: Math.max(...returns) };
worst: Math.min(...returns), best: Math.max(...returns), markets: marketReturns.length,
marketMean, lower90: marketMean - margin90, upper90: marketMean + margin90 };
}
function grouped(rows, key) {
@@ -144,8 +165,17 @@ const RULES = [
{ name: "follow_all", field: "netReturn", test: () => true },
{ name: "follow_trend", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" },
{ name: "follow_trend_no", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && row.side === "NO" },
{ name: "follow_trend_yes", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && row.side === "YES" },
{ name: "follow_trend_mid", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && row.band === "mid" },
{ name: "follow_trend_favorites", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && ["favorite", "heavy-favorite"].includes(row.band) },
{ name: "follow_trend_non_longshot", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && row.band !== "longshot" },
{ name: "follow_strong_trend", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && Math.abs(row.dayMove) >= 0.015 && Math.abs(row.weekMove) >= 0.03 },
{ name: "follow_moderate_trend", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && Math.abs(row.dayMove) <= 0.03 && Math.abs(row.weekMove) <= 0.10 },
{ name: "follow_hour_confirmed_trend", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && Math.sign(row.hourMove) === Math.sign(row.dayMove) },
...["Politics", "Sports", "Crypto", "Economy", "Pop Culture", "Other"].map((category) => ({
name: `follow_trend_${category.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, "_")}`, field: "netReturn",
test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && row.category === category,
})),
{ name: "follow_reversal", field: "netReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "reversal" },
{ name: "fade_trend", field: "fadeNetReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" },
{ name: "fade_trend_yes_move", field: "fadeNetReturn", test: (row) => row.type === "trend" && row.side === "YES" },
@@ -156,9 +186,48 @@ function evaluateRules(rows) {
return Object.fromEntries(RULES.map((rule) => [rule.name, summarize(rows.filter(rule.test), rule.field)]));
}
const params = new URLSearchParams({ active: "true", closed: "false", archived: "false", include_tag: "true",
limit: String(MARKET_LIMIT), order: "volume24hr", ascending: "false" });
const rawMarkets = await fetchJson(`${GAMMA}/markets?${params}`);
function chronologicalEvaluation(rows) {
const ordered = [...rows].sort((a, b) => a.observedAt - b.observedAt);
const splitTime = ordered[Math.floor(ordered.length * 0.70)]?.observedAt || 0;
const train = ordered.filter((row) => row.observedAt < splitTime), test = ordered.filter((row) => row.observedAt >= splitTime);
const cut1 = ordered[Math.floor(ordered.length / 3)]?.observedAt || 0;
const cut2 = ordered[Math.floor(ordered.length * 2 / 3)]?.observedAt || 0;
const thirds = [ordered.filter((row) => row.observedAt < cut1),
ordered.filter((row) => row.observedAt >= cut1 && row.observedAt < cut2),
ordered.filter((row) => row.observedAt >= cut2)];
const thirdRules = thirds.map(evaluateRules), pooled = evaluateRules(ordered);
const robustRules = Object.fromEntries(RULES.map((rule) => {
const segments = thirdRules.map((result) => result[rule.name]);
const enoughData = segments.every((segment) => segment.count >= 20 && segment.markets >= 5);
const allPositive = enoughData && segments.every((segment) => segment.mean > 0 && segment.marketMean > 0);
const allNegative = enoughData && segments.every((segment) => segment.mean < 0 && segment.marketMean < 0);
return [rule.name, { enoughData, allPositive, allNegative,
minimumSegmentMean: Math.min(...segments.map((segment) => segment.mean)),
maximumSegmentMean: Math.max(...segments.map((segment) => segment.mean)), pooled: pooled[rule.name] }];
}));
return { splitTime: splitTime ? new Date(splitTime * 1000).toISOString() : null,
trainCount: train.length, testCount: test.length, train: evaluateRules(train), test: evaluateRules(test),
thirds: thirdRules, robustRules };
}
async function fetchActiveMarkets(limit) {
const markets = [], seen = new Set(), pageSize = 100;
for (let offset = 0; offset < limit; offset += pageSize) {
const params = new URLSearchParams({ active: "true", closed: "false", archived: "false", include_tag: "true",
limit: String(Math.min(pageSize, limit - offset)), offset: String(offset), order: "volume24hr", ascending: "false" });
const page = await fetchJson(`${GAMMA}/markets?${params}`);
if (!Array.isArray(page) || !page.length) break;
for (const market of page) {
const id = String(market.id || "");
if (!id || seen.has(id)) continue;
seen.add(id); markets.push(market);
}
if (page.length < Math.min(pageSize, limit - offset)) break;
}
return markets.slice(0, limit);
}
const rawMarkets = await fetchActiveMarkets(MARKET_LIMIT);
const markets = rawMarkets.map((raw) => ({ id: String(raw.id), question: raw.question || "", category: categoryOf(raw),
tokenId: String(parseJson(raw.clobTokenIds)[0] || "") })).filter((market) => market.id && market.tokenId);
const histories = await mapLimit(markets, CONCURRENCY, async (market) => {
@@ -169,17 +238,20 @@ const histories = await mapLimit(markets, CONCURRENCY, async (market) => {
});
const successful = histories.filter((result) => result && !result.error && result.points.length);
const outcomes = successful.flatMap((result) => result.outcomes);
const ordered = [...outcomes].sort((a, b) => a.observedAt - b.observedAt);
const splitTime = ordered[Math.floor(ordered.length * 0.70)]?.observedAt || 0;
const train = ordered.filter((row) => row.observedAt < splitTime), test = ordered.filter((row) => row.observedAt >= splitTime);
const primaryHorizon = HORIZONS.includes(12) ? 12 : HORIZONS[0];
const primaryOutcomes = outcomes.filter((row) => row.horizonHours === primaryHorizon);
const report = {
generatedAt: new Date().toISOString(), marketLimit: MARKET_LIMIT, marketsWithHistory: successful.length,
methodology: { horizonHours: 12, observationBucketHours: 6, historyInterval: "1m", fidelityMinutes: 60,
estimatedRoundTripCostCents: 0.5, note: "Current active-market selection and current category tags are a survivorship-biased proxy; signal inputs and future marks are time-ordered without lookahead." },
overall: summarize(outcomes), byType: grouped(outcomes, "type"), byCategory: grouped(outcomes, "category"),
byBand: grouped(outcomes, "band"), bySide: grouped(outcomes, "side"),
chronologicalSplit: { splitTime: splitTime ? new Date(splitTime * 1000).toISOString() : null,
trainCount: train.length, testCount: test.length, train: evaluateRules(train), test: evaluateRules(test) },
methodology: { horizonHours: HORIZONS, primaryHorizon, observationBucketHours: 6, historyInterval: "1m", fidelityMinutes: 60,
estimatedRoundTripCostCents: COST_CENTS, clusterUnit: "market",
note: "Current active-market selection and current category tags are a survivorship-biased proxy; signal inputs and future marks are time-ordered without lookahead. Confidence intervals use per-market means to reduce repeated-observation distortion." },
overall: summarize(primaryOutcomes), byType: grouped(primaryOutcomes, "type"), byCategory: grouped(primaryOutcomes, "category"),
byBand: grouped(primaryOutcomes, "band"), bySide: grouped(primaryOutcomes, "side"),
chronologicalSplit: chronologicalEvaluation(primaryOutcomes),
horizons: Object.fromEntries(HORIZONS.map((horizon) => {
const rows = outcomes.filter((row) => row.horizonHours === horizon);
return [horizon, { overall: summarize(rows), chronological: chronologicalEvaluation(rows) }];
})),
failures: histories.filter((result) => result?.error).length,
};
console.log(JSON.stringify(report, null, 2));