Once working equity exceeds stake_cap/pct ($6,250 at 4%), surplus cash sweeps
to state["reserve"]/portfolio reserve - banked, never bet, immune to drawdown
- keeping stakes at the $250 level where marketable fills sit inside typical
book depth. Feed/summary gain reserve; realized = cash+exposure+reserve-bank.
June backfill: equity $15,684 (+1468%), $9,185 banked, next stake pinned $250.
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- guard: by rule, a price BELOW the sharp's fill always passes (strictly
better odds; the symmetric guard once skipped a 0.70->0.51 improvement that
won +$36). Only adverse drift is gated by price_guard_pct.
- entry cap: June sweep (0.75-1.0) peaked at max_entry 0.95 - >95c favorites
added ~23 wins yet lowered final equity (slip+fee eat 1-3% payouts, capital
compounds better elsewhere); deep caps cut real winners. Set in all configs
+ portfolio MAX_ENTRY (env-overridable for sweeps; PORTFOLIO_OUT added).
Canonical June backfill: +716%, 219W/52L, $374 fees.
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Engine default + both bot configs + backtest set to 0 (cap logic stays, opt-in
via risk.max_per_event). June backfill without the cap: +465%, 237 resolved
(202W/35L), 22 missed, $170 fees.
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Engine records every blocked OPEN (no free cash, event cap, price guard) with
its would-be stake; settle_resolved marks them won/lost at CLOB resolution with
hypothetical P&L (fee-inclusive) - the live counterpart of the backtest's
Missed table. Feed gains missed[] + missed_pnl.
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- engine (copytrade): stake_usd() = bankroll_pct x current equity (cash + open
cost basis) - Kelly-style compounding both directions - halved while equity
sits below 80% of its high-water mark; new risk.max_per_event (default 2)
blocks stacking correlated markets on one real-world event (dated-slug prefix
grouping; LSB1 once put 6 conviction bets on a single match).
- copybot: feed/summary report the dynamic stake, stake_pct, event_cap, hwm.
- portfolio backtest mirrors the exact same rule (PCT 4%, clamp $5-$150,
EVENT_CAP 2, brake 80%/half), with per-bet stakes in every table row and a
persistent CLOB slug cache for event grouping. June backfill: +426% vs +168%
flat - compounding amplifies the in-sample month; July live is the test.
Misses fell 62 -> 19 cash-missed (+26 deliberate event-cap skips): smaller
early stakes capture more signals.
- configs: bankroll_pct 0.04, max_trade/max_position 150 (runaway guards),
max_per_event 2.
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Moved the 8 tested-and-failed strategy tools into archive/ (copytrade, backtest,
edge_research, lookback, table_77, lp_screener, lp_paper, xarb) with an
archive/README explaining each. Root now holds the keepers: insider.py (made
self-sufficient — dropped the copytrade load_json dependency) and smart_money.py
(data foundation). New FINDINGS.md is the honest scorecard: six systematic
public-data edges all efficient/illusory, the win-rate survivorship-bias
finding, and the one real signal (z-score improbability + funding clustering).
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