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Executions

Every strategy earns its rank. Six layers of statistical validation — from Deflated Sharpe Ratios to combinatorial cross-validation — run before a single dollar is deployed. No luck passes through.

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6×
Validation Layers
0%
Survivorship Bias
<30%
Max Allowed PBO
∞
Regime Coverage
› The Validation Stack
› Layer 1 + 2
Deflated Sharpe
Ratio + PBO
DSR PBO 0 0.3 1 WIN ZONE
The Sharpe Ratio
Lies. We correct it.

Standard Sharpe ratios inflate with every parameter trial run during research. Our Deflated Sharpe Ratio (DSR) adjusts for the number of trials, return skewness, and kurtosis — producing a conservative, statistically honest performance measure. Paired with the Probability of Backtest Overfit (PBO), we mathematically bound the probability that any result is merely a lucky artifact of the parameter search.

DSR ≥ 0.60required to advance · PBO must be < 30%
Optimization
Without Peeking

Walk-forward validation splits the historical record into sequential in-sample and out-of-sample windows. Strategy parameters are optimized on the in-sample period, then frozen and tested on the following unseen period — with no look-back allowed. This process repeats across the full price history, producing a realistic out-of-sample equity curve rather than a curve-fitted simulation.

OOS ≥ 60%consistency required across all windows
› Layer 3
Walk-Forward
Validation
IN-SAMPLE OOS TIME →
› Layer 4
Block Bootstrap
Resampling
ORIGINAL SERIES ↓ ×N RESAMPLE 1 RESAMPLE 2
Stress-Testing
Against Randomness

Block bootstrap resampling preserves the autocorrelation structure of financial returns while generating thousands of alternative price paths from the same underlying data. If a strategy is genuinely skilled, it performs across all resampled scenarios — not just the specific historical sequence it was developed on. Strategies that profit only from one particular market path are filtered out.

1,000+resampled paths evaluated per strategy
Combinatorial
Cross-Validation

Combinatorially Purged Cross-Validation (CPCV) is the most rigorous form of strategy evaluation available. The historical record is divided into multiple folds with embargo periods between them to prevent information leakage. Every possible combination of training and test sets is evaluated, producing a distribution of out-of-sample performance paths rather than a single pass/fail number. If the distribution is tight and consistently positive, the strategy passes.

C(N,k)combinations evaluated · embargo prevents leakage
› Layer 4b
Combinatorially
Purged CV
C-PCV FOLD MATRIX F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 TRAIN TEST
› Layer 5
Monte Carlo
Simulation
RETURN DISTRIBUTION 5% 95%
Confidence
Intervals On Everything

Monte Carlo simulation reorders actual trade sequences thousands of times to build empirical distributions of Sharpe ratio, maximum drawdown, and profit factor. Instead of a single point estimate from one historical path, every key metric is presented with confidence intervals. A strategy that shows excellent statistics in its exact historical sequence but wide confidence intervals is flagged as potentially path-dependent.

10,000Monte Carlo paths per strategy · 90% CI reported
Mathematically
Optimal Sizing

The Kelly Criterion derives the theoretically optimal position size for each strategy given its win rate, average win, and average loss. We implement fractional Kelly (typically half-Kelly) to account for estimation error and reduce drawdown volatility. Per-strategy and per-ticker drawdown limits override Kelly sizing when equity curves breach predetermined thresholds — automatically halting or demoting any strategy showing signs of regime change.

½ Kellyfractional sizing with drawdown override circuit breakers
› Layer 6a
Kelly Criterion
Position Sizing
POSITION SIZE PER STRATEGY S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 FULL KELLY (MAX) HALF KELLY
› Layer 6b
Regime-Conditioned
Performance
MARKET REGIMES BULL LAT BEAR LAT BULL
One Bull Run
Does Not Make a Strategy

Market regimes change. A strategy that only performs in trending bull markets is not robust — it is a bull market passenger. Every strategy's performance is sliced by regime (bull, bear, lateral) and required to show consistent results across all conditions. Strategies that concentrate their edge in a single regime are flagged, demoted, or halted until broader regime coverage can be demonstrated.

3regime conditions evaluated · all must show positive expectancy
Not Just Random Storms.
Realistic Ones.

A plain shuffle mixes calm and volatile periods together, destroying the way real drawdowns cluster. We simulate thousands of alternate market histories using a regime-persistent model — a Markov chain over trending, choppy, and volatile conditions — so each synthetic path respects how regimes actually transition, not just their long-run average. The result is a percentile cone of plausible outcomes, laid directly over the real regime history the strategy actually traded through. Advisory today, feeding tomorrow's live drift monitoring.

1,000regime-conditioned equity paths simulated per strategy
› Layer 4c
Regime-Conditioned
Stress Testing
1,000 SYNTHETIC HISTORIES REAL REGIME HISTORY →
› Gate 7
The Benchmark
Gate
STRATEGY VS. BUY & HOLD BUY & HOLD STRATEGY
Does It Beat
Doing Nothing?

A strategy can clear every statistical gate and still just be a levered bet on the market going up. Gate 7 backtests a plain buy-and-hold of the same ticker over the identical bars and costs, then measures alpha — the return left over after subtracting market exposure (beta). A one-sided block-bootstrap test on the excess-return series confirms that edge is statistically real, not noise dressed up as skill. No alpha, no pass — regardless of how good the raw Sharpe looks.

α > 0%required · plus p < 0.05 on the excess-return significance test
› Only The Best Survive

Strategies Earn
Their Place

No hand-picked results. No survivorship bias. Every ranking on the leaderboard reflects out-of-sample performance validated across six statistical layers and multiple market regimes. If it's green, it earned it.

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