Signal path
- A shipped setup always names a direction: grade C needs confidence
>= 45 (gate 6c grants B at >= 45) while BUY/SELL needs >= 50, so C/B
reports reached the alert gate as NEUTRAL with a full setup. The
backtester traded them (the replay never reads final_signal) while
Telegram rejected NEUTRAL first — 5/91 trades, +3.7R of +22.2R, in
the H1 12-month book. _attach_core_setup stamps the setup's direction
and repairs the pre-gate action text; no-setup reports stay NEUTRAL.
- analyze_pair fails the scan when ANY required frame is missing
("DATA UNAVAILABLE:", scan_kind='failed'); a lost confirmation frame
used to run with an unearned -15 MTF penalty.
Outcomes and labels
- advisory_outcome.resolve_locked_floor: a gap the database cannot fill
resolves at the locked trailing stop (GAP_LOCKED, result.floor) when
the stop had crossed the entry; the rebuild fires on both gap reasons
(rows 915/920: +1.14R / +0.84R floors; resolved sum -2.46R -> -0.48R).
- label_scan_outcomes: SCAN_LABEL_MAX_AGE_H = 72 h, stale rows never
anchor the shared bar stream, labeled_at bumped on re-examination,
_stream_since warns at its row cap (the Labor-Day pile would have
blinded scan_outcomes around 2026-09-14).
Providers and scheduling
- The daily settlement pause (Mon-Thu 17:00 New York) is a scheduled
closure for _has_latest_closed_bar (whole-span label walk-back) and
_is_data_fresh (closed seconds are not age); bot and dashboard skip
scans whose just-closed label sits in the pause (61 false stale rows
in three nights).
- fetch_range retries a failed page in place (three failures on one
window raise) and logs an ERROR for interior gaps of >3 unscheduled
bars.
- pd.Timestamp.utcnow() replaced in providers/base.py and engine.py;
requirements pin pandas<4, numpy<3.
- telegram_bot: boundary loops share one scan per bar with the breach
handler (_remember_scan keys on the analysed bar; breach defers 20 s
after an M15 boundary); the rotating file handler attaches in main()
only (the test suite used to write into logs/telegram.log).
- dashboard_publisher: catch_up_timeframes re-scans boundaries missed
while a cycle overran or the process was down.
Backtester and engine guards
- _replay_span returns the per-span GPU cache-miss count; run_backtest
sums, logs it (must be 0) and writes cache_fallbacks to the manifest.
- regime_weight_table raises on a partial regime_weights_override.
Verification: 519 tests; M5/M15 2-yr, M15 OOS, H1/H4 3-yr books
byte-identical before and after; live signals.db untouched (checked on
a copy). CLAUDE.md carries the dated entry and the blocked-hours union
semantics that every book was validated under.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0139xz1J6YccndA2be6yFnEo
Adds an opt-in recorder to the backtester so a replay keeps the evidence each
trade setup was decided on: every indicator's vote, value, confidence, base
weight, regime multiplier, effective weight and contribution on the primary and
both confirmation timeframes, penalties, the setup and outcome, and the Forex
Factory calendar events around the trade (4 h before entry to exit, all-day rows
on the New-York date). --record-bars adds one float32 row per analyzed bar with
the same votes plus 1 h/4 h/24 h forward moves in ATRs. Output is Parquet in a
folder per run with a manifest carrying the engine/gate fingerprints, the regime
weight table in force and the book MD5.
Nothing in the signal core changes: the trade book is byte-identical with
recording on or off (control-vs-recorded MD5 equal on both 2-year runs, M5
781 / +146.07R / PF 1.52, M15 793 / +117.62R / PF 1.41 at $0.65). Module 33
adds 12 tests (498 total): snapshot reproduces the engine's composite, absence
is no vote, calendar join edges/phases/holiday, write/load round-trip,
_replay_span parity with recording on, CLI flags, import and source guards.
Also: backtest/replay_scorecard.py (first-look scorecards, calendar buckets,
in-book and per-bar what-ifs, --check invariants), scripts/ff_calendar_scraper.py
restored from git history (the only way to regenerate the gitignored calendar
file), report in backtest/research/replay_recording_2026-09-09.md.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Nc9Ninzyi18QkWezrxeBvB
Harwinder Sekhon