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Harwinder Sekhon 509519866e news: beginner-language summary, 4 h headline window, drop neutral headlines; --news log report
Verdict from the 3-week signal log (backtest/research/news_sentiment_value_2026-09-04.md):
news_sentiment is a trailing-24h echo of price (r +0.67 with the past day, +0.03 with
the next; most bullish 2 h after the 08-25 top, bearish 44 h later; most bearish at the
09-02 low, bullish 16 h later). Per-headline LLM labels are correct; the 12 h pool and
the averaging are what destroy the information. Both gating flags stay False.

- news_engine: _LLM_SUMMARY_SYSTEM rewritten for someone who has never traded (no
  acronyms, two worked examples); summary payload newest-first with the platform's own
  gold direction; reply cap 300 -> 400 chars.
- config: headline_max_age_seconds 43200 -> 14400; RSS items without a parsable
  pubDate are dropped (they used to be stamped "now" and never aged out).
- news_engine.get_fundamental_context drops headlines whose every relevant score is
  inside +-0.1 (_is_neutral_headline) before the per-currency mean; news_sentiment
  from this date is a mean over directional <=4 h headlines (log comparisons split here).
- static: dashboard copy for the 4 h pool; news_summary.php prompt gets the same style rule.
- analyze_signal_log: --news (under --stored-candles) prints sentiment lead/lag with
  split halves, sentiment at the window high/low with flip lags, and outcome buckets by
  direction x news x macro stance; LogRow gains news_sentiment/event_risk; _row_index shared.
- tests: 406 -> 414 (age window, undated drop, neutral filter, summary prompt/payload/cap,
  --news helpers, load_rows round-trip); RSS fixtures now carry a pubDate.
- docs: user/beginner guides, CLAUDE.md, deploy README.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
## What this is
Signal-intelligence platform for **XAU/USD (gold — the only supported pair)**. It fetches OHLCV from the active data provider (**Oanda v20 since 2026-07-28**; Twelve Data and Tiingo remain registered fallbacks), scores 9 technical indicators per timeframe with regime-adaptive weights, checks multi-timeframe agreement and news risk, grades the signal (A+…F), and generates a full trade setup (entry, SL, TP1/TP2, trailing plan). Delivery: Telegram bot and CLI. A realism-focused backtester replays history through the *exact same* signal code.
Every numeric threshold in `config.py` and `pair_signals/xauusd.py` was backtested or is load-bearing for a backtested result. Validation evidence lives in the factory/module docstrings and in `~/.claude/projects/.../memory/`.
## Commands
```bash
python test_all.py # QA suite: 414 tests, 27 modules, no network (mocked)
python main.py --pair XAUUSD --timeframe H1 --detail # CLI signal report (--json for full dump,
# --panel to run the advisory LLM agent panel on-demand)
python telegram_bot.py # the bot (refuses to boot without credentials)
python dashboard_publisher.py --once # web dashboard: one scan+publish cycle to $DASHBOARD_OUT_DIR
# (omit --once for the candle-close daemon; deploy/README-dashboard.md)
# Backtests
python backtest/gpu_backtest.py --pair XAUUSD --days 365
python backtest/gpu_backtest.py --pair XAUUSD --start 2025-01-01 --end 2025-06-01 \
--primary-tf 15min --confirm-tfs 1h,4h
# key flags: --spread --quality A+,A,B,C --strategies --workers --max-hold-bars
# --warmup-bars --cooldown-bars --no-cache --export-csv out.csv --detail
# --fixed-rr-tp N (research-only: hard TP at N×risk, trail off; verdict
# 2026-08-05: NOT shipped — backtest/research/fixedtp_2026-08-05.md)
```
**`test_all.py` is NOT pytest** — it uses a custom `@test("name")` decorator that runs each test immediately at import; don't grep for `def test_` or try `pytest test_all.py`. Run the whole file; it prints per-module results and exits non-zero on failure. There is no way to run a single test short of commenting modules out. Tests must stay green; every new gate/knob needs tests. Signal-log fixtures: use a WEEKDAY signal bar when a test exercises candle continuity — the outcome model treats weekend and 21:00 UTC gaps as scheduled, so Saturday-dated bars never produce a gap. `_candles_json` stores `df.tail(14)`, so a test snapshot longer than 14 bars silently drops its head. When patching weekend logic in tests, patch `providers.base._is_forex_weekend` — but know there are THREE independent signal-path weekend implementations (`providers/base.py`, `signal_aggregator.py`, and an inline copy in `backtest/gpu_backtest.py:_is_xau_blocked_by_calendar`) plus the advisory-only continuity copy in `advisory_outcome.py`; patching one does not reach the others.
Python 3.12; a `venv/` exists in-repo. Dependencies in `requirements.txt` (numpy, pandas, requests, twelvedata, python-telegram-bot ≥20, websockets).
## Configuration & credentials
Precedence for every credential/deployment setting: **env var → config.json → refuse to run** (no hardcoded fallbacks). A gitignored repo-root `.env` is loaded at `app_config` import via `os.environ.setdefault`. `config.json` (gitignored; schema in `config.json.example`) holds secrets plus deployment settings: `data_providers.active` (the live-feed switch), `data_providers.streaming` (optional tick-stream provider for the level-breach monitor), `scanning.pairs`/`timeframes`, per-pair `blocked_hours_utc`, `log_level`. Key env vars: `TELEGRAM_TOKEN`, `TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID`, `TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_ID`, `TWELVE_DATA_API_KEY`, `TIINGO_API_KEY`, `OANDA_ACCOUNT_ID`/`OANDA_API_TOKEN`/`OANDA_BASE_URL`, `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` (news LLM; the `deepseek` config.json block holds model/enabled/timeout/daily cap). The `agent_panel` config.json block (all-defaults = feature dark) controls the advisory LLM agent panel: `enabled`, per-surface `telegram`/`dashboard` toggles, `min_quality`, `max_panels_per_day`, `reuse_ttl_seconds`, plus the technical-payload enrichment knobs `candles_enabled`/`candle_bars_primary`/`candle_bars_confirm`. The dark-by-default `market_outlook` block controls the hourly advisory market brief: `enabled`, `telegram`, `max_per_day`, `candles_bars`; `MARKET_OUTLOOK_ENABLED` overrides its enabled setting.
## Architecture
### End-to-end pipeline (every scan)
```
providers/<active>.fetch_ohlcv() per TF: single-flight fetch, drop forming candle, validate/clean, cache
(only Twelve Data rate-throttles; Oanda has no client throttle)
→ engine.TechnicalEngine.analyze() per TF: 9 scored indicators + ATR context → regime → composite score
→ signal_aggregator.analyze_pair() live entry point (weekend/day filters, fetch, staleness)
└─ analyze_from_dataframes() replayable core: MTF agreement → news → bonuses/penalties →
final signal + quality grade → gates → trade setup → reasons
→ SignalReport consumed by telegram_bot.py, main.py, backtester
```
Signal currency everywhere is `SignalStrength` (−2..+2). DataFrames are UTC tz-aware, oldest-first, capitalized OHLCV columns. Everything runs on **closed bars only** — the forming candle is dropped, and session/hour filters evaluate **bar-CLOSE time** (bar label + candle duration) identically in live and backtest.
### Layers
- **`providers/`** — one class per provider subclassing `BaseDataProvider` (`providers/base.py`), which owns everything the pipeline depends on: TTL+boundary cache, forming-candle drop, freshness check, validate/clean, paginated `fetch_range` (feeds the backtester from any provider), optional tick streaming. Subclasses implement only `_fetch_raw` + symbol/interval maps. Registry + `make_data_provider(config, name=None)` in `providers/__init__.py`; config.json `data_providers.active` selects the live candle feed and the optional `data_providers.streaming` scalar selects a different provider for the tick stream. A test enforces that subclasses don't override shared base methods (`supports_streaming`/`iter_ticks` are the sanctioned streaming override points). Tiingo streams mid-price ticks (`wss://api.tiingo.com/fx`) — do not re-add spread display from its free FX feed (two-tier indicative quotes, removed 2026-07-23); the no-spread rule extends to the WS stream.
- **`engine.py`** — `TechnicalEngine`: 9 scored indicators (ema_trend, rsi, macd, bollinger, adx, roc, keltner, divergence, candlestick) + ATR as context. Regime classification (trending_up/down, `trending` = mixed/direction-UNKNOWN, transitioning, ranging) drives per-indicator weight multipliers and regime-aware RSI reinterpretation. Compute order matters (ATR first; MACD always computed even when not a pillar — divergence needs the histogram). Private series ride on the result as `_underscore` attrs; scorers/formatters skip anything `_`-prefixed or weight-0.
- **`signal_aggregator.py`** — MTF agreement, diminishing-decay penalty system, exhaustion hard block, quality grading, then an ordered chain of post-grade gates (session, XAU SELL quality/vol/hour, regime blocks, M5 noise gates), then three setup generators: XAU ATR (A+/A), generic swing-based, plus the M5 pullback (`XAU_PB`) and chart-pattern (`XAU_CP`, `chart_patterns.py`) entry paths. The PB/CP generators run AFTER the gate chain and force quality to "B"; the CP path deliberately accepts grade-F composites and re-checks only session/day/big-candle (via warning prefixes) plus its own SELL/vol/RSI gates — it does NOT re-check exhaustion or the M5 min-score/MTF gates. **This is validated behavior, not a bug** (2026-08-04 audit: 226/586 trades in the shipped M5 12mo book are XAU_CP, +38.9R, 104 of them exhaustion-flagged and net-positive) — changing it is a rule-1 revalidation event. `TradeSetup.strategy` selects trailing params; trail params are stamped on the setup from the *producing* config so per-TF overrides reach formatters.
- **`pair_signals/`** — per-pair config factories. **Always use the factory (`produce_signal` / `make_config`), never bare `PlatformConfig()`** — the factory applies the config.json overlay first, then the validated per-TF deltas (M5 hour-9 block, M15 trail arm 0.70, M15 SELL-hour block, M5 SELL-in-transitioning block, H1 all-shorts block (2026-09-03), etc.; evidence in the docstring). A test enforces factory ≡ inline-config equivalence. Confirmation map: M5→[M15,H1], M15→[M5,H1], H1→[M15,H4], H4→[H1,D1].
- **`signal_log.py` / `advisory_outcome.py`** — SQLite signal-history logger (stdlib only). Hooked into `SignalAggregator.analyze_pair` only (the live entry point — the backtester never writes here, preserving parity), so every live scan from every surface (Telegram `telegram`, CLI `cli`, dashboard `dashboard`) lands one row in `logs/signals.db`: signal/grade/price, MTF + trade-setup + reasons JSON, full per-TF indicator snapshots, the last 14 closed OHLCV candles per fetched TF, and the news at scan time (event risk + calendar events + scored headlines, re-fetched via the NewsEngine class-level caches). Config.json `signal_log` block (`enabled`, `path`, `log_blocked_scans`; env `SIGNAL_LOG_ENABLED`/`SIGNAL_LOG_PATH`/`SIGNAL_LOG_BLOCKED_SCANS`). **Fail-safe by contract** — a logging failure can never break a scan. Panel fields arrive post-hoc: `log_signal` stashes the rowid and `agent_panel.attach_panel` writes verdict + creation/cache provenance + payload hash onto the same row. **Advisory outcomes (2026-09):** EVERY row with a trade setup is seeded at log time (not only panel rows); same-setup re-logs within 60 min from any surface (`setup_key` = tf|direction|entry|stop|strategy) are `DUPLICATE` rows pointing at the canonical row via `advisory_event_id`, so sum `advisory_r_multiple` over `RESOLVED` rows only. The versioned model advances from later stored closed-candle snapshots (next-open reanchoring, intrabar peak with close-only ratchet, SL-first, scheduled weekend/21:00-UTC closures allowed, 300-bar timeout, $0.30/$0.65 views); when a snapshot no longer overlaps the outcome's last bar it rebuilds the stream from every stored snapshot of that TF before giving up. It is a cleaned-mid evidence model, not execution P&L. **Post-gate truth columns:** `gate_reason` (the warning that removed the setup), `actionable` (grade ≥ C AND setup — the `action` text is written BEFORE the gate chain and can say "STRONG SELL — High-quality setup" on a D row), `cleaned_warnings_json` (what the XAU_CP acceptance stripped), `bar_range_median` (= the misnamed `spread` column: median High-Low, NOT a broker spread), `scan_kind` (`blocked` weekend/day early returns carry no news/candles), `config_fingerprint` (gate config hash — surfaces config drift between processes). **News is content-addressed:** `headlines_json`/`events_json` are interned into `news_snapshots` (they were 73% of a 667 MB DB); read through the `signals_with_news` view or `signal_log.read_news`. Readers must open with `mode=ro`, never `immutable=1` (blind to WAL rows). Tools: `analyze_signal_log.py` (`--stored-candles` DB-only replay with event/opportunity/one-position books + persona scorecard, `--news` news-sentiment lead/lag + extremes + outcome buckets, `--parity` telegram-vs-dashboard divergence report), `scripts/backfill_signal_outcomes.py` (seed/dedup/advance legacy rows), `scripts/migrate_signal_log_news.py` (intern legacy blobs; `--vacuum` with both writers stopped).
- **`news_engine.py`** — Forex Factory calendar (MyFXBook RSS fallback) + RSS keyword sentiment with gold-inverse keywords. Class-level caches (fresh engine per scan). Optional DeepSeek enrichment via `llm_client.py` (requests-only, no SDK): batched headline sentiment overriding keyword scores, gold-direction on release surprises, and a market-summary blurb (`SignalReport.news_summary`) — **display/warning-only, keyword fallback on any failure, inert without a key**; prompts are static module constants (DeepSeek prefix-cache pricing) and requests send `thinking: disabled` (V4-Flash reasoning otherwise blows the timeout). By XAU-tuned default, event risk and sentiment **warn but do not gate signals** (`event_risk_caps_signals=False`, `sentiment_affects_signals=False`) — the LLM does not change that. **Headline pool (2026-09-04):** only headlines ≤ 4 h old with a parsable publish time (`headline_max_age_seconds=14400`, undated items dropped), and `get_fundamental_context` drops headlines whose every relevant score is inside ±0.1 (`_is_neutral_headline`, `NEUTRAL_HEADLINE_THRESHOLD`) before the per-currency mean — so `news_sentiment` from that date is a mean over directional headlines only (bolder values; log comparisons must split at the deploy date). The market summary prompt writes for someone who has never traded (no acronyms), sends headlines newest-first with the platform's own gold direction, and caps at 400 chars. **Verdict 2026-09-04** (`backtest/research/news_sentiment_value_2026-09-04.md`): `news_sentiment` is a trailing-24h echo of price (r≈0.67 with the past day, ≈0.03 with the next; flips 44 h after tops / 16 h after bottoms) — both gating flags stay False; re-check with `analyze_signal_log.py --stored-candles --news`.
- **`agent_panel.py`** — ai-hedge-fund-style advisory panel: 4 DeepSeek persona calls (macro/technical/risk/contrarian, concurrent on a panel-private pool) + 1 synthesizer producing an **ADVISORY-ONLY** consensus (`AGREE/NEUTRAL/OPPOSE` + confidence + rationale) written onto `SignalReport.panel_*` fields. Attached **post-hoc** by consumers (`telegram_bot` alert path, `main --panel`, `dashboard_publisher`) — never runs inside `analyze_from_dataframes` (backtest parity, test-locked) and no gate reads its fields. Persona payloads are role-filtered: macro gets high-impact events plus only code-scored directional news; technical gets strategy/pattern, primary indicators, MTF, levels, and ATR-normalized candles; risk gets setup strategy, strategy cost assumption, trailing semantics, volatility/events/warnings (never the median candle range as spread); contrarian gets directional news, setup, timestamped latest-closed price, indicators, reasons, and warnings. Spend is bounded by exact cache, full-evidence-identity TTL reuse, and `max_panels_per_day`; changed evidence never inherits a direction-only cached verdict (test-locked — which also means TTL reuse effectively never fires live because price/candles change every bar; the daily cap is the real spend bound). Verdict provenance logs creation time, `MISS`/`EXACT_HIT`/`TTL_REUSE`, and a SHA-256 payload hash. Prompts forbid outside knowledge and outputs remain short. **OPPOSE guard (2026-09):** the 3-week signal-log scorecard showed the contrarian/risk/technical personas oppose almost every trend entry (chair said OPPOSE 73% of the time; opposed trades made +30R, PF 2.6) while the macro persona was the only informative voice (macro=support → 88% win). `_apply_oppose_guard` therefore downgrades a chair OPPOSE to NEUTRAL unless macro opposes, or technical opposes while macro is not supportive; the synthesizer prompt states the same rule. Re-score with `analyze_signal_log.py --stored-candles` (persona scorecard) before changing it again. **Verdict source (2026-09-03, owner decision):** all four personas still run and are logged (`panel_takes_json`), but `agent_panel.verdict_source` defaults to `"macro"` — the alert verdict is the macro persona's stance (support/neutral/oppose → AGREE/NEUTRAL/OPPOSE) and the synthesizer call is skipped (4 LLM calls per panel instead of 5); `"chair"` restores the four-voice synthesizer + OPPOSE guard. Re-score personas monthly with `analyze_signal_log.py --stored-candles`; weights are not to be tuned before ~300 graded outcomes with a held-out half.
- **`market_outlook.py`** — hourly DeepSeek market brief for XAU/USD, using ATR-normalized M15/H1/H4 candles, visible indicator states, levels, news, and recent signal history (read `mode=ro`). It returns a written **ADVISORY-ONLY** bias/setup-forming assessment and persists it independently in `outlooks` within `logs/signals.db` together with the news, indicator/regime/level, and candle evidence sent to the model. It may be sent post-scan by Telegram or requested with `main.py --outlook`; it never imports or runs inside the signal path. Hourly dedup is by UTC hour BUCKET (the old `now − last < 3600` rule dropped every other hour because the H1 loop fires at boundary+10 s+scan time) plus its own UTC-day cap (default 12); every silent early return logs `market outlook: skipped (...)` and an empty LLM reply logs a warning — a dark feature must be visible in `logs/telegram.log`. Provider/news failures leave a safe partial brief while LLM/database failures degrade to no outlook.
- **`telegram_bot.py`** — owner-locked bot + subscriber channel; candle-boundary auto-scan loops (M5/M15/H1/H4, boundary+10 s), alert quality threshold + fingerprint dedup (committed only after a successful send; the fingerprint is signal+direction — grade is NOT part of it, a grade UPGRADE re-alerts, an A↔B flicker does not), 📰 LLM market-context line on alerts when available, WebSocket level-breach monitor fed by the streaming provider (`data_providers.streaming`, falling back to the active provider; auto-disabled when the resolved provider can't stream or has no API key — Oanda does not stream, Tiingo does). The breach handler reuses this bar's M15 report (`_cached_or_scan`, keyed by closed-bar epoch) instead of rescanning — it used to log 3.5 M15 rows per candle. Rotating log: `logs/telegram.log`, 3-h rotation × 240 backups.
- **`dashboard_publisher.py` / `static/dashboard.html`** — web dashboard as a **static publisher** (live LAMP server): standalone daemon scans at candle closes via `produce_signal` and atomically writes `snapshot.json`/`news.json`/`dashboard.html` to `$DASHBOARD_OUT_DIR` (Apache serves them; page is public by owner decision). **Hard independence rule: never imports, and is never imported by, `telegram_bot`** — confirmation map and boundary math are deliberate local copies, so a web-side failure can only mean a stale page. Due-TF classification uses the RAW wake time (flooring wake−buffer skips every H1/H4 scan — 2026-08-02 bug). News panel reads `NewsEngine.get_fundamental_context()` plus the additive `get_week_events()` accessor (display-only; no signal path calls it); as a separate process it has its own news caches and DeepSeek daily cap. News/calendar rows are clickable (detail dialog); headlines carry `id` = sha1(headline) in news.json, and exactly one on-demand endpoint exists: `static/news_summary.php` (installed by `install_static`), which serves a DeepSeek gold-impact summary per headline — whitelist-gated against news.json ids, cache-forever in `ai/`, own fail-closed daily cap (150/day, file-based, separate from the publisher's), key at `/etc/gold-dashboard/deepseek.key`, never reads repo config. Deployment checklist: `deploy/README-dashboard.md`.
- **`backtest/gpu_backtest.py`** — bar-by-bar replay through the real `analyze_from_dataframes` (news off). Realism model (do not regress): next-bar-open entries re-anchored to the raw price path, round-trip `--spread` charged per trade, trade resolution on RAW bars (cleaning applies only to signal-side data), same-bar SL+TP tie → SL first, gap fills at bar open, trail ratchet at bar close only. Indicators are precomputed once per TF (CuPy GPU or NumPy fallback — check the `Backend:` log line); replay fans out over worker processes and the 5-bar cooldown is applied in an ordered pass afterwards, so parallel and sequential books are identical. Parquet cache in `backtest/cache/` keyed by provider/symbol/TF/window. `backtest/*.csv` are gitignored pinned trade books from past campaigns — used for manual before/after comparison. `backtest/instructions_for_backtest.txt` lists what every backtest report must record.
## Rules for making changes (read before editing signal logic)
1. **Never change a tuned value without re-validation.** Acceptance rule: positive total R in BOTH train and validation halves of a ≥12-month window, PF ≥ 1.3, at realistic cost (XAU $0.65 round trip headline; retain $0.30 for TD-era cross-book comparability), trailing exits, next-open fills. `round_trip_cost` stays $0.30 because it also drives the live TP spread gate; changing it is a separate rule-1 event. Marginal edges must additionally pass the 2024-06→2025-03 out-of-sample window — within-year splits alone have approved configs that later failed OOS.
2. **Per-timeframe overrides live in the pair factory**, never in global defaults — the same knob has opposite effects on different TFs (proven repeatedly: `tp_floor_rr`, hour-9 block, trail params). Document validation evidence in the factory docstring.
3. **Pair isolation is a hard invariant.** XAU gates in the aggregator are display-name-gated so a future pair port cannot inherit gold-calibrated logic by accident.
4. **Live == backtest parity.** If you add a live gate, add it to the replay path in the same commit; all time filters evaluate bar-close time in both paths.
5. **ROC stays weighted** even though it's correlated with MACD/Keltner/EMA — zeroing it backtested 13R worse; composite thresholds are calibrated with it.
6. **Backtester realism knobs are results-critical** (raw-path resolution, spread charging, next-open entry, SL-first ties, close-only trail). Touching them invalidates comparability with all pinned books.
7. **The forming candle must stay dropped** — live signals repaint otherwise.
8. Don't add config fields nothing reads; don't disable indicators in production paths (`disabled_indicators` is for experiments only).
9. EUR/USD was removed 2026-07-16 after a no-edge verdict (cost-to-volatility; last commit with EUR support: `7d3fd95`). Do not re-add without new data. BTC/ETH work lives on unmerged branches only.
## 2026-08-04 QA audit — owner decisions ledger
- **Weekend calendar: FIXED (owner-approved 2026-08-04).** All three signal-path `_is_forex_weekend` copies are NY-anchored (Fri 17:00 → Sun 18:00 ET; during US DST that is Fri 21:00 UTC — measured on 5yr of Oanda bars). Kills the weekly false-"STALE DATA/feed lagging" hours. Book impact at the audit HEAD: M15 byte-identical; M5 12mo dropped exactly ONE trade — a phantom whose signal fired on the final summer-Friday bar (close 21:00 UTC) and "filled" at Sunday's reopen 49 h later (−1.08R, live-impossible), leaving 555 trades / +98.64R / PF≈1.50 @ $0.65 (was 556/+97.56/1.48). The current-HEAD canonical reference is recorded below. A Module 21 test sweeps those copies plus the advisory outcome's continuity copy hourly across both DST transitions.
- **Spread in exit-trigger detection (rule 6): owner DECLINED 2026-08-04.** Backtest stop triggers stay on raw mid High/Low; the measured optimism (~4–6% of total R: −3.55R @ $0.30, −4.24R @ $0.65 on the M15 12mo book) is accepted and books stay comparable. Re-open only as a conscious re-pin campaign.
- **`FB2_EMA_LO`: HARDENED 2026-08-04 (delegated).** Research override for the EMA200-proximity band, default = tuned 0.5; an unparseable value now degrades to the default with a warning instead of crashing every scan. Documented here — it is a knob that exists.
- **H4 seeding divergence: parked.** Live H4 fetches only 380 bars vs the backtest's unbounded history — ~2% of sampled H4 bars flip an indicator signal (composite Δ up to 12.3). M5/M15/H1 clean at their real fetch depths. Fold into any future H4 campaign; H4 remains "unproven".
## Current state notes (2026-08-14)
- Oanda v20 is the live feed (`data_providers.active: "oanda"`). The 2026-08-04 re-pin made the 27 `backtest/oanda_*.csv` books the baseline; all TD-era books are superseded. Current-HEAD M5 canonical book: `backtest/oanda_m5_12mo_065_nopb_20260814.csv`, +106.82R PF 1.51 at $0.65 (both halves positive; PF 1.46 / 1.55). M15 reference: +73.93R PF 1.53. See `backtest/research/repin_verification_2026-08-14.md`.
- Cost reporting is dual: $0.65 is the measured-Oanda realistic headline ($0.65-$0.72 round trip), while $0.30 remains for cross-book comparability and as the live TP spread-gate input. Raising `round_trip_cost` from $0.30 would move the TP floor from about $9 to $19.50 and requires full rule-1 revalidation.
- Twelve Data is signal-incompatible with Oanda (Phase 1: about 19% M5 bar-direction disagreement and a systematic ~$1 high bias; see `backtest/research/feed_divergence_2026-08-14.md`). On an Oanda candle outage, stop scanning rather than switching to TD candles.
- Tiingo is streaming-only (`data_providers.streaming: "tiingo"`), not a designated candle fallback. Oanda-Tiingo signal parity is documented in `backtest/research/signal_parity_2026-08-14.md`; Phase 4's two-week live shadow scan remains a manual operational step.
- Human-facing docs in `docs/` (`user_guide.html`, `beginner_guide.html` + PDF builds) must be kept in sync when signal behavior changes.
- 2026-09-03 signal-log campaign shipped two new per-TF gates (`backtest/research/signal_log_campaign_2026-09.md`): M5 `sell_blocked_regimes=["transitioning"]` and H1 `sell_min_quality=[]` (all H1 shorts blocked). Current-HEAD M5 canonical book is now `backtest/oanda_m5_12mo_065_nopb_20260903.csv` (557 / +112.21R / PF 1.56, halves +55.9/+56.4); H1 reference `backtest/oanda_h1_12mo_065_20260903.csv` (91 / +22.2R / PF 1.79; 5yr +49.1R PF 1.46; OOS +16.7R PF 1.74).
- Auto-execution (oanda_daemon.py / oanda_executor.py) was removed 2026-09-03 — the owner is not auto-trading; last commit containing it is 31002cb. Book-parity rules that lived in its docstring (no broker TP, 5-bar cooldown, once-per-bar trail) remain the backtester's model.