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holymolypoly

The cage matters more than the strategy inside it.

State
Parked
Type
Market-microstructure bot
Where it runs
Paper only. No live money, by its own rule.
Graduates when
It does not, until 500+ paper trades show a calibrated edge. That was its own rule before it ran, and it is still binding.

A 24/7 bot that reads live crypto spot prices from two exchange feeds and watches short-window prediction markets for the moment spot has moved but the market hasn’t repriced. Information lag, not direction prediction. The cage matters more than the strategy: fractional-Kelly sizing, a 5% daily loss limit, a kill switch that exits in under a second. It ran for days on paper and stopped there, by its own rule: no live money before 500+ paper trades show a calibrated edge.

Two sibling forks apply the opposite strategy — making markets on live sport, a point-by-point simulator underneath — both stopped, deliberately, at walk-forward validation. Same bar everywhere: build to spec, not to vibes.

No entries in the lab log yet. This project keeps its own build log; entries land here once it is wired to the site.

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