Validated
specialists.
Adaptive
shadows.
The execution pool runs validated specialists on live capital. A shadow population evolves continuously in parallel, adapting risk-side behaviour only. Walk-forward validation is the only door between the two.
The pool that trades. The lab that evolves.
Arena V2 is a two-regime organism. One side runs validated specialists on live capital. The other is a continuously adapting shadow population. A walk-forward validation gate is the only path from one regime to the other.
Validated specialists trading live capital. Each one passed the walk-forward gate before deployment. Signals route in from the intelligence layer; sized positions go out under fixed risk envelopes.
A continuously adapting shadow population runs in parallel with the live pool. Risk-side parameters mutate under multi-algorithm search; entry behaviour stays fixed at birth. Only candidates clearing the validation gate ever reach live capital.
Three tiers, one barrier.
The organism is a pipeline of tiers. Shadow candidates train continuously. A subset approaches the validation gate. Only those that clear it operate on live capital.
// Pool Composition
3 tiers · active| Tier | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Validated specialists | Walk-forward gated, live capital | active |
| Promotion candidates | Approaching validation gate | queued |
| Shadow population | Continuously evolving | training |
Multi-algorithm. Multi-domain.
The lab is not a single optimiser. It is a parallel cluster of evolutionary methods running against domain-partitioned subpopulations. A validation gate decides which lineages ever see live capital.
Five candidates approaching the gate.
These are the candidates closest to promotion-readiness: out-of-sample stability holding, walk-forward coverage approaching threshold, no regime-leakage flags raised.
// Validation Queue DEMO
These five rows are illustrative — they describe how the promotion queue is structured. Live arena state from data/arena_state.json ships in a later wave.
Cycles per day · thirty-day window.
The lab does not run on a fixed clock — it consumes whatever compute the pipeline leaves over. Velocity tracks how fast the population is being scored. Spikes correlate with low pipeline load.
// Cycles / Day
The arena is already running.
Seven specialists trading right now. A thousand shadows evolving in parallel. One gate every hundred cycles. Read the track record, study the architecture, or watch the live signal feed.