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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The paper currently makes two materially inaccurate claims: it presents the crossover-surface rank correlation as covering all five systems despite CTA 5.0 lacking a comparable grid, and it says kurtosis improves monotonically even though the reported values rise from CTA 2.0 to CTA 3.0. These are bounded documentation-correctness issues, but the paper should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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The change is limited to new documentation sources that match the existing docs/paper/ layout and CI expectations, with no detected build or consistency issues.
Pull request overview
Adds a LaTeX paper under docs/paper/ that quantifies what each of the five CTA notebook refinements contributes (including turnover/cost sensitivity and parameter-sweep results), using metrics computed from the repository’s own strategy builders and tests.
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- Adds
docs/paper/main.tex: a full paper describing the five CTA systems, methodology, results tables, and reproducibility appendix. - Adds
docs/paper/references.bib: bibliography entries used by the paper.
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| File | Description |
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| docs/paper/main.tex | New LaTeX paper with formulas, results tables, and reproducibility notes tied to the repo’s strategy implementations. |
| docs/paper/references.bib | New BibTeX database supporting citations used in the paper. |
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In `@docs/paper/main.tex`:
- Around line 49-50: Restrict the rank-correlation claim to CTA 1.0 through CTA
4.0, excluding CTA 5.0 because it lacks a comparable shared crossover grid.
Update the abstract at docs/paper/main.tex lines 49-50 and the conclusion at
docs/paper/main.tex lines 587-589 to state the same four-system scope.
- Around line 310-313: Revise the interpretation around the risk columns in
docs/paper/main.tex lines 310-313 to remove the claim that they are monotone,
while retaining that maximum drawdown improves at every step and accurately
acknowledging the kurtosis increase from CTA 2.0 to CTA 3.0. Apply the same
corrected conclusion at docs/paper/main.tex lines 580-584; both sites require
updates.
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| Spearman rank correlation between the parameter surfaces of any two systems is | ||
| between $0.93$ and $0.98$ --- the structural change moves the level, not the |
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Limit the crossover-surface result to CTA 1.0 through CTA 4.0.
Table~\ref{tab:rank} contains only CTA 1.0 through CTA 4.0. Lines 431-433 also state that CTA 5.0 has fixed crossover lengths and is absent from the shared grid. The CTA 5.0 Optuna objective searches volatility, correlation, and shrinkage instead. Do not claim rank correlation across all five systems without a comparable CTA 5.0 analysis.
docs/paper/main.tex#L49-L50: restrict the abstract claim to the four systems with shared crossover grids.docs/paper/main.tex#L587-L589: restrict the conclusion claim to the same four systems.
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In `@docs/paper/main.tex` around lines 49 - 50, Restrict the rank-correlation
claim to CTA 1.0 through CTA 4.0, excluding CTA 5.0 because it lacks a
comparable shared crossover grid. Update the abstract at docs/paper/main.tex
lines 49-50 and the conclusion at docs/paper/main.tex lines 587-589 to state the
same four-system scope.
| The risk columns tell a cleaner story than the return column, and they are | ||
| monotone where the Sharpe ratio is not. Maximum drawdown improves at every | ||
| single step, from $-61\%$ to $-35\%$. Excess kurtosis falls from $30.5$ to | ||
| $1.4$: CTA 1.0's daily return distribution is dominated by rare enormous days |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the monotonic kurtosis claim.
Table~\ref{tab:headline} reports kurtosis increasing from
docs/paper/main.tex#L310-L313: revise the interpretation of the risk columns.docs/paper/main.tex#L580-L584: revise the repeated conclusion.
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In `@docs/paper/main.tex` around lines 310 - 313, Revise the interpretation around
the risk columns in docs/paper/main.tex lines 310-313 to remove the claim that
they are monotone, while retaining that maximum drawdown improves at every step
and accurately acknowledging the kurtosis increase from CTA 2.0 to CTA 3.0.
Apply the same corrected conclusion at docs/paper/main.tex lines 580-584; both
sites require updates.
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Pushed one more commit: nav:
- Home: index.md
- Paper: paper/main.pdf # <- new
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Adds
docs/paper/main.texanddocs/paper/references.bib— a 10-page paper measuringwhat the five CTA notebooks actually buy, on the panel this repository ships.
Every number is computed from the repository's own code: the five portfolios come from
optimize.py's builders (which pullfout of each notebook viarunpy), so the papercannot drift from the strategies. The five headline Sharpe ratios agree with
tests/expected_sharpe.pyto all printed digits.What it finds
(0.8794 → 0.8776). Max drawdown and excess kurtosis, which the notebooks don't print,
improve at every step (−61% → −35%, kurtosis 30.5 → 1.4).
turnover (86.8 → 27.7 × AUM/year) and it dominates step 2 at any positive cost. Above
~12 bps one-way, CTA 1.0 beats CTA 5.0; above ~18.6 bps it beats all four others.
(fast, slow) pairs, the best pair of any system is below the default of the system two
steps later. The parameter surfaces of the four systems are rank-correlated 0.93–0.98:
structure lifts the ridge, tuning walks along it.
structural steps — and a selection-bias bracket of 0.03 to 0.34 puts even that in doubt.
Two implementation details the paper records because they are invisible in the formulas and
visible in the results: in CTA 3.0 the position-sizing volatility uses
slow, not thevolaslider (which reaches only the price filter); and CTA 5.0's crossover lengths arefixed at (32, 96) in the driver, so they are not search dimensions.
Compiles clean with
latexmk -pdf -bibtex(verified locally with pdflatex + bibtex, 10pages, no undefined references). Build artefacts under
docs/paper/are alreadygitignored, so only the two sources are added.
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