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Commit to a pre-trade experiment charter

Commit to a SMART experiment charter before running or revising a strategy backtest.

commitment-card before-after trigger-builder Write a SMART experiment charter for one algorithmic-trading strategy test before running or revising the notebook a strategy backtest, feature experiment, walk-forward validation, or cost-model revision that could otherwise drift after results appear For [strategy idea], I will test [specific hypothesis] on [market/universe/timeframe]. Success means [measurable net metric plus risk limit]. [Owner] will decide [promote/revise/kill] by [date or sample boundary] using [realistic costs and constraints]. In 3 days, check whether the charter was written before results were inspected and whether any new idea was logged as a separate experiment. A new futures breakout backtest where the lookback,…

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