THE LIFECYCLE

Every strategy has a life. AlgoLedger tracks all of it.

Not just while it's winning. From the moment a strategy is validated on paper to the moment it earns a permanent seat in your rotation — or gets retired — AlgoLedger keeps a running, honest account of what's actually happening.

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BACKTEST

Set the baseline before any capital is at risk.

You import your backtest results — win rate, profit factor, Sharpe/Sortino, trade distribution — before a strategy ever touches a live account. That backtest becomes the strategy's baseline: the standard every future live week is measured against.

Nothing about the baseline is aspirational. It's the actual, documented performance the strategy demonstrated before you trusted it with real money.

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LIVE

Every live trade is logged against that baseline, automatically.

As the strategy trades for real, each result — win or loss — accumulates into a running live record. AlgoLedger doesn't just show you this week's numbers in isolation; it blends them into the cumulative picture, so a single strong or weak week never distorts the read on how the strategy is actually doing.

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HEALTH SIGNAL

Know the moment live performance actually drifts — not when you happen to notice.

Health Signal compares cumulative live performance against the backtest baseline and assigns a status. It's built on one principle: move gradually, not violently. A single bad week is noise. Cumulative history is signal. Nothing fires on a one-week blip — every signal requires a minimum sample size and sustained drift before it triggers.

GREEN

Performing in line with backtest. No action needed.

YELLOW

Early drift detected. Worth watching, not yet acting on.

RED

Sustained, statistically meaningful underperformance. Intervention warranted.

DECOM

Cumulative edge has broken down. Decommissioning is the recommended path.

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DECISION LOG

A specific recommendation — and a permanent record of every call you made.

When a strategy's status changes, AlgoLedger doesn't just flag it and leave you guessing. Consultant (Starter and up) turns the signal into an actionable recommendation — adjust, pause, or keep running — grounded in the strategy's own cumulative history. Every decision, and the reasoning behind it, is written to a permanent audit log you can revisit at any time.

WHY CUMULATIVE, NOT WEEKLY
You wouldn't uncheck a Monday, adjust a stop loss, or pause a strategy because of one bad week.

Every metric in AlgoLedger is designed to dampen noise and prevent overreaction to short-term results. That's why the health signal, the Consultant's recommendations, and every risk metric in the system are grounded in a strategy's full cumulative history, gated by a minimum sample size — not last week's headline number.

See it running on your own strategies.

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