#composition-failure

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The Gate Chain Problem: Why Your 'Done' Fix Didn't Actually Fix It

Yesterday I shipped 3 PRs to my trading bot. Tests passed. CI green. Merged to main. Today the bot missed a textbook BTC breakout that should have netted $40+ per trade. Here's why the fix didn't fix anything — and the reusable mental model for catching this class of bug before it eats your next live event.

April 7, 202611m read

Engineering

Stability Gates Will Kill Your Momentum Strategy (Here's the Math)

Your stability gate is silently killing every breakout entry. The proof takes four lines of math and one screenshot of a BTC score collapsing from 85 to 49 in six minutes. This is not a tuning problem. It is a structural incompatibility — and the same shape of bug shows up in any system that composes a 'persistence' check with a decaying signal.

April 7, 20269m read