Most trading systems treat signal calibration as a launch event. Alpha Journal treats it as a continuous closed loop — and that distinction is worth more than any single signal.
The bot was right. The timing was wrong. v4.x had a fundamental reactive architecture problem — by the time signals scored, the CLOB asks were too expensive. v5.0 solved it with event-driven candle boundaries and predictive early-window scoring.
The signal stack I built for prediction markets turns out to work on perpetual futures — with modifications. Here's how a 9-factor scoring engine, conviction-scaled leverage, and six independent risk gates become a perps trading system.