"""SEA08 — US-session momentum on 1h bars. HYPOTHESIS: On 1h: go long during 13-21 UTC when the prior (Asian+London) session was positive; otherwise flat. Idea: captures US risk-on drift when prior price action was constructive. CAUSALITY CHECK: - "Prior session" = we look at the cumulative return of bars from the prior day's Asian+London window (00-12 UTC) that CLOSED before bar[i]. - We compute the prior-session return as the log return from close[previous_day_00:00 UTC] to close[current_day_12:00 UTC], decided at bar[i] open (i.e., at close[i-1]). - Actually, we'll compute it simpler: the bar that ENDS at 12:00 UTC (the last Asian/London bar), and compare vs the bar that started the day (00:00 UTC). - For each hourly bar[i], at close[i-1] (= open of bar[i]), we know: * current UTC hour of bar[i] * the close at 12:00 UTC of today (if past 12:00) * the open at 00:00 UTC of today - Implementation: for each bar ending at time t (with UTC hour h): * If h in [13,21]: session is active * prior_session_return = (close at 12:00 of the current day / close at 00:00 of current day) - 1 * We read close[i-1] with hour h (0-indexed, bar closes at h:00 UTC = bar represents h-1:00 to h:00) * Position at bar i = long (1.0) if h in [14..22] (bars DURING 13-21 UTC) AND prior session positive Wait - let me be precise about 1h bar labeling: - A bar timestamped at "13:00 UTC" represents the candle from 12:00 to 13:00 UTC. - "close[13:00]" = price at end of 13:00 bar = price at 13:00 UTC. For US session: we want to be long FROM 13:00 UTC TO 21:00 UTC. - We want to hold during bars whose close times are 14:00, 15:00, ..., 21:00 UTC (i.e., the bar from 13:00-14:00, ..., 20:00-21:00). CAUSAL DECISION AT close[i]: - For each bar[i], we compute target[i] (what position to hold during bar i+1). - Bar i+1 closes at hour h+1. - We want to be long during bar i+1 if h+1 in {14,15,...,21}. - So target[i] = 1 if h in {13,...,20} AND prior_session_ret > 0. - prior_session_ret: from close at midnight (00:00 UTC) to close at noon (12:00 UTC) of the same day. - At close[i] with h in [13..20], we already know close[12:00] of today (it's in the past). GRID: 3 variants tested to find best config: 1. Pure time filter (no prior session condition) 2. Prior session > 0 (baseline hypothesis) 3. Prior session + vol-target scaling We keep TF = 1h only (the hypothesis is inherently intraday on 1h bars). Total backtests: 1 tf × 3 variants × 2 assets = 6. Within budget. """ import sys sys.path.insert(0, "/opt/docker/PythagorasGoal/scripts/research/alt") import altlib as al import numpy as np import pandas as pd def _build_session_features(df: pd.DataFrame): """ For each 1h bar at index i: - dt[i] = the UTC datetime when this bar closes (label of bar) - hour[i] = UTC hour of bar close - prior_session_ret[i] = return from close at 00:00 UTC to close at 12:00 UTC of the same day as bar[i], computed CAUSALLY (only available if bar[i] closes after 12:00 UTC). Returns (hour_arr, prior_session_ret_arr). """ dt = pd.to_datetime(df["datetime"], utc=True) close = df["close"].values.astype(float) n = len(df) hour_arr = dt.dt.hour.values # UTC hour of bar close # Build a lookup: for each (date, hour_target) -> close price # We need close at 00:00 UTC and close at 12:00 UTC for each date. # # The bar timestamped/labeled at 00:00 UTC closes at midnight = end of prior day. # So "open of day" price = close of the 23:00 bar (previous day) or close of 00:00 bar. # # Let's use simpler: close at 12:00 UTC bar (hour==12) as end of prior session. # Anchor = close at 00:00 UTC bar (hour==0) as start of day. # prior_session_ret = close[12:00] / close[00:00] - 1, for the same calendar date. # # To be causal at bar[i] with hour[i] >= 13: we need close[12:00] of same day, # which was available since 12:00 UTC (in the past). # Build date -> index of 00:00 and 12:00 bars dates = dt.dt.date.values # For each bar, find the closest prior-session data prior_ret = np.full(n, np.nan) # Create a series indexed by datetime for easy lookup close_series = pd.Series(close, index=dt) # Group by date to find the 00:00 and 12:00 anchors per day date_anchors = {} # date -> (close_00, close_12) for i in range(n): d = dates[i] h = hour_arr[i] if d not in date_anchors: date_anchors[d] = [np.nan, np.nan] # [close_00, close_12] if h == 0: date_anchors[d][0] = close[i] elif h == 12: date_anchors[d][1] = close[i] # Now fill prior_ret for each bar for i in range(n): d = dates[i] h = hour_arr[i] # Only compute if bar is in US session window and after 12:00 UTC if h >= 13 and d in date_anchors: c00, c12 = date_anchors[d] if np.isfinite(c00) and np.isfinite(c12) and c00 > 0: prior_ret[i] = c12 / c00 - 1.0 return hour_arr, prior_ret def target_time_only(df: pd.DataFrame) -> np.ndarray: """ Variant 1: Pure US-session time filter (13-21 UTC), no prior-session condition. Long during US session hours, flat otherwise. target[i] = 1.0 if bar[i+1] is in US session, else 0.0 = 1.0 if hour[i] in {13,...,20} (so bar i+1 closes at 14..21 UTC). """ hour_arr, _ = _build_session_features(df) # target[i] = position held during bar i+1 # bar i+1 closes at hour (hour_arr[i] + 1) % 24 approximately, # but let's use: hold long if hour[i] in 13..20 so we're long during 13:00->21:00 window target = np.where((hour_arr >= 13) & (hour_arr <= 20), 1.0, 0.0) return target def target_prior_session_momentum(df: pd.DataFrame) -> np.ndarray: """ Variant 2: Long during US session (13-21 UTC) ONLY IF prior session (00-12 UTC) was positive. """ hour_arr, prior_ret = _build_session_features(df) # Propagate prior_ret within the US session of the same day # For bars in 13-21 UTC, prior_ret should already be set. # For continuity: once we set prior_ret at h=13, keep it for h=14..20 of same day. # Actually our loop sets it for all h>=13 of each day already. us_session = (hour_arr >= 13) & (hour_arr <= 20) prior_positive = np.isfinite(prior_ret) & (prior_ret > 0) target = np.where(us_session & prior_positive, 1.0, 0.0) return target def target_prior_session_vol_targeted(df: pd.DataFrame) -> np.ndarray: """ Variant 3: Like Variant 2 but with vol-targeting (20% annualized vol, cap 2x). """ direction = target_prior_session_momentum(df) return al.vol_target(direction, df, target_vol=0.20, vol_win_days=30, leverage_cap=2.0) if __name__ == "__main__": print("SEA08 — US-session momentum on 1h bars") print("Testing 3 variants on 1h TF...") print() # Variant 1: pure time filter rep1 = al.study_weights("SEA08-v1-time-only", target_time_only, tfs=("1h",)) print(al.fmt(rep1)) print() # Variant 2: prior session momentum condition rep2 = al.study_weights("SEA08-v2-prior-session", target_prior_session_momentum, tfs=("1h",)) print(al.fmt(rep2)) print() # Variant 3: vol-targeted version rep3 = al.study_weights("SEA08-v3-vol-target", target_prior_session_vol_targeted, tfs=("1h",)) print(al.fmt(rep3)) print() # Pick the best config by holdout Sharpe reps = [rep1, rep2, rep3] best = max(reps, key=lambda r: r["verdict"].get("best_holdout_sharpe", -9)) print("=== BEST CONFIG ===") print(al.fmt(best)) print() print("JSON:", al.as_json(best))