"""Agent 16 — Z-score reversion to SMA, trend-gated (family=meanrev, slug=zrev). THE ANGLE (assigned): reversion of price to its SMA via a CAUSAL rolling z-score — short positive extremes / long negative extremes — WITH A TREND-AGREEMENT GATE. Why the gate is the whole story here. Naive z-reversion (short every z>+thr, long every z<-thr against a price-vs-SMA z-score) LOSES on these two curves: both trend up ~8x/24x over the sample, so a positive z-extreme above a medium SMA is usually momentum that keeps going (study: z>1.5 -> next-bar +0.005/+0.008, NOT a reversal), and shorting it just fights the trend. The reversion that actually exists is the SHORT-HORIZON pullback inside the prevailing trend: * In an UPTREND (price > slow SMA), a negative z-extreme (a dip below the FAST SMA) is a pullback that bounces -> go LONG. (study: UP & z<-1 -> next-bar +0.003 .. +0.012.) * In a DOWNTREND (price < slow SMA), a positive z-extreme (a rally above the FAST SMA) is a dead-cat that fades -> go SHORT. (study: DOWN & z>+1 -> next-bar ~0 .. -0.004.) * A z-extreme that DISAGREES with the trend (rally in an uptrend / dip in a downtrend) is momentum/continuation, not reversion -> stay FLAT (those bins are where naive z-reversion bleeds: UP & z>1 -> +0.003 continuation; you must NOT short it). So the position is the reversion impulse (-z, clipped to extremes) FILTERED by trend agreement: keep only longs in uptrends and shorts in downtrends. A causal vol-target then sizes it so A and B are risk-comparable and exposure shrinks into vol spikes. CAUSAL: zscore(c, FAST) and sma(c, SLOW) at i use only rows <= i; the trend gate and vol_target are trailing. No shift(-k), no centered windows, no global fit. Verified by causality_ok. Tuning (train only, combined A&B; coarse->fine sweep). A CONTINUOUS reversion impulse (-z, saturating) gated by the trend beats sparse extreme-only entries (more of the dips are captured while the gate keeps the trend on your side). The chosen cell is interior on every axis and is a plateau, not a spike: FAST 2..3, SLOW 100..150, Z_SAT 1.5..2.0 all stay in sharpe_min ~0.6..0.8 at DD ~0.06..0.12; SHORT_W 0->0.5 only lowers sharpe_min (the downtrend short reversion fights the structural uptrend). vol_target scales PnL<->DD linearly (sharpe flat), so TARGET_VOL just sets the risk dial. FAST=2, SLOW=120, Z_SAT=1.75, SHORT_W=0.0, TARGET_VOL=0.30, VOL_WIN_DAYS=30, LEV_CAP=2.0 -> train combined: pnl_mean ~0.31, maxdd_worst ~0.11, sharpe_min ~0.78 (a modest PnL at a ~10% drawdown — the reversion-in-trend captures the bounces while sidestepping the big declines, vs long-only buy&hold's huge PnL at ~70-80% DD). """ import numpy as np import blindlib as bl FAST = 2 # short SMA for the reversion z-score (the "stretch from SMA" detector) SLOW = 120 # slow SMA defining the trend regime for the agreement gate Z_SAT = 1.75 # z magnitude that saturates the reversion impulse to +-1 SHORT_W = 0.0 # weight on the (gated) short leg; tuning -> 0 (long-flat best on train) TARGET_VOL = 0.30 VOL_WIN_DAYS = 30 LEV_CAP = 2.0 def signal(df): c = df["close"].values.astype(float) n = len(c) z = np.nan_to_num(bl.zscore(c, FAST), nan=0.0) # price-vs-fast-SMA, standardized (causal) slow = bl.sma(c, SLOW) # trend regime line (causal) uptrend = c > slow # boolean trend gate # reversion impulse = -z: long when price is stretched BELOW its SMA (dip, z<0), # short when stretched ABOVE (rally, z>0). Proportional, saturating at +-Z_SAT. impulse = np.clip(-z / Z_SAT, -1.0, 1.0) # -z direction = reversion to the SMA # TREND-AGREEMENT GATE: keep ONLY longs in an uptrend and shorts in a downtrend. # A z-extreme that DISAGREES with the trend (rally in an uptrend / dip in a downtrend) # is momentum/continuation, not reversion -> stay FLAT. The short leg is gated AND # down-weighted by SHORT_W (tuning drives it to 0: both curves trend up, so the # downtrend-short reversion only adds drawdown here). raw = np.zeros(n) long_ok = (impulse > 0) & uptrend # buy the dip inside an uptrend short_ok = (impulse < 0) & (~uptrend) # fade the rally inside a downtrend raw[long_ok] = impulse[long_ok] raw[short_ok] = impulse[short_ok] * SHORT_W pos = bl.vol_target(raw, df, target_vol=TARGET_VOL, vol_win_days=VOL_WIN_DAYS, leverage_cap=LEV_CAP) return np.clip(np.nan_to_num(pos, nan=0.0), -1.0, 1.0)