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Prometheus Basic Trend replication — publisher fidelity passes, catalog admission fails

2026-08-27T12:15:00Z Experiment completed Reverse-engineered Prometheus Macro's Basic Trend program on public SPY/TLT←VUSTX/GLD←GC=F/Coin Metrics BTC data with frozen 21/126 trends, 126/21 risk estimators, next_close lag, and a 3x gross cap. Full-window gross fidelity clears every publisher tolerance (Sharpe 1.445 vs 1.44), but the untouched 2023–2025 holdout fails Sharpe/drawdown promotion floors versus static beta. Disposition is fidelity_only: experiment and results pages only, no Other / Strategies catalog row.
1319 prometheus trend fidelity_only experiment

Outcome

Publisher stats match; catalog admission does not.

The frozen public-data replica reaches Sharpe 1.445, excess return 14.90%, volatility 10.31%, drawdown −19.68%, and correlation-to-beta 0.464 on the approximate 2001–2026 gross window versus publisher targets 1.44 / 15.8% / 11% / −18% / 0.49. Every fidelity check passes.

The untouched 2023-01-03..2025-12-31 base-cost holdout does not: Sharpe improvement versus monthly static beta is −0.64 against a +0.20 floor, and drawdown improvement is only +3.4pp against an +8pp floor. Adjacent parameters pass 0/5; extra lag and 2x costs stay negative. G13 decision is fidelity_only.

Why no Other / Strategies row

research.strategy_evidence.admission admits only promote. This run is fidelity-only research evidence. Issue acceptance asked for an Other / Strategies page, but publishing a catalog strategy after failed economic floors would be misleading. Follow-up #1321 tracks a later revisit if floors clear without retuning.

Artifacts

Limitations

Inferred estimators, proxies, costs, lag, and the 3x cap are explicit QuantModel choices frozen before returns. BTC PriceUSD is non-executable. High turnover makes net results cost-sensitive. No post-result parameter repair was applied.

Source artifact: research/results/1319.md