Research Pillar

Governance & Discipline

Process that survives cycles. This pillar documents decision hygiene, drawdown policy, and model governance so allocators can see not just what happened, but why. Governance exists to prevent narrative drift under stress.

Market Structure System Architecture Infrastructure & Integrity Governance & Discipline Global Markets

What this pillar covers

Decision hygiene: how humans interact with a rules-based engine
Drawdown policy: halts, cool-downs, and pre-committed responses
Model governance: change control, versioning, and sign-off logic
Audit trails that survive stress: evidence over storytelling
Preventing discretionary override from becoming hidden strategy drift

Core research programs

Governance

Decision hygiene

Program · Human-in-the-loop discipline

Protecting the engine from discretionary override and narrative drift. Focus: decision protocols, when humans are allowed to intervene, and how interventions are documented and bounded.

Risk Policy

Drawdown & halt policy

Program · Hard rules around pain

Pre-agreed responses to loss so decisions aren't made inside the drawdown. Focus: halts, cool-downs, reduced allocation rules, and behaviour-based escalation paths.

Audit

6-month audit

Program · Verified behaviour

What a verified, live audit actually proves about system integrity. Focus: evidence standards, what counts as "behaviour preserved," and why audits under stress matter more than summaries.

Research in Governance & Discipline

4 days ago · 13 min read

Governance & Discipline

Model Governance: Change Control and Versioning

Why Model Governance Defines System Longevity Model governance determines whether a systematic trading engine remains trustworthy over time. Most infrastructure discussions focus on signal quality, execution logic, or regime classification. However, the governance layer that controls how a model changes, who authorises those changes, and how prior versions stay accessible often receives the least design...

4 months ago · 13 min read

Governance & Discipline

Pre-Commitment Rules: Decisions Made Before Pain Arrives

Pre-Commitment Rules: Decisions Made Before Pain Arrives Most systematic trading systems fail not because their logic breaks or their data degrades, but because systems still allow critical decisions during periods of maximum stress. Pre-commitment rules eliminate this structural weakness by removing choice at the exact moment when judgment becomes unreliable. In behaviour-first systematic trading infrastructure,...