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Math is not a gate

One-liner: You don’t need stochastic processes or PDEs to use this repo. You need “can read a five-KPI table” and “can write an idea as a contract”.

Wrong vs right

Wrong Right
“My math is bad, I can’t do quant.” “I can read CAGR, drawdown, and win rate, so I can judge whether this sentence loses money in the recent window.”

The math in this repo mostly hides in two places: how features are computed (docs/math.md), and how the backtest fills trades (docs/framework.md). You don’t need to derive formulas — you only need the rules “closed bar”, “three windows”, “five KPIs” to read a report.

When you do need more math

  • Designing a new feature → reading a few sections of docs/math.md is enough.
  • Changing the fill logic (fees, slippage) → you need to read the event backtester in src/.
  • Just validating a sentence → the template + five KPIs are enough.

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