Honesty doctrine. Every candidate anomaly is an artifact until proven otherwise; in-sample results are never findings; past statistical regularity does not imply future returns. This is research on statistical properties of market data — not investment advice, not a trading system.

Experiments

Every experiment carries a registered hypothesis with an explicit falsification criterion and its artifact null(s), a benchmark implementation, raw results, and an analysis. Detectors must first pass the synthetic-series tests — a detector that finds anomalies in a random walk is broken. Negative results are kept.

expA_data_reality

Data reality check: what hfmarketdata.io actually returns (granularity, depth, timestamps, corporate actions, limits)

completed 1 result run

expB_artifact_baselines

Artifact baselines: null distributions of bounce, staleness, non-synchronous lead-lag

completed 1 result run

expC_reversion_scan

Mean-reversion scan: variance ratios, half-life, AR tests net of the bounce null

completed 1 result run

expD_leadlag_scan

Lead-lag scan: lagged cross-correlations and Granger, separating timestamp artifacts

completed 1 result run

expE_calendar_scan

Calendar scan: intraday, day-of-week, turn-of-month with pre-counted hypothesis budget

completed 1 result run

expF_multiple_testing

Multiple-testing survival: White RC, SPA, FDR, deflated Sharpe on C-E output

completed 1 result run

expG_cost_frontier

Cost frontier: transaction-cost sweep, where each surviving net effect crosses zero

scaffolded

expH_oos_stability

Out-of-sample stability: once-touched holdout and sub-period evaluation of survivors

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candidate_01

H15 — Intraday momentum post-publication decay (Gao et al. 2018 spec frozen; 2018–2026 OOS; gamma-state proxy from options chains).

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candidate_02

H13 — Turn-of-month 2006–2026: did the last calendar survivor (Marquering et al. 2006) survive? One pre-registered window (−1..+3), permuted-calendar null, SPA.

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candidate_03

H11 + H03 — Index-artifact decomposition: SPX→SPY 1min lead as pure print-staleness, and the Fisher share of index VR momentum (SPX vs SPY divergence).

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