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Backtest Run Inventory

All backtest runs referenced anywhere in the paper, grouped by experiment.

Run artifacts live under <repo_root>/reports/backtest/<run_id>/ and contain:

  • metrics.json — summary metrics (total_return, max_drawdown, sharpe_ratio, total_trades, avg_position_days, avg_cash_ratio, avg_gross_exposure, value_filter_pass_rate, etc.)
  • trades.csv — per-trade log (date, ticker, action, shares, price, value, justification)
  • equity_curve.csv — daily portfolio time series (date, total_value, daily_return, cashflow=cash_balance, benchmark_value, benchmark_return)
  • backtest_report.md — human-readable summary

Multi-mandate comparison bundles live under <repo_root>/reports/multi_personality/<bundle>/ and contain:

  • comparison_data.json — mapping from mandate key to its run ID, return, MDD, trade count, and aggregated metrics
  • comparison_report.md — human-readable summary
  • personality_summary.csv — flat CSV summary

Experiment 1 — Six-month main case study (the headline result)

Mandate US run (Sep 1 2025 – Feb 28 2026, 124 trading days) CN run (Sep 1 2025 – Feb 28 2026, 102 trading days)
Fundamental Value mp_fundamental_value_20260409_165131_876468 mp_fundamental_value_20260413_163905_878961
Macro Tactical mp_macro_tactical_20260409_165131_876505 mp_macro_tactical_20260413_163905_878979
Behavioral Momentum mp_behavioral_momentum_20260409_165131_876499 mp_behavioral_momentum_20260413_163905_878974
Low-Volatility (Smart Beta) mp_smart_beta_passive_20260409_165131_876510 mp_smart_beta_passive_20260413_163905_878984
Equal-Weight (Baseline) mp_equal_weight_index_20260409_165131_876514 mp_equal_weight_index_20260413_163905_878987
  • US comparison bundle: multi_personality/20260409_165121_176781/
  • CN comparison bundle: multi_personality/20260413_163854_715331/
  • Initial capital: $100,000 (each market)
  • Universe: 20 tickers per market on a 5×4 sector/style grid (Appendix Table~\ref{tab:sector_style_universe})
  • Backend: DeepSeek-V3.2

Experiment 2 — Full-run reproducibility (US 6M, Run 2)

Independent re-run of all five US 6M mandates with identical configuration to Experiment 1.

Mandate US Run 2
Fundamental Value mp_fundamental_value_20260425_035029_413185
Macro Tactical mp_macro_tactical_20260425_035029_413208
Behavioral Momentum mp_behavioral_momentum_20260425_035029_413202
Low-Volatility (Smart Beta) mp_smart_beta_passive_20260425_035029_413212
Equal-Weight (Baseline) mp_equal_weight_index_20260425_035029_413216

Experiment 3 — US 3M mechanism ablation (Dec 1 2025 – Feb 28 2026)

Each LLM-conditioned mandate has a Full variant (full doctrine) and one Ablated variant (a single guardrail removed).

Mandate / variant Run ID
Fundamental Value — Full 20260417_160942
Fundamental Value — No filter 20260417_191443
Behavioral Momentum — Full 20260417_220721
Behavioral Momentum — No guardrails 20260418_004927
Macro Tactical — Full 20260418_033940
Macro Tactical — No tilt 20260418_072633
Low-Volatility — Reference 20260418_110947
Equal-Weight — Reference 20260418_111210

Experiment 4 — US 3M backend robustness (GPT-5.4 replacement)

Same 3M window as Experiment 3, but the reasoning backend swapped from DeepSeek-V3.2 to GPT-5.4 while every other component is held fixed.

Mandate GPT-5.4 run
Fundamental Value 20260423_124148
Macro Tactical 20260424_094955
Behavioral Momentum 20260424_132728_372104
Low-Volatility 20260424_094956
Equal-Weight 20260424_132723_271683

These per-run metrics are also aggregated into derived/gpt54_robustness/backend_comparison.csv, which is what the generate_backend_robustness_figure.py script consumes.

Experiment 5 — Execution efficiency ablation (CN, 10 tickers, 6M)

Three execution paths (E0/E1/E2) on a fixed business setting (10 CN tickers, multi-mandate, Sep 1 2025 – Feb 28 2026), used only to demonstrate runtime/cost reductions enabled by shared phase-one preprocessing and warm artifact caching.

Path Run ID Wall-clock
E0 (baseline) 20260308_032534_600248 43.73 h
E1 (optimized cold-cache) 20260308_164113_268847 10.79 h
E2 (optimized warm-cache) 20260309_120759_016922 10.82 h

Source doc: docs/2026-03-23-cn-10tickers-6m-efficiency-ablation.md.