HOKUTO

HOKUTO

Live on Hyperliquid

We don't predict the market. We measure it and hold course.

Return on capital

北斗  ·  seven stars, one bearing

The seven

The four gates and the three rules.

A strategy walks the first four stars in order — measured, tried, graded, auditioned — and any one of them can end it. The last three are not gates. They apply to everything that got through, for as long as it keeps trading.

POLARIS THE FOUR GATES THE THREE RULES

    The graveyard

    Most of what we build does not survive the tribunal. This is the part nobody publishes.

    A promotion funnel is only meaningful if things actually die in it. These did, with the measurement that killed them.

    22 synthetic TradFi markets
    — oil, indices, semiconductor names
    Zero qualifying setups across 45 configurations. The order books are market-maker quoted; the event we trade never forms, not even on a 12% intraday range.
    Funding harvest $0.43 accrued against $12.50 of execution cost over ten cycles. The strategy is sound. Our capital base is not.
    Re-entry on a second touch
    of the same level
    Positive on paper, −$450 across 600 trades once fees were real. One entry per level per day is the strategy, not a safety blanket.
    Two new markets,
    a full week of tape each
    Neither produced a tradeable signal at any threshold. Volume is not liquidity, and liquidity is not structure.
    Four analysis engines,
    retired the same day
    280 graded signals, −40R, no path to capital. Deleted, not demoted.
    A signal-quality discovery,
    retracted within a day
    It held on the pooled data and evaporated once split by engine. Simpson's paradox, caught before it reached the sizing logic.

    Everything above was built, measured and thrown away. The list is longer than the list of what runs.

    Live record

    Read from exchange fills. Percentages only.

    Account size and dollar figures are not published. When the capital base moves, only a percentage stays honest.

    Return on capital
    Today Since 00:00 UTC
    Closed trades
    Win rate Closed positions
    Equity curve — return on capital Connecting
    ClosedMarketResult

    Waiting for the exchange feed.

    Research

    Notes from the parts of the system that are hard to get right.

    Method

    How we nearly shipped a false discovery

    A signal-quality metric separated winners from losers cleanly across thirty live trades. Split by engine, the effect disappeared: it had been measuring which engine traded, not which signal was good. Simpson's paradox, one day from reaching the sizing logic.

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    Execution

    The wick our breakeven never saw

    The backtest armed protection the moment price touched a level. The live module sampled price on an interval, so a wick that crossed and bounced between two samples was forgotten entirely. The policy was sound; the implementation was less faithful than the test that authorised it.

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    Microstructure

    Two engines, one coin

    Positions net per market on-chain. When one strategy opened against another's live position, the exchange resolved the conflict silently and one engine's trade simply ceased to exist — while its stop order remained, sized for a position that was no longer there.

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    What we don't claim

    The record is short. It starts on and a short record is not evidence, no matter how well it is presented. Read it as a sample, not as a result.

    A losing month is expected. When one arrives it will be published here, in the same place and at the same size as the gains, because a record that only shows the good periods is a brochure.

    Anyone promising steady returns is selling something. Perpetual futures do not produce steady returns. They produce a distribution with a real tail, and the tail arrives on its own schedule.

    We publish no account size and no dollars. The unit on this page is percent of capital, and every figure on it is read from exchange fills. If a number cannot be sourced there, it is shown as an em dash.

    Past performance measures the past. It is not a forecast, and nothing on this page should be read as one.

    Contact

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