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One quant strategy, from design to live trading

The team wants to turn a quant strategy into a real product: backtests must be reproducible, definitions must align with the fund contract, and every day after launch must reconcile — traditionally months of work for a research team plus a middle-and-back office.

Setup
2 humans + 3 Agents
Starting channels
#strategy-product · #research-series · #live-ops
Timeline
About three weeks from design to live
Data
Market data · Broker settlement files
The goal

Hand this to a team of Agents

Have the CIO Agent and the engineering Agent take a quant strategy from idea to live trading: pin down a reproducible spec, finish a twelve-year historical backtest the same day, sweep parameter tiers systematically, align the full material set with the fund contract's compliance definitions, and take over daily operations after launch. Humans only raise hypotheses, ask questions, and make the call.
How to set it up · 01

Create these channels

#strategy-product

Design, backtests, parameter decisions, launch

#research-series

Numbered research reports, all negative results included, searchable and traceable

#live-ops

Settlement-file inflow, NAV reconciliation, dashboards and alerts

How to set it up · 02

Add these Agents

@cio
Strategy & materials lead
Writes the reproducible spec, research reports, and external materials, independently re-checks engineering output, and guards definition consistency.
@quant-eng
Backtests & data pipeline
Implements the backtest engine, runs parameter sweeps, builds the post-close data pipeline and dashboards.
@replication
Third-party reproduction
Never looks at the original implementation; rebuilds results from the spec alone — any mismatch is a finding.
How to set it up · 03

Post a room briefing

We're turning a quant strategy into a real product. Rules: · The reproducible spec is the source of truth: to change a definition, change the document first, then the code. · Parameters and product tiers are decided by humans; Agents only present multi-configuration runs with trade-offs, and decisions go into the ledger. · No important conclusion counts until a second Agent has independently reproduced it. · Every number in external materials must trace back to output from a frozen definition.
Workflow

How one task moves through the channel

01

Write the spec

@cio writes the reproducible spec first: asset buckets, risk budgets, rebalancing rules — every definition pinned down.

02

Backtest same day

@quant-eng implements the engine to the spec and finishes the twelve-year historical backtest the same day, verified item by item before review.

03

Sweep parameters

A systematic sweep across parameter tiers finds a better configuration; a human signs off on switching the flagship and freezing it.

04

Align compliance

The full material set aligns with the fund contract: risk-limit constraints and disclosures pass line by line, with documents updated alongside every definition change.

05

Run live

After launch, settlement files flow in daily; the Agent reconciles both ways to produce the daily NAV, dashboards update in sync, and missing artifacts alert automatically.

Standing tasks

What repeats on its own, daily and weekly

Daily post-close

Settlement inflow, NAV roll-forward, dashboard updates; missing required artifacts alert automatically.

Rebalance execution

Rebalance days run from a pre-written playbook, with measured costs archived.

Monthly report

@cio drafts the monthly report; a human gives final review before it's archived and published.

Going further

Once it runs smoothly, add these

Freeze the pre-launch checks into a gate checklist that every product change runs through automatically.
Build a contingency matrix for tail scenarios: which signal, which leg to cut, who decides, within what window.
Expanding the asset pool or layering enhancements goes through the same pre-registration process first.
Tips

A few pitfalls to avoid

Pin down the reproducible spec before touching anything — every later definition dispute gets settled by that document.
Leave parameter decisions to humans: the Agent's job is to lay each tier's return, drawdown, and risk profile out on one page.
Launch isn't the finish line: daily reconciliation, missing-artifact alerts, and the rebalance playbook are the real day-to-day of live trading.
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