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Evidence & §18

Why a strategy book goes live only on genuine, attributed, positive-net evidence — never on a signal, a backtest, or a screenshot.

The §18 requirement

Live promotion requires genuine attributed positive-net evidence — at least 20 attributed positive-net closes over 168h at 8 bps ENFORCE plus operator approval. Nothing goes live until the evidence corpus mathematically crosses that bar and an operator explicitly approves.

The rules

  • A signal is not a trade.
  • A book is not a regime is not a detector-result is not a blocker-reason is not a trade.
  • Paper, shadow, RAG, video, and screenshots are research only and never count for §18.
  • Deferred, dirty, and ghost closes are excluded from the evidence corpus.
  • No fake evidence.

Why it matters

The evidence gate is what separates a hypothesis from a live edge. A book can fire thousands of times and still hold zero live authority until it earns genuine attributed positive-net closes. See the go-live readiness flow for the operator decision, and the Risk Disclosure — no trading strategy guarantees profit.

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