MARS Overview · The Core Idea
How MARS uses this
MARS never trusts a single blended figure. Weekly branch probabilities produce a separate EV per branch, weighted by the live profile (45 / 33.75 / 11.25 / 10 by default) into the blend. Reviews read the decomposition first: which branch produced the edge, which one leaked it, and whether the weights still match the evidence.
How it benefits you
You stop repairing the wrong thing. When results dip, the decomposition shows whether the whole system weakened or one branch is dragging - so you fix a branch instead of overhauling a working system, and you spot a single strong branch masking weakness everywhere else.
Branch-level EV decomposition with blend weights. The blended number alone would hide exactly this picture.
The core idea
A trader may still make discretionary execution decisions — but capital deployment must never be discretionary chaos. MARS measures whether trades are selected, sized, managed, logged, and interpreted correctly across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, and structural horizons.
Where it lives
This page expands one card of the MARS Overview page into its own reference. For orientation, the module's own framing: MARS is a professional-grade discretionary-quant trading framework. It is not a journal, not a dashboard, not a risk calculator — it is an integrated operating system that routes every trade, every risk decision, every branch, and every review cycle through structured quantitative governance.
What each side cannot do
Pure discretion fails at honesty — nobody audits themselves under pressure. Pure automation fails at reading live structure — markets present context no backtest enumerated. The core idea is not a compromise between the two but a division along their actual failure lines: judgment where judgment wins, arithmetic where arithmetic does.
Doctrine
Reference
Every decision in MARS is routed through this hierarchy in order. The plan defines doctrine; gate state defines capital posture; the throttle converts posture into deployment numbers; evidence and diagnostics inform from below; R&D stays sandboxed at the bottom until validated. When layers disagree, the higher layer wins - always.
The MARS authority stack. Authority flows down; evidence flows up; nothing lower may override anything above it.
Connected inside MARS
Go deeper
Deep dive — 01
Discretion in trade selection, governance in capital deployment. The line is the whole design.
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Deep dive — 02
Not a compromise. A division along the two approaches' actual failure lines.
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Deep dive — 03
Five verbs, five audits, five distinct ways a trade goes wrong without ever being a bad idea.
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