Use Cases
01 — Forex strategy evaluation
Branch probabilities, EV decomposition, rolling stability, and outlier-robustness testing answer whether a strategy is worth deploying — before capital finds out the hard way. The Weekly Scorecard then keeps grading it live, week after week.
The core idea
How MARS uses this
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.
How it benefits you
The system stays coherent under pressure. A confident setup cannot bypass a damaged gate, a green daily EV cannot outrank drawdown authority, and experiments cannot contaminate live rules. That one constraint eliminates the failure mode that kills most complex trading systems: everything modifying everything.
The MARS authority stack. Authority flows down; evidence flows up; nothing lower may override anything above it.
Worked example
The exposure-pressure chain: authorized pool, minus live open risk, equals fresh capacity - resolved into one deployment directive.
02 — Adaptive risk scaling
The gate ladder, seven-tier model, and throttle authority give a profitable-but-inconsistent trader the one thing they're missing: sizing that responds to drawdown state instead of confidence. Deployment expands in Growth and compresses through Recovery, Buffer, and Floor automatically.
03 — EV & edge validation
03Weekly GREEN/YELLOW/RED tagging, branch EV, blended EV, and net-of-fees verification — for traders testing new strategies or validating that live performance still matches the model that justified deployment.
04 — Drawdown stress testing
Monte Carlo drawdown distributions define expected depth, frequency, and duration. Live drawdown reads against those bands and against gate state — separating normal variance from structural damage with numbers instead of nerves.
05 — Branch variant comparison
Standard versus Conservative versus Aggressive variants, attributed by count, Avg R, EV share, checkpoint hit rates, and net-of-fees results — through the seven-lens permission matrix that keeps aggression evidence-based.
06 — Monte Carlo survivability
Risk-of-ruin and lock-risk analysis across 50,000 paths answers the question a single backtest cannot: how often does following these exact rules still end at the System Lock boundary?
07 — Execution quality review
07MAE/MFE excursions, capture efficiency, giveback, fee R drag, and net outcome R grade the trade lifecycle itself. Profitable weeks with poor capture and heavy friction get flagged as low-quality alpha — because that's what they are.
08 — Live vs benchmark review
Live EV, drawdown, RAPF, RAER, and acceleration compared against benchmark expectations, with every deviation classified as favorable alpha, normal variance, execution drag, or governance failure. Emotional self-assessment, retired.
Inside this module
Connected inside MARS
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