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Use Case 08 — Live vs Benchmark Review

The objective mirror.

The review

Five metrics against the envelope.

Each review period, live values locate themselves inside the simulated benchmark bands — equity against percentile paths, drawdown against distributions, quality metrics against expected ranges, gate dwell and tier usage against the model.

The classification

Every deviation gets a name.

Deviation from the benchmark is not automatically good or bad — it's unclassified until the taxonomy runs:

  • Favorable alpha — outperformance with healthy structure behind it.
  • Normal variance — inside the bands; no action earned.
  • Execution drag — the rules are fine; the execution is leaking.
  • Governance failure — overrides, gate violations, or discipline breaks explain the gap.

Modules involved

The mirror stack.

The Dynamic Seven-Tier MC Benchmark supplies the ruler, the Live-Trade Benchmark Comparison runs the read, and CP3 provides the live truth being measured.

How MARS uses this

Every proposed rule change - stop policy, branch weights, fee model - is cloned into a scenario profile and resampled against the same evidence. The grid renders the trade-offs, and only profiles whose edge survives without deepening the P10 tail earn candidate status for live promotion.

How it benefits you

System changes stop being vibes-based. The tempting tweak that costs 0.07R of expectancy for a modest drawdown saving gets rejected by arithmetic before it silently taxes six months of trading - and promising candidates carry their evidence with them into review.

BASELINE

LIVE
EV +0.31RP10 DD −14.8%

current governing profile

TIGHTER STOPS

REJECTED
EV +0.24RP10 DD −11.2%

EV cost exceeds drawdown saving

TNP WEIGHT +10

SANDBOX
EV +0.36RP10 DD −19.6%

edge up, adverse tail deepens

FEE MODEL B

CANDIDATE
EV +0.33RP10 DD −14.9%

friction saving survives resampling

Four scenario profiles judged side by side: expectancy, adverse-tail cost, and a verdict. Changes graduate through this grid or not at all.

Doctrine

Connected inside MARS

This module doesn't work alone.

Connected — 01

All eight use cases

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Connected — 02

Live-Trade Benchmark Comparison

Open system page →

Connected — 03

7-Tier MC Benchmark

Open system page →

Go deeper

Operator briefs on this territory.

Deep dive — 01

The benchmark is built from your own rules, so beating it is not a discovery.

You cannot outperform your own rules by following them. So what is the comparison for?

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Deep dive — 02

What has to be true before a simulation may be called a benchmark.

The conditions a simulation must satisfy before it is allowed to govern deployment.

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Deep dive — 03

A benchmark measuring a system you no longer run.

Monthly bands, quarterly survival, event-driven rebuilds — and a regeneration log saying which ruler graded which weeks.

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