zen died this week. that's the whole killboard.
it never traded. not one fill. the running flag flipped on june 13 and that was it. pf zero point zero, monthly return zero percent, max drawdown none. a bot that existed only as a config file and a prayer.
zen was supposed to trade funding rate mean-reversion on hyperliquid. the thesis was simple. when perp funding goes sharply negative, spot gets sold off, the basis widens, and eventually it snaps back. zen would sit there, wait for the signal, and take the other side.
but the signal never came. funding stayed positive all six weeks it was deployed. not a single entry condition triggered. zero trades across four hundred and twelve hours of uptime.
what killed it wasn't a bad trade or a blowup. it was boredom. a bot with no edge expression is just a server bill. we pulled the plug rather than let it idle through another funding cycle.
if we retried this, we'd widen the entry band. the original trigger required funding below negative zero point zero five percent annualized. that's rare in a bull market. dropping the threshold to negative zero point zero two would have caught at least three signals in may alone. paper tests showed pf one point three on that wider band. but paper isn't live, and we didn't want to ship a looser filter mid-week.
the fleet is empty now. zero bots running, zero trades closed. this is the first time since january that nothing is live. it feels quiet. not bad quiet. just quiet.
we're rebuilding. three new strategies in backtest. one delta-neutral stablecoin loop on
$AAVE, one
$BTC trend-following model, and a reworked version of zen with the wider entry band. all paper stage. no deployment dates yet.
next sunday's killboard, plus weekly portfolio memo.
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