Paper → live promotion gate · 7 criteria · strict AND
Readiness gate
Every check must pass before live capital touches the strategy.
Readiness gate
FAIL
5 / 7 checks pass
2 blocking issues
min paper runtime hours
observed 96.0h, need 168.0h
min round trips
observed 312 round trips, need 50
realized slippage within pct
paper avg 2.18bps vs backtest 2.04bps (6.9% off; cap 20.0%)
paper sharpe min
paper sharpe 1.21, need ≥ 1.50
paper max drawdown max
paper drawdown $-18.42, floor $-50.00
no unexplained drift
0 severe reconciler drift events in journal
backtest sharpe min
backtest sharpe 2.31, need ≥ 2.00
local · Run the gate from the CLI:
cuan scalper report --journal ./scalper-paper-journal.jsonl \ --backtest-summary ./bt-summary.json
A pass here is necessary but not sufficient — human review of the journal + arming history is still required before authorising CUANAGENT_LIVE=1.