Autonomous systems · TradingPaper trading · safety-gated
EDGE Trading
A paper-trading control system that combines deterministic risk gates, immutable accounting, reconciliation, and permission-aware intelligence while keeping live-capital execution disabled.
Outcome / decision impact
Established the accounting, reconciliation, and authorization controls required to evaluate autonomous trading safely before live capital can ever be enabled.
Immutable paper ledgerPre-trade risk kernelLive execution disabled by design
My contributionProduct strategy, system architecture, risk-control design, agent experience, and implementation governance.
01 · Problem
The decision was obscured by fragmented evidence.
A credible trading system needs more than a signal or an attractive interface. EDGE Trading is being built around accounting integrity, pre-trade constraints, auditable state, and explicit authorization boundaries before any broker execution can be considered.02 · System
Designed as a decision surface—not a black box.
- One-screen paper account balance, live trade tape, immutable ledger, and reconciliation state
- Deterministic pre-trade risk kernel with stop-plan and net-expectancy gates
- Broker-neutral canonical models with deposits separated from realized trading P&L
- ASK EDGE read-only intelligence and permission-gated DIRECT EDGE controls
03 · Trust boundary
What this is—and what it is not.
Current state: active paper-trading system with deterministic demonstration data and a public read-only preview. Live brokerage order submission remains disabled until the OMS, position guardian, reconciliation, ledger, adapter certification, safety verification, paper soak, shadow comparison, and explicit limited-live authorization gates are complete.