live · binance spot · ARM64 edge node · tracked since 2026-09-15

Unbiased return, engineered.

AURA is a fully synchronous, parameter-driven trading engine for liquid crypto markets. It executes deterministically, gates risk before capital moves, and treats every live incident as a structural fix — not a manual override.

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live Beating Gold over the current window

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Live dashboard · last 28 sessions

At-a-glance.

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Cumulative return

+0.86%

since 2026-09-15

TWR (annualized)

+12.32%

time-weighted · cash-flow-neutral

Max drawdown

-10.78%

peak-to-trough, intra-window

Sharpe (ann.)

0.49

35 fills · rf = 0

Benchmark deltas · current live window

AURA return vs. equally-anchored passive holds of each asset.

2026-09-15 → 2026-10-12

Bitcoin (BTC)

trails

AURA

+0.86%

BTC

+10.90%

-10.03 pp

Gold (PAXG)

beats

AURA

+0.86%

Gold

-2.09%

+2.95 pp

S&P 500 (SPY)

trails

AURA

+0.86%

SPY

+3.05%

-2.19 pp

Two tracks

Research-grade backtest. Live deployment. No daylight between methodology and execution.

research · walk-forward 2025-11-14 → 2026-05-13

Backtest, post-cost · last validated slate

The walk-forward optimizer evaluates each parameter combination across multiple historical windows under successive-halving. Only knobs that beat both Gold and SPY survive promotion.

AURA total: +141.3%
Annualized: +497%
Sharpe: 3.64

vs. SPY: +130.8 pp
vs. Gold: +126.1 pp
Max DD: 14.95%

live · binance spot 2026-09-15 → 2026-10-12

Live execution · current window

Real capital, real fees, real slippage. The system absorbs deposits/withdrawals via time-weighted return, so performance %s never reflect cash flows — only investment skill.

Return: +0.86%
TWR (ann.): +12.32%
Sharpe: 0.49

vs. BTC: -10.0 pp
vs. Gold: +2.9 pp
vs. SPY: -2.2 pp

Backtests are run by a fully independent walk-forward optimizer. The same hot-reloadable parameter file feeds both research and live — there is no manual translation step.

What systematic execution actually requires

Three properties we never compromise on.

Benchmark-Beating Alpha

Every position is the deterministic output of a pre-committed parameter set, tuned against rolling historical windows. Walk-forward optimization only promotes knobs that beat both Gold and SPY across the validation slate.

Risk-Adjusted Returns

Three concentric gates — kill-switch, per-position SL/TP, portfolio-level cost-benefit — must clear before any capital moves. Annualized Sharpe and bounded drawdown sit at the heart of the score, not raw return.

Regime-Aware Allocation

A two-cycle regime hysteresis suppresses bull / sideways / bear flips. In low-conviction tape, capital is rotated defensively (tokenized gold / Bitcoin) under regime-specific utilization caps.

What this solves

A discretionary trader's failure modes, removed at the protocol level.

Emotional bias: Pre-committed thresholds executed by code, not a human at 3 a.m.
Execution latency: Single-threaded determinism with idempotent retries — no event-loop races, no double-fills.
Risk containment: Kill-switch on rolling drawdown plus per-position SL/TP. Losses are bounded, not improvised.
Parameter drift: Walk-forward optimization promotes only parameters that survive across multiple historical windows.