December 2025: −4.70%, drawdown deepens to −4.9%, no per-instrument breakdown
Published retrospectively: this report and the others for November 2025 to April 2026 were first published together on 9 and 10 May 2026, after the months they cover.
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The numbers
| This month | YTD | Since inception | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return | −4.70% | −2.28% | −2.28% |
| Sharpe (ann.) | −3.36 | −0.82 | −0.82 |
| Max drawdown (in window) | −4.72% | −4.97% | −4.97% |
| Hit rate (daily) | 45.5% | 48.7% | 48.7% |
| Drawdown state at MTD | −4.9% from peak |
What drove it
Per-instrument attribution is not available for December — daily_attribution.total_pnl_pct was empty for every instrument in this window. The headline number above is the sum of strategy-level daily P&L; the per-instrument breakdown that the dashboard normally surfaces did not reconstruct from upstream reports for this period.
At the strategy level: −4.70% with a daily Sharpe of −3.36 (the worst monthly Sharpe in the captured window). The hit rate dropped from 52.9% in November to 45.5%, and the max intra-month drawdown of −4.72% was not recovered — the system finished December −4.9% from peak, the deepest drawdown to date in this window. The shape of the move (low hit rate combined with a negative monthly mean) is consistent with a regime change against the system's prevailing positions rather than noise on a still-favourable signal.
How the rules performed
Rule-family attribution is not yet available for December — daily_attribution.rule_contributions was empty for the days in this window. This section will become quantitative once the persistence pipeline has accumulated a full month of data.
What changed
No methodology or operational changes this month.
Current positioning
- Annualised portfolio risk: —
- Margin usage: —
Looking forward
January begins with the system −4.9% from peak — the deepest drawdown captured in this run. Position-level data for end-December was not persisted, so the January distribution of contributors will be the first read on which trades broke. Two months of data (a +2.54% gain and a −4.70% loss) is far too few to draw any inference about signal degradation; the order matters less than what the next two or three months show. The published methodology and forecast caps did not change in December (What changed is empty); the loss came through the same rules that produced November's gain.
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