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Paper to Live Promotion

Criteria and process for promoting strategies from paper to live trading.

Prerequisites

  • Audit status: PASS
  • Paper trading: 2+ weeks
  • Backtest parity: within 20%
  • No execution issues

Promotion Criteria

Metric Minimum Paper Period
Sharpe ≥0.8 30 days
Max DD ≤8% 30 days
Win Rate ≥50% 50+ trades
Slippage ≤2 ticks avg All trades

Checklist

Before Promotion

  • Review audit verdict
  • Verify paper metrics
  • Check risk limits config
  • Test kill switch
  • Notify stakeholders

During Promotion

  • Start with minimal size (10% target)
  • Monitor first 10 trades closely
  • Compare to paper fills
  • Check for anomalies

After Promotion

  • Scale up gradually (25% → 50% → 100%)
  • Daily performance review
  • Weekly full audit
  • 30-day comprehensive review

Rollback Criteria

Immediately pause if: - Daily loss > 3% - Total DD > 6% - 5+ consecutive losses - Execution anomalies

Documentation

Update after promotion: - docs/manifests/STRAT_XX_live.md - Strategy status in README - Monitoring dashboards