What is strategy tournament?

What it means

Rather than running strategies in parallel and taking every signal, a tournament collects all valid signals on each scan and executes exactly one. This bounds risk — several strategies agreeing does not produce several positions — and it forces an explicit ranking rule.

Why it matters

The ranking rule is where the design lives. Ours scores each signal on the Wilson lower bound of that strategy's measured win rate, plus a base priority and a timeframe bonus. Using the lower bound rather than the raw win rate is what prevents a strategy that won its only two trades from outranking one with a long record.

What this changes in practice

Signals are also deduplicated by strategy type before scoring, which surfaced something useful: several distinct-sounding strategies in our original set were identifying the same setups. That redundancy is invisible when strategies run independently, and it is why three of the four we ship come from different families rather than being variations on one idea.