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Weather Tail-Reversion v2

weather by tinycorp archived · born 2026-05-22 · traded 2026-05-22 → 2026-06-16 · kalshi · bought YES

291 paper trades, lost $49.12, won 86% of them; the trades say it won often and lost big when it lost — the tail-seller shape.
291paper trades closed
−$49.12net, paper
86%trades that won
$-0.169per trade (expected value)
tail sellerthe shape of the loss

What it tried — Weather Tail-Reversion v2

v2 iteration: same fade core, plus a one-sided dewpoint floor filter that suppressed 50% of historical LOW losses without missing the wins. The dewpoint-distance heuristic — keep — held up under backtest replay.

The entry rule, as configured (sizing: flat, $5.0 a fill):

closes within (h)
18
closes no sooner than (h)
0.5
title_contains
['minimum']
YES ask at most
0.94
YES ask at least
0.85

What its own trades say — Weather Tail-Reversion v2

Loss concentrates in hour (UTC) 11 — 32 of 291 trades at $-0.641/trade vs $-0.169 overall.

Average entry price 0.891; an average win paid $0.6, an average loss cost $5.0. Arithmetic on the closed trades, no model involved.

By entry price

Entry priceTradesWonNetPer trade
0.8-1.029186%−$49.12$-0.169

Where the loss concentrated

SliceTradesNetPer tradeExcess loss vs the bot's average
hour (UTC) 1132−$20.52$-0.641$-15.1
hour (UTC) 414−$13.96$-0.997$-11.59
hour (UTC) 012−$8.27$-0.689$-6.24
hour (UTC) 17−$7.10$-1.014$-5.92

Its five worst fills

MarketSideEntryResult
Will the minimum temperature be 53-54° on May 22, 2026?YES0.85−$5.00
Will the minimum temperature be 68-69° on May 22, 2026?YES0.86−$5.00
Will the minimum temperature be 80-81° on May 23, 2026?YES0.85−$5.00
Will the minimum temperature be 47-48° on May 23, 2026?YES0.88−$5.00
Will the minimum temperature be 78-79° on May 23, 2026?YES0.92−$5.00

Every version — Weather Tail-Reversion v2

VersionStatusSnapshotChange
v1retired2026-05-22initial version (backfilled)
v2active2026-05-29v2 — YES + max_concurrent=5 (my counter — same correlated-loss pattern). Replay +$126 vs v1.

Paper trades only — simulated fills at quoted prices, never money. The formula is archived, not deleted. Back to the Graveyard · What each signal means.