INGEST 8-K filed on a held position. $340M multi-year contract awarded; margin trajectory firmer than consensus.
06:42:44
CLASSIFY Rules fire on held-position material event. Materiality high; queued to the brain.
06:43:09
READ Portfolio, recent signals, worldview, position health. Live theme industrial reshoring confirmed.
06:43:31
DECIDE Thesis intact; catalyst now realized. Add 1.4% NAV. Bear case noted. Stop set.
06:43:55
VALIDATE Ten pre-trade checks · cash, sizing, concentration, correlation, thesis. All pass.
06:44:18
QUEUE Narrative composed. Awaiting human signoff.
Argus · system rhythm
on schedule
07:00
Morning brief
09:00
Filings ingest
10:00
Political signals
11:30
Macro pulse
14:00
Earnings & sentiment
16:45
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Argus runs continuously. Every source we track is ingested without a human in the loop, scanned against our worldview, and queued only when something material moves.
When something matters, our reasoning core picks it up, reads what it needs, argues both sides of the case, and composes a decision. Every proposed trade then clears ten checks before it reaches the queue.
Nothing reaches the broker without a human signoff. We log every decision with its inputs, its reasoning, and the action taken, sealed in an immutable ledger and recoverable forever by hash.
One reasoning core. Two modes.
Reactive when asked. Active when something material moves.
brain · active mode · event triage
reasoning
EVENT
QUEUE Held-position material event picked up from the event queue. Held ticker · 8-K filing · materiality high.
READ
Portfolio state · current weight, P&L, days held. Cash on hand. Last seven days of signals on the name.
Thesis intact. Catalyst now realized rather than pending. Single-name concentration well within band.
BEAR
Bear case in the same breath as the bull: lead-time advantage shortens fast if a peer commits capex. Sizing pulled one tier from the upper bound.
DECIDE
ADD Add 1.4% NAV. Narrative composed. Hand off to the validator.
Continuous read. No model in the loop.
Filings, earnings, macro, political flow, social, news. Ingested without a human. Filtered without a model.
data pipelines · last 24h
ingesting
FILINGS
SEC primary feed. 17 new filings, 2 material to held positions. One 8-K queued for triage.
EARNINGS
Three transcripts pulled and parsed today. One surprise +9% on a watchlist name.
MACRO
Rates, commodities, FX refresh. Regime tag unchanged. Energy print contradicts a live worldview chain.
POLITICAL
Congressional flow + government contract awards. One large contract to a tracked supplier.
SOCIAL
Curated handles only. Two flagged posts on a held name; one corroborates the live thesis.
NEWS
Breaking news feed. 6 critical, 18 high. One clears the classifier; the rest are logged.
CLASSIFY
Seventeen rules · every two minutes. Today: 2 events queued to the brain. Everything else stays in the log.
Ten checks before broker.
Pure rules. Regime-adjusted. Tighter when volatility rises.
pre-trade validator · live proposal
9 of 10 cleared
01
Cash sufficiency
$48K free · $32K needed
pass
02
Position size
7.0% post-trade vs 25% cap
pass
03
Sector concentration
21% post-trade vs 50% cap
pass
04
Portfolio exposure
92% invested · within band
pass
05
Correlation crowding
0.41 vs 0.70 ceiling
pass
06
Duplicate & conflict
no pending row for ticker
pass
07
Risk / reward
2.4:1 vs 1.5:1 floor
pass
08
Daily proposal limit
2 of 3 today · regime normal
watch
09
Thesis validation
thesis active · invalidation intact
pass
10
Rebalancing awareness
no held name needs trimming first
pass
Theses, not tickers.
Every name carries a plain-English story. Monitored against its catalysts and its invalidation, not the tape.
open positions · thesis health
on track · 1 watch · 1 invalidated
Ticker
Thesis
Entry → Last
Next catalyst
Status
[ABCD]Industrial inputs
Capacity bottleneck
+11.4%
Earnings · 18d
on track
[EFGH]Specialty materials
Sole-source input
+4.2%
Contract · 31d
on track
[IJKL]Industrial automation
Reshoring tailwind
−1.1%
Reg approval · 42d
watch
[MNOP]Software platform
Pricing power
−6.8%
—
invalidated
[QRST]Energy infrastructure
Capacity expansion
+7.0%
Capacity · 9d
on track
Every decision, sealed.
Inputs, reasoning, action taken. Recoverable forever by hash.
decision audit · last 24h · immutable
sealed
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PROPOSE Add on held position. 1.4% NAV. Ten checks cleared. Narrative composed; queued for human signoff.
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SURFACE Breaking news on a watchlist ticker. Posted to Slack with context. No trade proposed.
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CLOSE Thesis invalidation triggered on [MNOP]. Position closed at stop. Lesson logged.
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WATCHLIST Congressional cluster on un-tracked ticker. Added with a watch-for condition.
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LOG Sub-significance signal on a held name. Reasoning recorded; no action.
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APPROVE Human signoff in Mission Control. Order routed to broker. Decision sealed.
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