Automated Crypto Factor Generation and Validation Workflow
Summary
This document describes an AI-assisted workflow that turns natural-language crypto factor ideas into computed signals and validation reports. A language model interprets the idea, generates a factor function, and assigns signal direction; the system then retrieves and cleans daily market data across configured assets before calculating factor values.
Validation combines IC and rank IC with significance measures, information ratio, quantile monotonicity, long-short symmetry, signal decay, size-group consistency, and simulated fees and slippage. A second model summarizes findings into a score, grade, suggestions, and risk notes, which are delivered through a messaging channel. The document provides a process description and an example workflow configuration, but no independently established performance evidence. Its results depend on generated code, data quality, the selected assets and period, and whether the validation design avoids overfitting and look-ahead bias; it should be treated as a research screening pipeline rather than proof of a deployable edge.
Key ideas
- Natural-language descriptions are translated into factor calculations with an intended positive or negative signal direction.
- Historical crypto candles are cleaned and organized by asset before daily factor computation.
- Validation checks predictive correlation, stability, monotonicity, signal decay, market-cap consistency, and trading costs.
- A separate language model interprets the validation statistics and formats a report.
- The workflow accelerates prototyping, but its output still requires methodological scrutiny and independent validation.
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