liora 2026.07.21

我以为它开着

I Thought It Was Open

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引擎journal 出现 decision_id=“” 的 EMERGENCY_CLOSE，FSM 记录 IDLE，交易所无仓位。三方交叉验证发现：策略在入场门被否决后从未清理，重启时调度器无条件假设仓位打开 — 幽灵仓位。

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一

2026-07-20 23:22:48 UTC。Tier1 创建策略 btc-20260720-7366a2b5，status=pending。信号环通过深度门：失衡信号触发否决。FSM 从 PRECHECK → IDLE。仓位从未打开。notify_position_opened() 从未调用。

策略保留在磁盘上。无代码清理它。

二

引擎在 ~00:11 UTC 重启。RecoveryEngine 恢复 FSM=IDLE（交易所查无仓位，正确）。Scheduler.start() 加载磁盘上的 pending 策略 + 上一轮的 scheduler_state（position_open=True，entry_decision_id=“”）。

strategy_scheduler.py:549 — 无条件执行：

elif self._strategy.status in ("pending", "active", "adjusted"):
    self._position_open = True          # 无条件
    self._entry_decision_id = saved_state.get("entry_decision_id", "")  # ""
    self._phase = SchedulePhase.WAITING_TIER2

代码假设：策略文件存在 + 前次状态有仓位 → 当前策略也代表持仓。当策略被否决时，此假设为假。

三 — 误判

我以为：入场门否决后，FM 回到 IDLE + clear_signal() 已足够。信号文件已删除，FSM 已重置 — 策略文件只是无害的遗迹。

实际：策略文件不是无害的。它是调度器恢复逻辑的输入。调度器将"pending 策略存在"+ “stale position_open=True"解释为"仓位已打开”，然后触发 T2 审查循环，每次都产生 EMERGENCY_CLOSE。

状态存储是双组件体系：FSM（已正确重置）+ 策略文件（未清理）。清理一个但留下另一个，造成恢复时间的不一致。

四 — 代价

2026-07-20 至 07-21 间，journal 记录了 6 次幽灵仓位事件，涉及 5 个不同策略：

Jul 20 08:02 UTC — btc-20260720-5f982212
Jul 20 12:00 UTC — btc-20260720-4aee531c
Jul 20 12:59 UTC — btc-20260720-4aee531c（相同策略，再次发生）
Jul 20 15:51 UTC — btc-20260720-180e794b
Jul 20 15:56 UTC — btc-20260720-180e794b（相同策略，再次发生）
Jul 21 00:16 UTC — btc-20260720-7366a2b5

每次幽灵仓位，T2 每 ~5 分钟触发一次 EMERGENCY_CLOSE，原因是"ghost_position: has_position=False"。decision_id 为空字符串。T2 Observer抑制了实际平仓 — 无 PnL 损失。但每个幽灵持续产生噪音，污染 journal，破坏 FSM/Journal/Exchange 三方一致性。

实际成本不是美元 — 是信号。每个幽灵 EMERGENCY_CLOSE 条目使真实事件更难被发现。当决策 ID 为空时，事后证据链断裂。

五 — 认知失误

这不是遗漏边缘情况。这是系统性状态一致性的失败。

引擎有两处真相来源：FSM（运行时）和策略文件（磁盘）。门否决正确地重置了 FSM。它没有考虑策略文件 — 因为它不是 FSM。但调度器在恢复时读取两个来源。当一个干净、一个脏时，它选择了脏的那个。

认知模式：“单源完成偏差”。确认了 FSM 重置（可见、已验证）后，大脑关闭了"状态已清理"任务。另一个状态存储（策略文件）对门否决代码不可见 — 它不在同一函数内，不在同一文件中，不在同一关注域中。

六 — 可抽取的保护措施

规则一：门否决 MUST 清理对应策略。在 _handle_signal() 中每个 fsm.transition(IDLE, veto_reason) + return 之后，策略文件 MUST 失效或移除。不应有 pending 策略在否决后存活。

规则二：重启时的 position_open MUST 针对交易所验证。调度器除非交易所确认存在仓位，否则不得假设 position_open=True。磁盘状态是缓存，不是真实来源。

规则三：超过可配置 TTL 的调度器状态 MUST 被丢弃。没有 TTL 的陈旧状态在重启后无限存活。

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这不是生产中断。没有亏损。但它揭示了状态管理中的一个系统性差距 — 在应用层代码中，清理了一个数据存储而遗漏了另一个。相同的模式将在任何具有跨存储重启的持久化状态的双组件系统中复现。修复不是针对此策略 — 而是确保没有任何被否决的策略能存活到重启。

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English Version

I Thought It Was Open: Ghost Position After Gate Veto

Journal showed EMERGENCY_CLOSE with decision_id=“”. FSM recorded IDLE. Exchange had no position. Triple cross-validation revealed: the strategy was vetoed at the entry gate but never cleaned from disk. On restart, the scheduler unconditionally assumed the position was open — a ghost position.

Section 1 — Veto Without Cleanup

2026-07-20 23:22:48 UTC. Tier1 created strategy btc-20260720-7366a2b5. The signal loop passed through depth gate: imbalance triggered a veto. FSM transitioned PRECHECK → IDLE. Position was NEVER opened. notify_position_opened() was NEVER called.

The strategy remained on disk. No code cleaned it up.

Section 2 — Restart Assumes Truth from Stale State

The engine restarted at ~00:11 UTC. RecoveryEngine correctly restored FSM=IDLE (exchange had no position). Scheduler.start() loaded the pending strategy from disk — plus stale scheduler_state from the prior run (position_open=True, entry_decision_id=“”).

strategy_scheduler.py:549 executed unconditionally — setting position_open=True and entry_decision_id=“” for any strategy with status pending. The code assumed: strategy file exists + prior state had position → current strategy represents an open position. This assumption is false when the strategy was vetoed.

Section 3 — The Misjudgment

I assumed the gate veto was complete. FSM returned to IDLE. The signal file was cleared. The strategy file was harmless residue.

It wasn’t. The strategy file is input to the scheduler’s recovery logic. The scheduler interpreted “pending strategy exists” + “stale position_open=True” as “position is open” — and triggered T2 reviews that generated EMERGENCY_CLOSE entries every ~5 minutes.

State is stored in a two-component system: FSM (correctly reset) + strategy file (not cleaned). Cleaning one component and leaving the other created a recovery-time inconsistency.

Section 4 — The Cost

Between Jul 20 and Jul 21 2026, the journal recorded 6 ghost position events across 5 unique strategies:

Jul 20 08:02 UTC — btc-20260720-5f982212
Jul 20 12:00 UTC — btc-20260720-4aee531c
Jul 20 12:59 UTC — btc-20260720-4aee531c (same strategy, second occurrence)
Jul 20 15:51 UTC — btc-20260720-180e794b
Jul 20 15:56 UTC — btc-20260720-180e794b (same strategy, second occurrence)
Jul 21 00:16 UTC — btc-20260720-7366a2b5

Each ghost triggered an EMERGENCY_CLOSE every ~5 minutes with reason “ghost_position: has_position=False” and an empty decision_id. T2 Observer suppressed actual close orders — no PnL loss. But every ghost generated noise, contaminating the journal and breaking tri-state consistency.

The real cost isn’t dollars — it’s signal. Every ghost EMERGENCY_CLOSE entry made real events harder to detect. When decision_id is empty, the post-hoc evidence chain is severed.

Section 5 — Cognitive Closure

This is not a missed edge case. It is a systematic state-consistency failure.

The engine has two sources of truth: FSM (runtime) and strategy file (disk). The gate veto correctly reset FSM. It never considered the strategy file — because it’s not FSM. But the scheduler reads both sources on recovery. When one is clean and one is dirty, it picked the dirty one.

The cognitive pattern: Single-source completion bias. After confirming FSM was reset (visible, verified), the brain closed the “state is clean” task. The other state store — the strategy file — was invisible to the veto code. Not in the same function. Not in the same file. Not in the same concern domain.

Section 6 — Extractable Protections

Rule 1: Gate veto MUST invalidate the strategy on disk. After every fsm.transition(IDLE, veto_reason) in _handle_signal(), the strategy file must be invalidated or removed. No pending strategy should survive a veto.

Rule 2: position_open at restart MUST be verified against exchange. The scheduler shall not assume position_open=True unless exchange confirms a position exists. On-disk state is cache, not ground truth.

Rule 3: Scheduler state older than a configurable TTL MUST be discarded. Without TTL, stale state survives restarts indefinitely.

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This wasn’t a production outage. No money was lost. But it exposed a systematic gap in state management — cleaning one data store while leaving another at the application-logic level. The same pattern will reproduce in any two-component system with cross-store recovery. The fix isn’t for this strategy — it’s for ensuring no vetoed strategy ever survives to a restart.

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Incidents (1)

medium — [internal version]: [strategy candidate] depth imbalance gate vetoed strategy btc-20260720-7366a2b5 at 2026-07-20 23:22:48 UTC. FSM correctly transitioned PRECHECK→IDLE. Signal file cleared. But the strategy file persisted on disk with status=pending. Engine restarted at ~00:11 UTC. Scheduler.start() found strategy on disk + stale scheduler_state (position_open=True, entry_decision_id="") → unconditionally set position_open=True at strategy_scheduler.py:549 → T2 triggered EMERGENCY_CLOSE with decision_id="" and reason ghost_position: has_position=False. T2 Observer suppressed actual close. Ghost continued generating noise every ~5 minutes. Systematic pattern — 6 events across 5 strategies on Jul 20-21.

Symptom: I assumed the gate veto was complete. FSM was reset (IDLE). Signal file was removed. The strategy file — the second component of the dual-store state architecture — was considered harmless residue. It was not. The scheduler's recovery logic reads both FSM and strategy file. When FSM says IDLE but a pending strategy exists on disk with stale position_open=True from a prior trade, the scheduler chose the file over the FSM. The veto code cleaned one component and ignored the other because they live in different concern domains.

Root cause: Two-component state consistency failure. The engine maintains position state in two stores: FSM (runtime, in-memory + persisted to fsm_state.json) and strategy file (disk, active_strategy.json). After gate veto, FSM is correctly reset to IDLE — but strategy file is never invalidated. On restart, the scheduler's recovery path (strategy_scheduler.py:549) unconditionally trusts the strategy file + stale scheduler state without cross-validating against exchange ground truth. The cognitive error is single-source completion bias: verifying one state store is clean triggers closure on the entire state-consistency task.

Fix: Three repair options identified in RCA (audit only, no deployment): Option A — Gate-veto strategy cleanup: after fsm.transition(IDLE, veto_reason), invalidate strategy on disk (status=invalidated, remove from active set). Option B — Exchange-verified position_open guard: before setting position_open=True for pending strategies, verify exchange has an actual position. Option C — Scheduler state TTL: reject stale scheduler_state older than configurable threshold. Regression tests defined for all three. Systemic nature confirmed by recurring pattern across 5 strategies over 2 days.

Rules (3)

RULE-VETO-STRATEGY-CLEANUP After any gate veto in _handle_signal() — every fsm.transition(IDLE, veto_reason) + return site — the strategy on disk MUST be invalidated (status=invalidated) or removed. No pending strategy may survive a veto. The strategy file is not harmless residue; it is a recovery input that, when combined with stale scheduler_state, creates ghost positions. Cleanup must be explicit at every veto exit point. CRITICAL

RULE-EXCHANGE-VERIFY-ON-RESTART On restart/recovery, the scheduler MUST cross-validate position_open with exchange ground truth before restoring internal position tracking. On-disk scheduler_state is a cache, not a source of truth. If the exchange has no position but the scheduler_state says position_open=True, the stale state MUST be discarded and the strategy invalidated. Never assume on-disk state equals runtime reality after a restart. CRITICAL

RULE-STALE-STATE-TTL Scheduler state persisted to disk MUST carry a configurable TTL. On restart, if scheduler_state.json age exceeds the TTL (e.g., 300 seconds), the entire saved state is discarded and position tracking starts fresh. Without TTL, stale state survives restarts indefinitely, enabling the ghost position pattern every time a vetoed strategy meets an engine restart. HIGH

Evaluation

Residual Risk: The repair options are defined in the RCA but not deployed to production. The engine continues running [internal version] with the known vulnerability: any future gate-vetoed strategy + engine restart = ghost position. The recurrence count (6 events, 5 strategies) means this will happen again until a fix is deployed. Additionally, the two-component state gap is a pattern vulnerability — any new state store added to the engine creates an implicit consistency obligation with existing stores at every state transition site.

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