The Swarm operates on a 6-hour intelligence cycle. Four times per day, the full chain executes in sequence. Specialist agents run on their own schedules.
6-Hour Intelligence Cycle
05:50 BST
Shadow Matrix
Missed alpha scanner. Analyses every signal the system rejected in the past 24 hours, calculates how much profit was left on the table, and feeds the forensics directly to the Swarm for filter correction.
Repeats 11:50 . 17:50 . 23:50
06:00 BST
Sentinel Broadcaster
Full 9-point clinical intelligence broadcast via Claude Sonnet. Reads 97 indicators across 88 symbols, dissects every trade from the past 6 hours, analyses crime scenes with full physics snapshots, and produces a comprehensive market observation. 4 broadcasts per day build the intelligence chain the Swarm reads before evolving.
Repeats 12:00 . 18:00 . 00:00
06:05 BST
Watchdog
Account health guardian. Tracks equity drawdown from peak, monitors 20-trade rolling win rate. Push alerts at 10% drawdown. Emergency swarm injection triggered at 15% to force immediate DNA evolution.
Repeats 12:05 . 18:05 . 00:05
06:10 BST
Performance Snapshot
Captures full system state. Win rates, PnL percentages, equity curve data points, open positions with unrealised returns, and engine breakdown across all 4 trading engines.
Repeats 12:10 . 18:10 . 00:10
Strategic Agents
Every 48h, 2h prior
Weekly Digest
Compresses the prior days of sentinel broadcasts, trade data, and swarm evolution into a single strategic summary. Identifies recurring failure patterns, regime cycles, and evolution priorities. Runs 2 hours before each swarm cycle so the full intelligence is fresh and ready.
Every 48h
Organism Swarm
50 generation evolution cycle across 11 structural paradigms rotating A through K. Gemini 3 Flash with Sonnet 4.6 callback ingests sentinel broadcasts, the weekly digest, the shadow matrix of missed trades, and the full indicator physics from losing and winning trades. Each generation is assigned one paradigm sequentially (gen modulo 11): Wyckoff Spring, Harmonic XABCD, Order Block Reclaim, FVG Consequent Encroachment, Renko Streak Reversal, Volume Profile POC/VAH/VAL, PCA Anomaly Break, Fibonacci OTE, Asian Range Sweep, Breaker Block Flip, and Effort-vs-Result Absorption. The LLM may also invent up to five novel composite features per candidate; if the champion crowns, those features are AST-extracted, validated, and added to the permanent knowledge base. Every generation is backtested against 6 days of real data across 88 symbols with realistic fees. Champion Validator gates each candidate on contract correctness, cache idempotency, and the 1.2 ATR stop floor. Scored by V8 Calmar (risk-adjusted return), V7 Sortino audit logged in parallel. Only a config that strictly beats the live system on the same window takes the throne. If nothing beats it, the system holds. The decision not to evolve is itself intelligence.