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Equity market-day gating (src/market-data/market-calendar.ts) landed with the same 2026-07-09 investor regime change." ] } ], "limitations": [ "returnPct includes unrealized P&L; realized and unrealized are reported separately per season (a season winner has previously carried negative realized P&L while leading on unrealized gains).", "Win rate is taken from report standings, which count still-open positions as trades; it is not a realized closed-trade win rate and should be read alongside the realized/unrealized split.", "Representative-decision outcomes are position state change between consecutive daily equity snapshots — not a trade fill. Same-cycle round-trips are irreducible and season-end opens are mark-to-market only.", "Cross-season comparison only: prompts, model versions, cadence, asset universe and market regimes changed between seasons — these are not one controlled experiment.", "Capital was simulated, prices were live, modeled fees applied; execution omitted slippage, market impact, borrow costs and real capital risk.", "Samples are short (2 shared completed seasons); behavior is described with sample size, never as a permanent trait of Mistral or ChatGPT.", "Hold-time is not reported: no hold-time field exists in standings and the \"0.0 hours\" text in report prose is a placeholder, not a measurement. Profit factor is not archived and is omitted.", "One or more seasons were force-liquidated at close (every position sold, fee-bearing); the official standings reflect that post-liquidation snapshot, but cross-season return aggregates use each season's comparabilityReturnPct — the last pre-liquidation daily snapshot for force-liquidated seasons, report standings otherwise — so seasons that retained open exposure stay comparable. 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