What's New
Latest updates and improvements to TargetHit
July 29, 2026
New Alpha Layer: Stops Heatmap — Real Resting Stop-Losses, Mapped Live
The Stops Heatmap is live for VIP: a real-time map of actual resting stop and trigger orders on HyperLiquid, drawn at their price levels with dollar sizes — the second alpha layer of eight. On every other exchange, stop-losses are hidden inside the matching engine. HyperLiquid's open design makes resting trigger orders observable, and we capture and map them. Bars grow with the size sitting at each level, the largest clusters carry dollar labels right on the chart, and hovering any band shows the amount, the buy and sell split, and how fresh the data is. Overlay it on the Liquidations Heatmap or run it alone — switch it on from the chart toolbar.
- What you are looking at, and why you cannot see it anywhere else. These are resting stop and trigger orders — real orders, placed by real traders, waiting at real prices to fire. Every other venue keeps them sealed inside the matching engine, which is why no stop-loss map exists for any other exchange. HyperLiquid's architecture makes resting trigger orders observable, so we record them and draw them. This is not a model of where stops "should" be — it is a snapshot of the orders we observe, right now.
- How to read it. Bars anchor to the right edge of the chart and grow with the observed dollar size resting at each price level, and the three largest clusters carry dollar labels directly on the chart, so the big magnets read at a glance. Color runs from violet at lighter concentration to hot pink at the heaviest. Hover any band for the exact figure, the buy and sell split, the data source, and the age of the snapshot.
- Where it works. Stops are live on all 28 xyz TradFi perpetuals — gold, silver, crude, Brent, the S&P 500, the Nasdaq-100, Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, SpaceX, MicroStrategy and the rest — plus the six majors: BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ZEC and HYPE. Nobody else publishes a resting-stops map for any market on any venue.
- The honest print. This is a snapshot of the present, deliberately: stops appear, move and cancel constantly, so the layer refreshes roughly every minute while you watch, and we never draw an invented history. The six majors are sampled from native orders and the tooltip says so — that coverage is real but incomplete. A market we cannot read honestly shows as unavailable instead of showing a comforting zero.
- Pair it with the Liquidations Heatmap. One layer shows where leveraged positions would be force-closed; the other shows where traders' voluntary exits are resting. Run them combined and that is the market's hidden order flow on a single chart — where the fuel is, and where the exits are. This is the second of the eight HyperLiquid alpha layers; the rest are in build, and each one gets posted here the day it lands.
Every Liquidation Heatmap Now Loads in Under a Second
Every liquidation heatmap now loads in under a second — the multi-venue map and every HyperLiquid market alike, with the HyperLiquid maps typically arriving in about half a second. The map paints immediately from the last good picture while a fresh one loads behind it, the chart shows real progress instead of a silent wait, and panning or zooming no longer refetches anything. Same maps, same levels, same data — the wait is what we removed.
- What you will feel. Switch a heatmap on and it paints — immediately. The chart keeps the last good picture on screen and quietly refreshes it in the background, so you are never staring at an empty panel. When a map genuinely has to be built from scratch, you see live progress — loading, preparing, refreshing, retrying — instead of a frozen chart, and the moment the data is ready it appears without you touching anything.
- The numbers behind the claim, measured on the live site. The multi-venue liquidation map serves its full document in under a second, and the HyperLiquid maps arrive in roughly half a second. The stress case is the one we are proudest of: twenty simultaneous requests for the same map used to pile up into a twenty-second timeout — now the slowest of the twenty is answered in about a tenth of a second, because everyone shares one build instead of triggering twenty.
- Pan and zoom are free now. Moving around the chart used to refetch the entire heatmap file, every time. It no longer fetches anything — the full field is already on your machine, so panning and zooming are instant. And a failed load is no longer sticky: previously an error could be cached as an empty map for five minutes; now a failure retries properly and never masquerades as 'no data'.
- The STALE badge tells the truth now. Some of you saw a STALE label on maps that were in fact fresh — that was our label being wrong, not your data. The badge now follows the actual timestamp of the data on screen, with limits tuned to how often each map's source updates. A fresh map wears no badge, a genuinely out-of-date one still gets flagged, and a map with no valid timestamp is treated as stale rather than trusted.
- Nothing about the maps themselves changed. Same computation, same levels, same windows, same modeled-past and exact-forward seam on the HyperLiquid side. This release is purely about delivery: the picture you were already getting, without the wait.
July 24, 2026
HyperLiquid Liquidation Heatmap — Live Today for VIP
The HyperLiquid liquidation heatmap is live for VIP members, on all 24 HyperLiquid markets we carry — including eighteen nobody else maps at all: gold, silver, crude, Brent, the S&P, the Nasdaq-100, Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, MicroStrategy and SpaceX, alongside BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ZEC and HYPE. We compute the whole thing ourselves — no Coinglass, no HyBlock, no paid middleman between you and the picture — and it runs through the same rendering layer as our multi-venue map, so the two read alike. Switch it on from the chart toolbar. This is the first HyperLiquid alpha layer to land, and several AI engineering agents are building the next ones in parallel as you read this.
- What you are looking at. Bright bands mark price levels where a large amount of leveraged size would be force-closed if price reaches them — the fuel that turns an ordinary move into a fast one. Levels are consumed when price visits them, so the field thins out behind the tape and rebuilds ahead of it, and the window pills (1D, 3D, 1W, 2W, 1M) let you choose how far back the field is drawn from.
- Eighteen of the twenty-four markets are not crypto. The HIP-3 perpetual markets on HyperLiquid put gold, silver, crude, Brent, the S&P, the Nasdaq-100, Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, MicroStrategy and SpaceX on a venue that trades around the clock — and as far as we can tell, nobody publishes a liquidation map for any of them. Now you have one. BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, ZEC and HYPE are covered too.
- It is ours end to end. The engine that has been computing our multi-venue liquidation map for months now ingests HyperLiquid open interest and price directly, and the HyperLiquid map is drawn by that same rendering layer, with one presentation adjustment for the fact that HyperLiquid is a single venue where the other map aggregates five. That means the two can be read the same way and compared honestly, and it means nothing here depends on a data vendor who could reprice or revoke us tomorrow.
- The honest print on the data. No vendor on earth sells historical HyperLiquid position state — we checked, thoroughly, and it cannot be bought, only recorded. So the older part of the field is modeled from open-interest changes, exactly the way our multi-venue map has always worked, and we started banking exact observed levels every hour from the day we switched the recorder on. Those exact levels are drawn over the modeled field, the exact era grows every hour, and the chart footer names the seam — modeled to one date, exact from another — instead of pretending the whole picture is measured.
- Where it sits, and what is next. HyperLiquid markets, charts and paper trading are open to every member; the alpha layers on top of them are the VIP line, and Heat is the first of eight to go live. Already in build: the stop-loss and trigger map, the wall profile, smart-money cohorts, whale and TWAP tracking, trapped-trader entry maps, book pressure, and a much larger HyperLiquid market list — with relaying your paper trades onto a real HyperLiquid account further out. Several AI engineering agents are working that lane in parallel right now. Each piece gets posted here the day it lands.
July 21, 2026
Mobile Trading, Rebuilt — The Full Terminal on Your Phone
The trading terminal now runs properly on phones and tablets — the same chart, the same 45 drawing tools, the same order ticket, positions and account. This is not a cut-down mobile site: it is one engine that adapts to the screen. On a phone the chart gets the room, Trade and Positions slide up as sheets you can peek at, half-open or fill, and the ticket and order book share a tab strip so the confirm button is always in reach. Pinch to zoom, long-press to inspect, draw with a finger — and when you are signed in, drawings you make on one device appear on the other. Desktop is unchanged.
- Chart-first by default. On a phone the chart takes the screen instead of fighting three panels for it. Trade and Positions open as bottom sheets with three heights — a peek, a half and a full — so you can watch price while you size an order. The order ticket and the order book are tabbed rather than stacked, a sticky action bar keeps the confirm button above the on-screen keyboard, and the main navigation opens as a drawer.
- Built for fingers, not a mouse. Native pinch-to-zoom and long-press on the chart, touch-sized hit targets on every drawing handle, a compact price axis whose labels no longer collide, and dialogs that account for the keyboard and for the notch and home bar on your phone. All 45 drawing tools are available on mobile — the same set as desktop — and your drawings sync across devices while you are signed in.
- Landscape and tablets included. Turn the phone sideways and the layout re-flows chart-first, including on short landscape screens where there is almost no vertical room. Markets, search, recents, Favorites and watchlists are all populated on mobile, and a one-time gesture coach explains the touch controls — reopenable any time from the chart.
- You do not need an account to look. Charts, market search across venues and the competition leaderboard are open to guests; account-only surfaces such as Favorites, watchlists and orders show a sign-in prompt instead of failing quietly.
- What we verified before shipping: eight screen profiles from 360×800 upward, three browser engines (Chrome, Firefox and Safari), all 45 drawing tools proved aligned under touch input, and the order, position, account and drawing flows re-run against the live site. Desktop geometry is untouched. Still open, stated plainly: certification runs on physical iPhone and Android hardware are queued but not yet done — if something behaves wrong on your device, tell us in Discord and we will fix it.
July 18, 2026
Liquid Retired — Our Own Audit Caught a Backtest Flaw
We retired Liquid today. An internal audit on July 14 found a look-ahead flaw in its backtest: entries were priced at the open of the same hourly candle whose move produced the signal — a price impossible to obtain in live trading. Rebuilt with only realizable entries, the published edge disappears. Live results said the same thing. We paused Liquid within hours of confirming, and audited every other strategy the same way: Cobra, Viper, Raphael, Chimera and Almanac all decide on completed candles and enter at prices actually available afterward. Liquid was the only one with this flaw.
- The receipts: the published backtest showed 249 trades, 81.5% win rate, about +45 bps per trade. Two independent corrected rebuilds with realizable entries showed 64–66% win rates and roughly −12 to 0 bps per trade — no edge after costs. Live member execution agreed: 128 closed fills averaging −36 bps, about −$1,100 collectively across all member accounts.
- What we did the moment it was confirmed (July 14): stopped Liquid from sending any new trades. No member positions were open. Today it is fully retired — removed from Strategies, Auto-Trade and every live surface. All trade history remains in our database.
- Your seat: all 26 active Liquid seats have been released, so you are free to claim any open strategy immediately. Nothing else changes on your account.
- The process change: every strategy backtest must now pass a realizable-entry audit — the exact test that caught this — before anything is published or routed to members. We would rather retire a strategy with an honest explanation than let a flattering but unachievable number stand.
July 4, 2026
New Strategy: Almanac — Our Sixth Live Strategy
Almanac is live. It trades brief, recurring windows when institutional order flow concentrates across BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP — long or short — and sits fully flat roughly four days out of five. Entries and exits are time-boxed with hard time stops. 25 seats at launch, automated end to end via Auto-Trade.
- The record: $10,000 → $497,000 over a 33-month backtest (Sharpe 2.24, 348 positions, 62.4% win rate), with a worst drawdown of −39.7% at launch sizing. In the market only ~18% of days — the rest of the time it holds nothing and risks nothing.
- What makes it different from our other five: Almanac takes no view between its windows. When a window opens it enters all four majors simultaneously for hours (not weeks), exits on a hard time stop, and goes flat. The mechanism is proprietary and we are deliberately not disclosing it.
- Risk, stated plainly: during a window the basket runs about 3.7× gross exposure (91% of allocated equity per coin, four coins at once), which needs margin/futures headroom on your connected exchange. The four majors are highly correlated — a bad window hits all four together; the worst single backtested window cost about 8% of equity per coin.
- Its live record starts today at zero. As always, every position — win or lose — is tracked publicly on the strategy page, and the full 348-trade backtest history is already there. Claim a seat on the Strategies page.
Chimera Risk Upgrade: Real 10% Stop-Loss + Larger Position Sizing
Every Chimera position now carries a real stop-loss 10% from entry, replacing the old ±25% disaster stop. In 41 months of data (training + unseen) that stop would have fired only 5 times — it is tail protection for crash days, not a routine exit. Because the stop caps exactly the crash-day swings that used to set the risk budget, position sizing rises from 60%/30% (XRP) to 86%/43% of allocated equity at the SAME ~15% worst historical drawdown. The displayed backtest at the new settings: $10k → $3.87M over 41 months, worst 5-minute excursion drawdown −14.9%.
- Why this is a risk REDUCTION per position despite bigger sizing: the worst any single position can now lose is ~8.6% of allocated equity (~4.3% on XRP) versus ~15% under the old wide disaster stop — and the structural worst case across simultaneous positions drops from ~52% to ~30% of equity.
- What changed in the history you see: 5 of 914 backtest trades (incl. the sealed 2026 holdout window) now show as −10% stop-loss exits instead of their old exits; one marginal holdout winner becomes a stop (holdout WR 79.5% → 78.7%). Headline win rate moves 85.3% → 85.2%. Everything else is the same trades at the new sizing.
- Signals, the ML gate (τ=0.80), entries, take-profits and time exits are completely unchanged — this is a risk-layer and sizing change only. Applied automatically to Auto-Trade fills from today; no member action needed.
- Heads-up for connected accounts: peak gross exposure can reach ~3× allocated equity (up to 4 concurrent positions at 86%/43%), which requires margin/futures headroom on your exchange — same mechanism as before, higher ceiling. The strategy page risk note has been rewritten accordingly.
July 3, 2026
OKX Europe Auto-Trade Is Live (X-Perps)
European members can now auto-trade on OKX's regulated EU platform. EU rules changed what European retail accounts can trade — classic perpetuals are off the table, and USDT is not available at all on OKX Europe. We rebuilt our OKX Europe integration around X-Perps, OKX's EU-regulated futures, with margin in USDC. Certified live today with a supervised real-money test on a member account: order in, position verified on the exchange, order out, account flat — total round-trip cost about half a cent.
- What changed under the hood: our engine now resolves OKX Europe orders to X-Perp contracts automatically and reads your margin as total account equity, so USDC (or EUR) collateral just works — no conversion, ever.
- One-time setup on the OKX side: open Trade → X-Perps once and complete the short questionnaire (an EU requirement), set Account mode to Multi-currency margin, and keep your funds as USDC in the Trading account. Full steps are on the FAQ page.
- The honest print from certification: open 61,950.5 → close 61,950.9, fees 0.0056 USDC round-trip on a ~$6 test position, account flat, every fill and fee captured by our reconciler.
- Also fixed along the way: a position-parsing edge case our test surfaced (the exchange briefly reports a zero row right after a close, which our adapter could misread as an open position). Found in a $6 supervised test instead of a member trade — exactly why we certify on real money before turning anything on.
July 1, 2026
MEXC Removed from Supported Exchanges
We've removed MEXC from Auto-Trade. MEXC's futures API stopped accepting orders for the pairs our strategies trade, and despite repeated attempts over several months we could never make execution work there — not a single order ever filled. Rather than advertise a venue that can't execute, we're removing it. Seven exchanges remain fully supported.
- The honest version: MEXC disabled futures API order placement for the major pairs (BTC, ETH, SOL and others). Every order we routed there was rejected on their side. We tried to work around it many times; it is not fixable from our end.
- By the numbers: across the entire life of the platform, 96 orders were routed to MEXC and 0 filled. Nobody was earning on MEXC — which is exactly why it has to go. We would rather support seven venues that execute than advertise eight where one can't.
- If you had MEXC connected: your connection has been deactivated on our side. Nothing else is affected — TargetHit never holds funds and access was trade-only, so there is nothing to withdraw or move. Your MEXC account itself is untouched.
- Where to trade instead: every strategy runs identically on Binance, Bybit, Bitget, OKX, HyperLiquid, BYDFI, and Blofin. Connect any of them under Auto-Trade → Manage Exchanges and your seats execute there automatically.
- Supported exchanges are now: Binance, Bybit, Bitget, OKX, HyperLiquid, BYDFI, and Blofin.
June 28, 2026
Refocusing on Our Core Product: Traditional Trading
We're ending our Polymarket prediction-market experiment to put all of our energy into what we do best — building and running trading strategies for the major exchanges. The Polymarket bots and tools have been retired across the site.
- What's changing: the Polymarket page, the prediction-market bots, and the wallet-intelligence explorer have all been removed from TargetHit. Our focus is now entirely on our core product — the live strategy fleet you Auto-Trade on the major exchanges.
- Why we made this call: the Polymarket bots were taking a large share of our time and engineering effort for a product that sat outside our core. Stepping away frees that energy to do what actually moves the needle for members — researching and shipping more trading strategies for the main platform.
- What it means for you: nothing changes for your exchange Auto-Trading. Every strategy, exchange connection and setting is exactly as it was. If anything, you'll see the benefit of our full attention going into new strategies from here on.
- If you used the Polymarket wallets: any prediction-market positions you opened live on Polymarket and remain entirely yours. You can access them any time by signing in directly at polymarket.com with the same login you used here. Your funds were never held by TargetHit.
June 22, 2026
New Exchange: Blofin — Auto-Trade on Our 8th Venue
Blofin is now our eighth supported exchange for Auto-Trade — connect your account and run the full strategy fleet there, the same as on every other venue. New Blofin sign-ups also get a launch deal: lower trading fees, VIP status for a month, a free-trade credit, and deposit bonuses.
- What it means: Blofin joins Binance, Bybit, Bitget, OKX, HyperLiquid, MEXC and BYDFI as a supported Auto-Trade exchange — eight venues in total. Connect your Blofin API key under Auto-Trade then Manage Exchanges, and every strategy you subscribe to will execute on Blofin automatically.
- How it trades: exactly like our other venues — cross margin. Positions are sized by quantity and we never change your exchange's leverage setting. Your take-profit and stop-loss are attached the moment your entry fills — the same bracketed execution you already get on Bybit, Bitget and Binance.
- Setting it up: create your Blofin API key with read and trade permission only — never enable withdrawals — and add the server IP shown on the connect card to your key's allow-list. One Blofin-specific note: Blofin keeps your Funding wallet and Futures wallet separate, and trades draw from the Futures wallet, so move your USDT there before you start.
- Launch deal for new Blofin users: we partnered with Blofin on a sign-up offer — a trading-fee discount, VIP status for your first 30 days, a free-trade credit, and deposit bonuses that grow with the size of your deposit. The current terms and the sign-up link are on the Blofin connect card. (The bonuses are Blofin's, for brand-new accounts, and their terms apply.)
- Nothing else changed: your existing exchange connections, API keys and Auto-Trade settings are all untouched. Blofin is simply one more choice when you connect an exchange.
June 20, 2026
Faster Execution Across Every Strategy
We have sped up how quickly signals fire and reach your exchange across all our strategies, so when you Auto-Trade, your order goes out closer to the strategy's modeled entry.
- What changed: we reworked the path that turns a freshly-closed candle into a live signal. Across the fleet, signals are now produced and published faster — in some cases dramatically so — rather than waiting on slower background steps.
- Why it matters: the entry price shown on each strategy page is the close of the signal's candle. The sooner a signal fires after that close, the more closely your real fill tracks it, especially on fast-moving bars.
- Fleet-wide: this is an across-the-board speed improvement, not a change to any single strategy.
- Nothing else changed: what each strategy trades, how it is scored, and its risk profile are all exactly the same — only the speed improved. Your API keys and Auto-Trade settings are untouched.
June 10, 2026
New Strategy: Chimera — Five Signal Families, One ML Gate
Our fifth live strategy. Chimera fuses order-flow, liquidation maps, derivatives positioning, spot-perp basis and session patterns across BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP — and a machine-learned take/skip gate only fires it on high-probability setups. 86.3% backtest win rate; +45% on fully unseen 2026 data while BTC fell 15.8%.
- What it does: five independent signal families each propose trades; a calibrated model scores every candidate and only the strongest ~10% get taken. Positions hold 2–6 hours, long and short, with fully systematic exits (target, stop or time). Expect a measured pace — roughly 5–6 trades a week, not a firehose.
- The test that matters: before launch we froze the strategy completely, then ran it once over five months of 2026 data it had never seen — sealed away since training, opened a single time, never to be reused. It passed all five pre-registered launch bars: 79.5% win rate, +60 bps per trade, profit factor 3.8, and +45% at our stated sizing over a stretch where Bitcoin lost 15.8%.
- Honest framing: the displayed drawdown of 15.3% is measured at the worst 5-minute intra-candle excursion — the strictest standard we publish — versus 50% for simply holding BTC. The return came with a fraction of the pain, and the strategy kept making money when the market turned in 2026.
- Know the risk profile: most Chimera entries (21 of 26 signal streams) exit on a TIME stop, not a price stop-loss — an adverse move is not cut early, and each position is only protected by a wide ±25% disaster stop (roughly 15% of equity per position at the displayed sizing). That is a different intra-trade risk profile than our stop-loss-based strategies, and the strategy page carries a permanent warning saying exactly that.
- Sizing, stated plainly: the displayed curve uses 60% of equity per trade (30% on XRP, whose order books are thinner — we cap it deliberately so fills stay clean for everyone). Peak observed exposure is about 2.1x equity when positions overlap. How much you allocate is your call.
- Capacity-capped at 20 seats: this strategy trades within minutes of its signal bars, so we are keeping the fleet small to protect execution quality. Full trade history is on the strategy page, updating live like our other strategies. Subscribe via Auto-Trade as usual.
June 6, 2026
Faster, More Reliable Auto-Trade Execution
We are cutting the delay between a signal firing and your order filling — so the price you actually get tracks the strategy's entry more closely, especially on fast-moving bars.
- The background: on the strategy pages, the entry price shown is the strategy's modeled entry — the close of the signal's candle. Your exchange fills a few moments later at the live market price, so on a fast bar the two can differ. Both numbers are correct, but we found slow order placement was widening that gap more than it should.
- Root cause: a single market order was sometimes taking 40+ seconds to place and confirm when it should take only a few. We traced it to repeated per-order setup work and to slow exchange responses being allowed to hang.
- Shipped for everyone: orders on direct exchanges (such as Binance) now fail fast — about 12 seconds — instead of potentially hanging for up to a minute, so a sluggish exchange response no longer leaves your order stuck waiting.
- Now rolling out: a rebuilt execution path that keeps a warm, ready connection to the exchange instead of rebuilding it on every order, cutting the order step from tens of seconds toward a few. We have started it on a single Binance account, validated it against a test environment first, and can roll it back instantly — and we will widen it as it proves out.
- No action needed: your API keys and Auto-Trade settings are unchanged. This is purely about execution speed and reliability, not a change to any strategy.
June 4, 2026
New Strategy: Liquid — Liquidation-Flush Absorption
Our fourth live strategy. Liquid fades liquidation cascades across BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP — long and short — and notably held up through the recent bear, returning +46.1% out-of-sample while BTC fell 21.4%.
- What it does: when a wave of forced liquidations over-extends price away from its recent average, Liquid takes the other side and rides the snap-back. It is fast, high-hit-rate mean-reversion with a roughly 15-minute typical hold, trading both long and short across four coins.
- The number that matters: 82.6% win rate across a 41-month backtest — but the real test was out-of-sample. Through the November 2025 to May 2026 bear market, Liquid returned +46.1% while Bitcoin fell 21.4%. That out-of-sample window is a thin 28-trade sample, and we want to be upfront about that.
- Two sides: Liquid runs a long absorption book and a short absorption book; the short side is what carried it through the downturn.
- Risk, stated plainly: the backtest shows a roughly 40% maximum drawdown, and the headline equity curve is leverage-scaled — the same disclosure we apply to our other strategy cards. How much leverage and size you use is your call.
- Live and transparent: Liquid's full trade history is on its strategy page and refreshes every 15 minutes, exactly like Cobra, Viper and Raphael. Claim one of 50 seats and route its signals to your connected exchange through Auto-Trade.
Your New Dashboard
Logging in now takes you straight to a single home base that pulls together everything that matters — your strategy results, your auto-trade activity, the top Polymarket bots, Rick's live challenge, and the latest updates — all on one page.
- Now your landing page: signing in (or opening TargetHit while already logged in) drops you right onto your Dashboard instead of a generic page.
- Strategy results at a glance — the live 7-day performance of Cobra, Viper, and Raphael, each with a quick link to dig deeper.
- Your Auto-Trade status — how your own trades executed over the last 7 days across Strategies, Copy Rick, and Polymarket.
- Top Polymarket bots ranked by expected value per $100, plus Rick's live $100 → $10,000 Bitget challenge and a running feed of recent changes.
- Reach it anytime from "Dashboard" in the menu — top of the sidebar on desktop, top of the menu on mobile.
Raphael Stats Corrected & Signal Filter Fixed
A stale market-volatility feed caused Raphael to send some long signals it should have held back. We have fixed the feed, corrected the live stats, and want to be upfront about what happened.
- What happened: Raphael only takes its long trades when market volatility is calm. In the days after it launched on May 26, a background volatility feed went stale, so its safety filter stopped holding those long signals back during a sharp BTC downturn — exactly the kind of move Raphael is built to sit out.
- Impact: if you had Auto-Trade on for Raphael, these went out as small positions, and because BTC was falling they closed as small losses rather than gains. If you follow the signals manually, you may have seen the alerts too. We are sorry for the noise and the rough trades.
- The fix: the volatility feed now refreshes every hour, and if Raphael cannot confirm current market conditions it now stays out of the market instead of guessing.
- Stats corrected: the live win rate and P&L for Raphael now reflect the trades it should have taken with the filter working — so what you see on the Home and Strategies pages is accurate again, and the temporary under-review flag is cleared.
- Unchanged: this was a data-feed bug, not a change to the strategy. Raphael’s development backtest (+567%, 56.5% win rate) and its ~40% historical maximum drawdown are the same as before.
June 3, 2026
Stricter Bot Testing Before Listing
We raised the bar a Polymarket bot must clear before it ever reaches members.
- Every candidate is now checked for per-coin calibration, not just a single pooled backtest
- A realized fire-rate sanity check rejects any bot whose live behavior doesn't match the selectivity its backtest claimed
- The goal is simple: keep over-fit backtests from ever being listed, so the bots you see are the ones that hold up live
Faster Polymarket Trade History & Live Feed
Restored trade history on the Polymarket page and made the live activity feed dramatically faster.
- Fixed an issue where recent bot trades had stopped showing in the history view
- Live feed response time cut from roughly 6 seconds to under 0.2 seconds
- Added self-recovery to the bot data pipeline so it heals automatically instead of stalling
June 2, 2026
Strategy Charts Now Refresh Reliably
Equity curves and the strategy-vs-BTC comparison charts now stay current.
- Fixed a data-pipeline issue that was leaving some strategy curves stale
- Resolved a memory issue that caused the strategy scanner to restart repeatedly
- All strategy charts now update on a steady 15-minute cadence
May 31, 2026
Copy Rick Is Back
The Copy Rick page is live again and back in the menu, rebuilt around a cleaner flow.
- New flow: risk warning, then Rick's bio, then the $100 Challenge, then live positions and activity
- Removed a redundant stats strip so your balance and progress live in one place
- Follow Rick's live trades on autopilot through your connected exchange
Auto-Trade Execution Hardened (HyperLiquid)
Fixed an exchange-adapter bug that could interrupt order handling on HyperLiquid.
- Patched a library issue affecting some HyperLiquid order and pricing paths
- Every execution worker was updated to the fix
- No open positions were affected
May 30, 2026
New Polymarket Bots: Nocturne Kraken & Dusk Talon
Two new bots joined the Polymarket lineup, both built on our Order-Block discovery framework.
- Nocturne Kraken — BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP, on 5m and 15m crypto up/down markets
- Dusk Talon — BTC, on 15m crypto up/down markets
- Both are member-claimable, with limited seats per bot
May 29, 2026
Two More Strategies Live: Cobra & Viper
Two additional Strategies met the historical-test criteria and are now available for Auto-Trade.
- Cobra and Viper join Raphael on the Strategies page
- Each can be added to Auto-Trade by claiming a seat
- Same risk-first historical-test bar as every Strategy we ship
May 26, 2026
Introducing Strategies
A new way to trade with TargetHit: pick a strategy, compare it head-to-head against simply holding BTC, and run it on autopilot. Strategies replaces the old Live Signals page.
- Browse strategies and compare any of them against BTC HODL before you commit
- Claim a seat to run a strategy through Auto-Trade — no manual entries or exits
- Risk-first by design: every strategy is built to a hard ceiling of roughly 40% maximum drawdown
- Drawdown is measured honestly — every open position is marked every 5 minutes, not with a flattering once-a-day snapshot
- Seats are limited per strategy, because piling too much capital onto the same signals erodes the edge for everyone
- First strategy — Raphael — is live now, with more rolling out as each one clears the same bar
May 25, 2026
Bot Seat Claiming Reliability Fix
Fixed an issue where some members could not claim a bot seat.
- A brief wallet-connection flicker could disable the "Claim seat" button mid-flow
- The button now stays available through reconnects, so the claim goes through
- No change for members whose wallet connection was already stable
May 24, 2026
Five New Order-Block Bots: The Round Table
Five new Polymarket bots from our Order-Block discovery family went live.
- Merlin, Lancelot, Gawain and Percival — BTC, on 5m crypto up/down markets
- Galahad — ETH, on 5m crypto up/down markets
- They join King Arthur in the Order-Block lineup, all member-claimable with limited seats
April 10, 2026
P1 & P4 Portfolio Replacement — V5.3 Discovery
Complete replacement of Portfolio 1 (16 edges) and Portfolio 4 (12 edges) with V5.3 wide-net discovery results.
- 260 indicators scanned across the full V4 optimal dataset (up from 53)
- Every edge now exceeds +2% expectancy on both training AND 6-month out-of-sample
- P1: 8 LONG / 8 SHORT balanced, avg +4.78% train EV, +6.50% OOS EV
- P4: 6 LONG / 6 SHORT balanced, avg +4.53% train EV, +5.31% OOS EV
- 73 unique indicator pairs discovered vs 4 previously
- P4 scanner rewritten for dynamic DB loading with mixed-condition support
Homemade Bot: "My Two Cents"
New $0.02 entry sniper bot for BTC/ETH/SOL/XRP 5m and 15m crypto up/down markets on Polymarket.
- Targets profitable entries at $0.02 on crypto prediction markets
- Holds to resolution or sells higher
- Built on Brain v5.5 data with a full backtest run
Homemade Bot: "Lazarus"
Sub-penny sniper bot buying at $0.01-$0.03 across all crypto up/down markets.
- 644 cycles backtested, 4.35% win rate, +$2,530 projected profit
- Estimated ~230 trades per day across 4 coins x 2 timeframes
- Hold-to-resolution strategy with no take-profit exits
April 8, 2026
Homemade Bot: "Doubled or Nothing"
New bot deployed to the homemade bots page following the Homemade Bot Protocol.
- Full backtest, INSTRUCTIONS.md, and MANIFEST.json created
- Integrated with copytrade engine for subscriber execution
March 29, 2026
Copy Rick Page Complete Rebuild
Full redesign of the Copy Rick trading page with inline setup wizard and daily/weekly digests.
- 3-step inline wizard: VIP subscription, exchange connection, risk configuration
- Daily (08:00 UTC) and weekly (Sunday 10:00 UTC) notification digests
- Per-connection circuit breakers and dynamic signalId uniqueness
- Multi-exchange support with preferred_exchange_ids per subscriber
March 27, 2026
Copytrade Withdrawal Fix
Fixed Polymarket copytrade withdrawals using Safe-based RelayClient.
- Users can now withdraw USDC from their copytrade wallets
- Safe-based withdrawal via RelayClient operational
March 25, 2026
PnL Inflation Bug Fix
Discovered and fixed 299 trades with exitPrice=0 generating $379,334 in fake PnL.
- Nulled out all invalid exit prices, leaving $2,313 in verified real PnL
- Engine patched to compute PnL inline on close and guard against exitPrice=0
- Multi-exchange duplication bug fixed with preferred_exchange_ids filtering
March 24, 2026
Binance Hedge Mode Direction Fix
Fixed Binance adapter silently falling back from hedge mode to one-way mode.
- Root cause: Binance error -4061 triggered silent fallback causing wrong-direction trades
- Fix: removed silent fallback entirely — if hedge mode fails, trade fails with clear error
- Users instructed to enable Hedge Mode in Binance Futures settings
March 22, 2026
Copytrade Percentage-Based Balance Fix
Fixed copy trade sizing to properly mirror earner allocation proportionally.
- Before: flat amount regardless of earner trade size
- After: mirrors earner portfolio allocation proportionally with user slider as multiplier
- Patched across Python (earner_watcher) and Rust (fanout.rs) components
March 18, 2026
Polymarket Copy Trading Page Rebuild
Complete rebuild of the Polymarket page with unified strategy table for seed wallets and AI bots.
- Single table with 33+ strategies — earners and AI bots together
- Category filter, sort by PnL/ROI/EV/Portfolio/Activity
- Inline detail panel with stats grid and subscribe controls
- ConnectPolymarket widget with Privy wallet and USDC balance
March 17, 2026
Copytrade Rust Engine Deployed
Production Rust copytrade engine deployed on Ireland server.
- PM2 #25 on port 8790 handling signal fanout to subscribers
- Next.js frontend on JUMP PM2 #24
- 9-step gated Seed Wallet Execution Protocol established
March 14, 2026
Optimal V4 Dataset & P5 Discovery
Built Optimal V4 dataset with Tier1 HyBlock indicators and ran P5 pairwise discovery.
- 2,456 columns including 9 Tier1 HyBlock endpoint families
- Pairwise scan without forced DPO gatekeeper — 150 candidates found
- P5 deployed with 10 edges across BTC, ETH, SOL
March 13, 2026
Brain v5.5 / clob-capture Decomposition
Retired Brain v5.4 monolith and decomposed into modular clob-capture stack.
- 10 writers + clob-relay on ws://localhost:9998
- New DB: clob_capture.db with 14 tables
- brain_v5.db frozen as archive
March 7, 2026
Divergence Oracle Overlay
Built H1 Divergence Oracle overlay for the TargetHit.ai tools page.
- Real-time Polymarket price feed with BTC/ETH/SOL
- DST-aware ET timezone conversion for market slugs
- Live divergence calculation between market price and model predictions
February 20, 2026
Velocity Engine V4 Deployed
Upgraded prediction engine with LightGBM ensembles and Platt calibration.
- Live inference every 10 seconds across all supported coins
- Hourly UP/DOWN predictions with probability scores
- Integrated with Polymarket up-or-down markets
February 18, 2026
Maker Engine & Bilateral Arb Research
Built bilateral market maker modeled on Sentimental Finance strategy ($249K PnL reference).
- Core insight: UP+DOWN pair sums to ~$1.00, buy pair at $0.94, sell at $1.00 for $0.06/pair
- MAX_BID=$0.48 safety cap
- Playbook documented at maker-engine directory
February 15, 2026
TargetHit.com Prediction Marketplace Rebuilt
Full React frontend rebuilt with modern stack for the prediction marketplace.
- Vite + React 19 + Zustand + Tailwind
- Multi-asset support: BTC, ETH, SOL, GOLD, SILVER, NASDAQ, EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY
- Ranking system rewritten to pure 30-day rolling cumulative PnL%
February 10, 2026
Telescope Wallet Intelligence System
Built wallet intelligence database tracking 16K+ Polymarket wallets.
- telescope.db with alpha_wallets + alpha_wallet_stats tables
- Key finding: speed not required — retail-pace wallets 10x more capital-efficient than HFT
- 12-step clone methodology documented
February 8, 2026
Optimal V3 Data Pipeline
Extended ML-ready dataset to 2,205 columns with 3 years of data.
- 318K rows per coin covering Jan 2023 to present
- 530 raw indicators + 525 z-scores + multi-timeframe HyBlock data
- Automated hourly refresh via cron
February 1, 2026
Portfolio Replacement Protocol V5
Standardized protocol for all portfolio edge replacements with critical bug fixes.
- Fixed SL/TP edges incorrectly using horizon=24H instead of sltp
- Unified deploy_portfolio.py script with --exit-type parameter
- Checklist covers backup, retire, insert, forward test, scanner restart, website verification
January 28, 2026
P5 Portfolio Launch
New expectancy-optimized portfolio using DPO-gated pairwise indicator combinations.
- 10 edges across BTC, ETH, SOL — 5 LONG / 5 SHORT
- SL/TP exits only (no timeout/horizon)
- Train-first methodology with 80% OOS reproduction requirement
P2 ETH V3 Deployment
Deployed 12 new P2 edges with diversified SOL + BTC coverage.
- Edges selected for strong training AND OOS performance
- New hourly forward test pipeline integration
- Database-driven edge loading replacing hardcoded definitions
January 24, 2026
P3 Portfolio Selection
Selected P3 edges with 84% average OOS win rate.
- 12 edges: 3 ETH edges with 100% OOS WR (8/8 wins each)
- 10 unique indicator groups for signal diversity
- Higher training expectancy threshold (2.5%+)
January 21, 2026
Portfolio 4 Launched: Multi-Coin SL/TP System
New P4 portfolio with 12 edges across BTC and SOL (6 LONG, 6 SHORT)
- BTC edges: 3 LONG, 3 SHORT from gentle discovery
- SOL edges: 3 LONG, 3 SHORT with 75%+ OOS win rates
- SL/TP based exits for precise risk management
- Avg backtest PF: 4.33
Portfolio 2 Upgraded: ETH V3 Edges
P2 now runs 14 ETH edges with SL/TP exits (8 LONG, 6 SHORT)
- All edges use DPO_20_z as primary indicator
- SL/TP based exits - no time horizon
- Diverse secondary indicators for signal variety
- Expected ~4-5 signals per day
January 20, 2026
Live Signals Portfolio Tabs Redesign
Portfolio tabs now show active signal count and exit method
- Badge shows Active (x) count instead of static labels
- Description line shows exit method (2h Horizon or SL/TP Exits) and coins
- Green highlight when portfolio has active signals
- Cleaner visual hierarchy
P4 Portfolio Deployment
Deployed P4 Portfolio with 12 BTC/SOL edges using SL/TP exits
- 6 SOL edges (3 LONG, 3 SHORT)
- 6 BTC edges (3 LONG, 3 SHORT)
- All edges use DPO_20 + secondary indicator
- SL/TP exit only (no horizon timeout)
- Edges: globalAccounts_longPct, PSARr_0.02_0.2, limitOrderCount_delta, anchoredTopTraderPositions, SQUEEZE_SQZ_ON
- Expected ~4-5 signals per day
Live Signals Dashboard Stats Fix
Fixed incorrect expectancy and signals per day calculations on live signals page
- Expectancy now calculated from actual signal performance data
- Fixed percentage display formatting
- Added accurate signals per day calculation
- P3 stats now display correctly
P3 Discovery Improvements
Enhanced edge discovery process for P3 with SL/TP only exits
- Trades now exit only on Stop Loss or Take Profit - no timeouts
- Improved data validation methodology
- Over 3,500 potential edges discovered across SOL and BTC
- Balanced LONG/SHORT distribution
January 19, 2026
P3 Exit Logic Fixed
P3 signals now exit only on Stop Loss or Take Profit - no more horizon timeouts
- P3 scanner no longer sets expiration time
- P3 evaluator only checks SL/TP levels
- P1 and P2 horizon logic unchanged
P3 Portfolio V2 - Complete Edge Replacement
Replaced all 8 P3 edges with new discovery results
- 4 SHORT (UI_14, SQUEEZE_SQZ_ON, topTraderAccounts_lsRatio, PSARr) + 4 LONG (CANDLE_BODY_RATIO, SQUEEZE_SQZ_OFF, BOP, anchoredGlobalAccounts_cumulativeLongPct)
- Avg Training WR: 54.8%, Avg Training ER: 1.70%
- SL/TP only exits (no timeout)
January 18, 2026
Footer + Dashboard Legal Links
Added Footer component to dashboard and fixed social links
- Footer with legal links now appears on logged-in dashboard pages
- Fixed YouTube link to @TargetHit
- Fixed Telegram link to t.me/targethitfree
Legal Pages for Ads Compliance
Created comprehensive legal pages required for Google/Meta ads and organic SEO
- Terms of Service - covers VIP membership, auto-trading, liability
- Privacy Policy - GDPR/CCPA compliant with data collection disclosure
- Cookie Policy - details all tracking cookies and consent options
- Risk Disclaimer - critical for trading/financial services compliance
- Refund Policy - 7-day refund window, Stripe compliance
- New Footer component with legal links across all pages
- Updated sitemap to include all legal pages
File Upload API for Claude
Added /upload endpoint to Claude Runner v3 for reliable file transfers
- Supports text mode for code files
- Supports base64 mode for binary files
- Eliminates JSON escaping issues
- 50MB max upload size
Course Graduate Discord Role
Users who complete all 43 lessons now automatically receive a special Discord role
- Discord role ID: 1462739423035658261
- Role assigned when user marks final lesson complete
- Requires Discord account to be linked
- Added courseGraduateRoleAssigned tracking field
Fixed Course Page 404 Errors
Added missing level index pages to fix 404 errors on /learn/foundation, /learn/data, etc.
- Created /learn/[level]/page.tsx to display lessons for each course level
- URLs like targethit.ai/learn/foundation now work correctly
MEXC AutoTrade: Web Token Required
Discovered MEXC futures API limitation - now requires browser session token instead of API keys
- CCXT library does not support MEXC futures orders via API keys
- MEXC futures API has been in maintenance since 2022
- Workaround: Use web token from browser cookies (u_id)
- Affected users notified via email with setup instructions
- Updated CCXT to version 4.5.33
January 17, 2026
School of Quant Trading - 100% COMPLETE
All 43 lessons are now live at targethit.ai/learn
- FOUNDATION: 6 lessons on mindset and system overview
- DATA: 8 lessons on alternative data sources
- TESTING: 7 lessons on backtesting done right
- DISCOVERY: 6 lessons on finding real edges
- RISK: 5 lessons on position sizing and survival
- AUTOMATION: 6 lessons on building trading bots
- PRODUCTION: 5 lessons on going live and staying alive
- Total reading time: ~17 hours of comprehensive education
RISK Level Complete - 5 New Lessons
Deployed all 5 RISK level lessons to School of Quant Trading
- Position Sizing: The Most Important Decision
- Drawdown Management: Staying in the Game
- Correlation and Portfolio Risk
- Stop Losses: Science vs Art
- Risk Budgeting Across Strategies
- Course now at 32/43 lessons (74% complete)
Bitget AutoTrade Fix
Fixed 100% Bitget trade failure rate
- ccxt Bitget returns balance info as list not dict
- Updated equity extraction to handle list response
- Workers restarted successfully
January 16, 2026
Discord VIP Role Sync
Deployed bidirectional Discord VIP role sync cron job.
- Runs every 15 minutes — grants VIP role on purchase, revokes on expiry
- Bidirectional: syncs both Discord → website and website → Discord
School of Quant Trading - DISCOVERY Level Complete
Added all 6 DISCOVERY level lessons to the free education course
- Lesson 4.1: The Edge Discovery Framework - systematic edge finding
- Lesson 4.2: Z-Score Normalization - making indicators comparable
- Lesson 4.3: Regime Filtering - context-dependent trading
- Lesson 4.4: Combining Indicators - multi-factor approach
- Lesson 4.5: Testing Millions of Combinations - scale without overfitting
- Lesson 4.6: From Discovery to Production - the promotion pipeline
- Course progress: 27/43 lessons (63%) now live at targethit.ai/learn
School of Quant Trading: Foundation Level Complete
Free education course now has 11 lessons live - all 6 Foundation lessons plus 5 Data lessons
- Foundation Level 100% complete (6 lessons)
- Data Level 62% complete (5/8 lessons)
- New lessons: Course Roadmap, Alternative Data Intro, Funding Rates, Liquidation Levels
- Overall course 25% complete
School of Quant Trading Launched
Free educational course now live at targethit.ai/learn
- First 4 posts published covering Foundation and Data levels
- Topics: Why strategies fail, Edge vs Strategy, Beyond price/volume, Open Interest
- Full course will have 43 posts across 7 levels
January 15, 2026
Homemade Bot Protocol
Established standardized protocol for deploying new Polymarket prediction bots.
- Required: backtest, INSTRUCTIONS.md, MANIFEST.json per bot
- Minimum 30-trade OOS, 2.0+ profit factor for deployment
- Integration with copytrade engine for subscriber execution
MEXC Balance Display Fix
Fixed MEXC showing /bin/sh.00 balance on website
- Root cause: test-connection.py was hardcoded to return balance:0 for MEXC
- Now uses adapter get_balance() which handles proxy authentication correctly
BitGet Close Fix - Hedge Mode
Fixed hedge mode side parameter for BitGet close orders
- Root cause: BitGet hedge mode with tradeSide=close requires side=buy to close LONG and side=sell to close SHORT (opposite of normal trading)
- Our code had it backwards - verified fix with actual API test that successfully closed positions
MEXC Futures API Bypass Implemented
Added bypass adapter for MEXC Futures API that uses WEB token instead of API keys
- MEXC official Futures API has been in maintenance since July 2022
- New adapter uses internal web API with WEB token from u_id cookie
- Users need to: Login to MEXC -> F12 -> Application -> Cookies -> Copy u_id value
- Store WEB token in webToken field instead of apiKey
- Based on: github.com/biberhund/MEXC_Future_Order_API_Maintenance_Bypass
Telegram Notification Fix
Fixed issue where VIP users were not receiving Telegram signal notifications
- Root cause: Users connected Telegram via login widget but never started a chat with the bot
- Telegram requires users to initiate conversation before bot can send messages
- Added bot start prompt after Telegram linking
- Sent email notification to 53 affected VIP users with instructions
Portfolio Number in Notifications
Signals now show P1 or P2 in all notification channels
- Discord shows P1/P2 in embed title
- Telegram shows P1/P2 in message header
- Email shows P1/P2 in subject line and body
BYDFI Equity Calculation Fix
Fixed position sizing to use equity instead of balance
- Was using wallet balance causing oversized positions
- Now calculates equity = balance + unrealized PnL
- Prevents 250%+ position sizes when account has losses
P2 Scanner Z-Score Fix
Fixed P2 scanner to calculate z-scores for all indicators
- Scanner was only computing z-scores for 7 hardcoded indicators
- Now computes z-scores for ALL numeric columns dynamically
- P2 scanner now generating signals correctly
Backtest Stats Now Show in Telegram
Fixed notifications showing 0W/0L instead of actual backtest statistics
- Root cause: signal-router.py missing backtest_wins and backtest_events in base_data
- Signals now display correct stats like 55W/6L (90% WR)
P2 Scanner Fixed - All 23 Indicators Active
Fixed Portfolio 2 scanner that was missing most indicator calculations
- Added 4 missing HyBlock endpoints (globalBidAskRatio, openInterest, traderSentimentGap)
- Added 15+ technical indicators (ALMA, EMA, FWMA, HMA, PPO, TRIX, PVOL, etc.)
- Scanner now calculates all 23 required indicators for V8 edges
Discord Changelog Channel
New #changelog channel synced with website changelog page
- Updates posted to Discord and targethit.ai/changelog simultaneously
- 36 historical entries added (Dec 27 - Jan 16)
- Automated posting via TargetHit AI bot
FAQ & Mobile Navigation Updates
Added TP/SL explanation to FAQ and fixed mobile menu navigation
- New FAQ entry explaining time-based vs price-based signal exits
- Mobile hamburger menu now includes FAQ and Changelog links
Discovery Engine V8 - Robustness Scoring
New edge discovery methodology prioritizing future performance over past results
- Robustness scoring: fold consistency 25%, regime consistency 25%, sample credibility 20%
- Stricter thresholds: 88% min walk-forward accuracy, 75% holdout accuracy
- Excludes indicators with lookahead bias (future_return patterns)
- ICS_26 contamination discovered - 785/1747 V8 edges affected
January 14, 2026
Pipeline Health Dashboard
New admin dashboard for monitoring data pipeline and signal generation health
- Real-time status of HyBlock data freshness
- P1 and P2 scanner monitoring
- Edge stats updater tracking
- Accessible at /admin/pipeline
P2 V8 Edge Deployment
Deployed 26 V8 edges to Portfolio 2 with 90% average accuracy
- 11 LONG edges (91% avg WF accuracy)
- 15 SHORT edges (89% avg WF accuracy)
- All use 2h horizon with DPO_20_z primary indicator
- Expected 5-6 signals/day at 90% accuracy
P2 Overfitting Fix
Identified and fixed overfitting in P2 mean reversion edges
- Previous thresholds too strict: 60-114 samples with 98-100% accuracy
- Optimal thresholds changed to {2.0, 1.5} for 2,200+ events at 90%+ accuracy
- Deleted false signals generated by broken scanner
January 13, 2026
Optimal Data V3 — 3-Year Backfill
Completed 3-year historical data backfill across all endpoints.
- 2,182,702 parquet files totaling 16.34 GB
- Date range: 2023-01-09 to present (1,096 days)
- All 121 HyBlock endpoints fully populated
January 11, 2026
Discovery V8 — Deep Discovery
New deep discovery engine scanning all indicator combinations.
- Supports optimal_v3 dataset with 2,200+ columns
- Walk-forward testing with regime analysis
- Per-coin parallel execution for faster discovery
January 10, 2026
Discord Notification Fix - 50x Message Reduction
Fixed critical bug sending 50-60 Discord messages per signal instead of 1
- Signal router was queueing one message per user instead of per signal
- Restructured code to send single channel message per signal
- Added Discord/Telegram account disconnect buttons to settings
HyperLiquid Rate Limiting
Implemented per-exchange rate limiting to prevent API throttling
- HyperLiquid limited to 2 concurrent requests with 1s delays
- Other exchanges unaffected
- Resolved 429 error issues affecting trade execution
Optimal Data V2 Pipeline
New ML-ready data pipeline for edge discovery with 923 columns
- 7-phase build process for gap-free parquet files
- Pre-computed z-scores, percentiles, ROC values
- IC (Information Coefficient) calculation for indicator profiling
- 60 strong edges identified with EXTREME type signals
January 9, 2026
Signal Router Crash Fix
Fixed Redis data type error causing 11.5-hour service outage
- AttributeError on .decode() for already-decoded string
- Fixed health monitoring page undefined value crashes
- Updated URL redirections to /live-signals
January 8, 2026
AutoTrade v3 Deployment
Major auto-trade infrastructure upgrade with distributed workers
- autotrade-worker-v3: 25 workers on port 8765
- autoclose-worker-v3: 20 workers on port 8766
- Circuit breakers and health endpoints added
- V2 workers kept as backup
Free Telegram Channel Launch
Public channel receives one VIP signal per day after 3 AM ET
- Signals sent to @targethitfree channel
- Promotional link added to free channel messages
- Redis tracking for daily signal limit
Data Quality Backfill
Fixed 121 signals missing exit prices and 631 trades missing PnL
- Calculated exit prices from PnL percentages
- Derived missing PnL from signal exit prices
- Auto-Trade Health dashboard enhanced with per-exchange details
Claude Direct Server Access
Enabled Claude AI to execute commands directly on TargetHit servers
- ngrok tunnel for secure remote execution
- Robust HTTP server with multi-threading
- Sync script for automated context gathering
- Eliminates 400+ daily copy-paste operations
Market Cache Fix - CCXT Attributes
Fixed KeyError: 0 affecting Binance and HyperLiquid trades
- Cache was missing currencies, symbols, ids attributes
- Extended cache TTL from 1 hour to 12 hours
- Thread-safe locking prevents parallel market loads
January 7, 2026
Security Middleware Implementation
Protected all sensitive API endpoints after security audit
- NextAuth JWT authentication on /api/edges, /api/signals, /api/performance
- Updated robots.txt to stop advertising sensitive routes
- All endpoints now return 401 for unauthenticated requests
HyBlock API Complete Mapping
Discovered and documented all 73 available HyBlock endpoints
- Previously using 46 indicators, now have access to all 73
- 27 new indicators added to DATA-MONSTER
- Complete parameter requirements documented
Discovery Engine V7.1/V7.2 - Vectorized
Edge discovery optimized from 20+ days to minutes
- Multi-stage funnel with IC pre-screening
- Pre-computed signal masks for vectorized processing
- Walk-forward testing and regime analysis
- DPO_20 identified as primary alpha source
January 5, 2026
Notification System Overhaul
Fixed notifications only reaching auto-trade users
- New get_notification_users() queries ALL VIP users
- 71 VIP users now receive notifications (was only auto-trade subset)
- Changed display from PF to Forward W/L format
January 4, 2026
Comprehensive SEO Implementation
Added unique metadata to 25+ pages for better search visibility
- Created sitemap.xml and robots.txt
- Structured data markup added
- Google Search Console verification
- SOL and ETH trading guides created
January 3, 2026
Bitcoin Checkout Flow Redesign
New step-by-step checkout page for Bitcoin payments
- Intermediate checkout page with payment instructions
- Works with any wallet or exchange
- Custom BTCPay checkout styling
Forward Test Stats Display Fix
Fixed edge cards not showing forward test statistics
- Forward test wins/losses now display on edge cards
- Exit prices properly calculated and stored
- Fixed 195 signals missing exit price data
January 2, 2026
Portfolio #4 Launch - 91% Win Rate
Deployed new high-performance edge portfolio
- 14 new edges across BTC, SOL, and ETH
- 91.1% win rate on 45 forward-tested signals
- +27.4% total P&L in first week
- Retired 46 old SOLO edges
Live Signals Page Enhancements
Edge details now show regime performance and forward test data
- Click any edge for detailed stats
- Regime performance breakdown (Bull/Bear/Sideways)
- Current market regime indicator
- Signal history with entry/exit prices
January 1, 2026
Auto-Trade 15x Speed Improvement
Parallelized autoclose worker for faster position closing
- Now processes 15 trades in parallel
- Reduced closing delays from minutes to seconds
- Fixed sequential processing bottleneck
Exchange Adapter Fixes
Fixed multiple exchange integration issues
- Bybit: Fixed API timeout with proxy latency
- HyperLiquid: Resolved rate limiting (429 errors)
- BYDFI: Fixed position size calculation (was 100x too small)
- Bitget: Fixed hedge mode vs one-way mode detection
December 31, 2025
Position Sizing Upgrade - Up to 250%
Increased maximum position size from 100% to 250% of equity
- Slider now allows up to 250% position sizing
- Updated risk warnings with max concurrent trade info
Solo Scanner Architecture
New signal scanning system with multiple market coverage
- 346 solo signals tracked
- 80.1% win rate, +378.1% cumulative P&L
- 2-hour minimum gap between same-edge signals
December 30, 2025
Autoclose Worker Fixes
Fixed trades not closing at signal expiration
- Added quantity tracking for partial closes
- Fixed authentication between servers
- System health dashboard for monitoring
December 29, 2025
FLIP Mode Trading
Automatic position reversal when direction changes
- Same-direction signals now stack
- Opposite-direction signals trigger automatic close + open
- 109% returns with 3.87% max drawdown vs 120%/7.90% for horizon method
Percentage-Based Position Sizing
Changed from fixed USD to equity percentage sizing
- Uses actual equity (balance + unrealized PnL)
- Profits compound automatically as balance grows
- Per-exchange adapters updated
Data Pipeline Stale Data Fix
Fixed V9-4-live data becoming 30+ hours stale
- Missing openDate column in timestamp detection
- Fixed pandas 15m vs 15min syntax issue
- HyBlock API quota exceeded - 1.87M extra requests
December 28, 2025
BTCPay Server Integration
Bitcoin and Lightning payment option for lifetime VIP
- $599 Founding Member lifetime pricing
- pay.targethit.ai with SSL
- Automatic VIP upgrade on payment confirmation
- First 2 sales totaling ~$1,200
December 27, 2025
Twitter Customer Acquisition Dashboard
Built hunting dashboard for organic Twitter outreach
- Multi-tab interface at /L-A/
- Search term categories (High Pain, Frustrated, Searching)
- Response assistant with situation categorization
- Daily progress tracking
December 26, 2025
FLIP Mode & Equity Sizing UI
Complete auto-trade system overhaul with new UI
- Direction-aware position management
- True equity calculation (balance + unrealized)
- Performance comparison: FLIP vs horizon method
- Updated for all 6 exchanges