Read the principles in order

From reading the field to saving seed, explore the six steps behind Demeter’s decisions.

Farming principles

In the order
you farm a year

The six seasons are not a metaphor; they are what the engine actually does. Read all six steps in order below. The numbers are today's values.

Indicator links recomputed daily

01Read the field

A link that held yesterday is not assumed to hold today. It is drawn again from scratch, every day.

US 10Y Dollar index Policy uncertainty VIX Copper KRW/USD KOSPI

False links are stripped out

When A and B move together, it is usually because of C. Only the links that survive once the third cause is removed count.

Similar years are found

The past period that looked most like today, and what actually happened next. Not a forecast. A precedent.

Links surviving the latest run: 679,323 · the oldest data point is from 1913.

Hypotheses scored; only passes are used

02Choose the seed

"This indicator moves that instrument" is a hypothesis. It is scored against the data. Only what passes may move money. Ours included.

138Passed · trades live
224Weak · on hold
4Contradicted · not used
9not scored yet

Split by horizon and by market

03Plant in plots

Not everything goes into one field. Three plots with different horizons, and a wallet per market.

01

The days plot

Watches gaps that open intraday. If it is wrong, it cuts the same day.

02

The weeks plot

Rides out the shift as market conditions turn over.

03

The months plot

Watches slow structural moves. It is rarely touched.

One plot being wrong does not shake the rest.

Youset the cash to keep
Eachmarket holds its own cash back
  • Broker dollars, broker won and exchange won are counted separately. No venue runs dry and blocks an order.
  • The rest does not sit idle. On volatile days it moves into bonds and gold instead of cash. Stepping back is not standing still.

Eight validation gates before live

04Wait

A strategy has to clear eight gates to be called validated. No strategy has cleared all eight yet, so today orders follow basic rules — diversification, a cash floor, stop-losses — inside the limits you set.

01Did it peek at the future? Slip the answers into the data and the score must collapse.
02Did it live through history in order? Relearns each quarter, with a gap between learning and testing.
03Does it work on five years it never saw? Enough separate trades to trust the result.
04Does it survive double the costs? Priced harsher than reality, still profitable.
05Is it fitted only to the past? That degree is measured and compared to a benchmark.
06Is it luck? Ranked against randomly shuffled fake data.
07Can you say why it earns? In three sentences.
08Does live match the math? Run for real and compared to the calculation.

We have tested 168 so far.
The number that cleared all eight gates is 0.
A strategy that has not cleared them is never called validated.

Most die at gates three and four. They vanish once costs are doubled. Be careful with anyone who hides this table.

Live account, published as is

05Reap

7 days into real money. No profit screenshots yet. Here is the field, in plain numbers.

ItemNowWhat it means
Live trading8 days · 9 fillsStarted September 8, 2026. Real money, real orders.
Cumulative return-2.02%8 days is not long enough to judge performance.
Strategies past validation0 / 168No strategy has cleared all eight gates yet.
Validated indicator links138 / 375Only these are allowed to move money.
Tested on unseen years9.6 yrs avgOnly on periods it never learned from.

What moves the live account today is basic discipline: diversification, the cash floor, stop-losses. Hiding these numbers would cast doubt on the gates too.

The machinery that prevents loss

06Keep the seed

Even in a lean year you do not eat the seed. Not-losing was built before earning.

Cash that is never touched

The cash floor is never invested, whatever the signal says. You set the per-order ceiling and daily loss limit; past that line, refused.

It stops when something looks wrong

Every fifteen minutes it checks for signs of hacking. If something looks off, only new buying halts. Selling and stop-losses keep running.

Every order carries a tamper-proof signature

An order the engine did not create does not go out. Slip one in by hand and it is refused. No signature.

And the field stays yours throughout

A program, not a service. Your account keys stay on your machine, encrypted — copy the file elsewhere and it will not open.

  • We cannot see a buyer's account keys either. There is no path by which we could.
  • Fills, balances and every decision stay on your own machine.
  • Every buy and sell leaves a plain-language line saying why.
  • It does not connect your account to a server. Nobody else's server touches your money.
  • It is not a signal service. Each install sizes its own decisions to its own account and limits.

Why this exists

Knowing the stock
was never the problem

Sound familiar? It did to the person who built this.

One

The stock was not the answer

Even with a good name in hand, no expert can promise it will make money.

Two

You set the rules,
and cannot follow them

The stop-loss comes and your hand will not move. Something small becomes something large. Everyone does this.

Three

So two things changed

What to look at Not one name, but how 2,639 indicators connect.
Who keeps the rules Out of human hands, into the machine.

A person can hold five indicators in their head.
The machine holds 2,639 and recomputes them every day.

And I did not
lower the bar

On past data it looks great. Live is different. In between, eight gates.

So Demeter does not name stocks for you.

It moves only when the indicator links speak clearly. The six seasons below are how.

168strategies tested
8gates to clear
0cleared all eight
  • Lower the bar and some pass. Cut the cost multiplier from 2× to 1.2× and they appear. We did not.
  • The failures were not deleted. They stay open.
  • Not-losing came first. A safety does not cut your return. It keeps the chance of one alive.