Settings

COSTS — APPLIED TO EVERY NEW RUN

Commission$ / contract / side

Slippage× half-spread

Buys fill toward the ask, sells toward the bid, plus this fraction of the half-spread. Mid fills (0) are banned by design — slippage is a floor, not a knob you can zero out.

APPEARANCE

Mode

Accent

The accent is the trust hue — verdicts, trust bands and controls. It never colors profit or loss, in either mode.

VERBIAGE COMPLEXITY

Full quantitative language — Sharpe ratios, percentiles, out-of-sample splits, deflated statistics. For readers who live in this vocabulary.

SYSTEM STATUS

Backendchecking…

Data lake (R2)—

Runs database—

Backtest engine + gauntlet—

NL parser—

Verdict narration—

Grounded Q&A—

Model—

Minimum trades for a verdict—

Numeric validationon — no un-computed numbers

Seedsfixed & logged per run

Skeptic is a research instrument. It produces no recommendations to buy or sell any security. Backtests are computed on approximate, self-collected data and systematically overstate real-world results. Past performance does not predict future results.