Desk Discipline instruments
The operational envelope of a live book, instrumented: distance to the rules that end accounts, the behaviour of today’s positions under replayed shocks, and whether the execution path itself leaks.
Receipt page · proof before pitchHow the Desk Discipline suite measuresVersioned methodology · pre-registrations · proof corpus · changelog · recomputation steps- Instruments
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- Published measurements
- NOT YET PUBLISHED
The problem, in the customer’s words
I did not lose the evaluation on a bad idea. I lost it on a daily-loss rule I was closer to than I realised, in positions I had been counting as separate trades.
Not a customer quotation. Nothing on this site is attributed to a customer, and no testimonial appears anywhere on it — this is the problem the family exists for, written the plain way it gets put.
What this family is for
The family that instruments the operational envelope of a live book: distance to the rules that end accounts, the behaviour of current positions under replayed historical shocks, and whether the execution path itself leaks time and money.
The Prop-Evaluee Risk Guardian measures against the actual rules of a funded-account evaluation — live halt distance to every account-ending rule in units of adverse movement at current sizing, correlation-adjusted effective exposure across the book, risk-of-ruin surfaces recomputed as the account moves with their assumptions visible, and sizing grids precomputed under the evaluation’s own rules.
The Stress Harness replays recorded historical shocks against today’s positions with gap-through and vacuum-fill honesty — no assumed fills through empty books — and raises a ruin flag where a scenario ends the account. The Latency Arb Tracker measures whether fills are systematically worse than quotes by more than noise can explain, as a signed distribution with adverse-selection signatures and rejection clustering, and it will not name a culprit: measured disadvantage has innocent explanations, and they are enumerated beside every finding.
Accounts are ended by arithmetic and structure at least as often as by bad ideas. This family has no opinion about anyone’s entries. It polices the boundary between a strategy and the rules its owner agreed to.
The 3 instruments in this suite
Every card states both halves: what the instrument measures, and what it does not establish. The figure on each card is an anticipated pre-launch indication, priced out in full in the table below, and no measurement from this suite has been published yet.
Drawdown-halt monitoring, sizing grids, risk-of-ruin surfaces, correlation-adjusted heat.
Anticipated£29/mo · £290/yr
- Measures
- Live halt distance to every rule that can end an evaluation, in units of adverse movement at current sizing; correlation-adjusted effective exposure across the book; risk-of-ruin surfaces recomputed as the account moves with their assumptions visible; and precomputed sizing grids.
- Does not establish
- It does not improve your entries and holds no opinion on your strategy. It polices the boundary between a strategy and the rules its owner agreed to — because the strategy cannot pay off from a breached account.
What would 2015-01-15 do to your book today?
Anticipated£49/mo · £490/yr
- Measures
- Recorded shocks replayed against the book you hold now: named scenarios at current sizing, gap-through honesty where the historical path jumped your stop, vacuum-fill accounting, a ruin flag where a scenario ends the account, and position-level attribution.
- Does not establish
- It does not forecast the next shock — by construction, the events that break books are the ones the sample did not contain. It replays recorded prices, not your venue’s discretion: requotes, widening and liquidation order are broker behaviour, and that boundary is stated beside every ruin flag.
Detect structural front-running before the execution desk calls you.
AnticipatedNOT YET PRICED
- What it will measure
- Quote-to-fill drift as a signed distribution rather than an anecdote; adverse-selection signatures in the milliseconds around your own orders, conditioned on order type, session and size; and the clustering structure of rejections and requotes.
- Does not establish
- It will not name a culprit. Measured latency disadvantage has innocent explanations — routing, session load, your own infrastructure — and they are enumerated honestly beside every finding. It establishes that you are structurally slow and where it costs you, with distributions and sample sizes.
What the Desk Discipline suite is anticipated to cost
Every figure below is an anticipated pre-launch indication read from the instrument catalogue — not a confirmed price, not a quote and not an offer. Nothing on this site is purchasable: there is no checkout, no cart and no payment link on any page. The launch list is the only thing open.
| Instrument | Billed monthly | Billed annually |
|---|---|---|
| P3 Prop-Evaluee Risk Guardiandesk editions from £99/mo (£990/yr on annual billing) | £29/mo | £290/yr |
| P8 Stress Harness | £49/mo | £490/yr |
| P22 Latency Arb TrackerNo figure has been directed for this instrument, because it is not built yet — its own page is written in the future tense for the same reason. A complete price list with one honest gap reads truer than a complete one, so the gap stays until there is something real to price. | NOT YET PRICED | |
The family arithmetic
What licensing every instrument in this family separately would come to. The lines stay apart where their units differ — a per-seat licence, a flat account licence and a scoped engagement cannot be added into one number, and a single tidier figure would be a false one. The totals cover 2 of 3 instruments: the rest are NOT YET PRICED and are left out rather than estimated.
- Per account, billed monthly
- £78/moP3 + P8, summed at their monthly figures.
- Per account, billed annually
- £780/yr£78 × 10 months = £780. Twelve months of service, ten months paid.
Check the arithmetic
Across P3 + P8, billed monthly for a year: £78 × 12 = £936. The same instruments billed annually: £780. The gap is exactly two months — £156.
A three-year term pays eight months per year of service: 8 × 3 = 24 months. At £78/mo across P3 + P8, that is £1,872 for three years of service. Two years of monthly billing is £936 × 2 = £1,872. The same number: three years of service for what two years of monthly billing costs.
What a suite licence would change
Nothing yet, and I will not pretend otherwise. The totals above are the plain arithmetic sum of licensing each instrument on its own — that sum is a fact you can add up yourself. I have not directed a suite or bundle discount, so none appears here. Publishing an invented one would be the exact class of fabrication this site exists to argue against, and a figure I would then have to withdraw is worth less than an honest blank.
What has been directed is the commitment ladder below and, for the instruments licensed per seat, the seat bands underneath it. Both are anticipated and both await ratification. Multi-entity and multi-network groups are licensed by negotiation rather than by seat count: flat-rate instruments scale by entity, never by seat, and a negotiated number is not a list price so none is published. The full model sits on the pricing page, and the terms themselves on the licensing page.
Longer terms: one month less per year, per step
The months paid for each year of service fall from twelve on monthly billing to eight on a three-year term.
| Term | Months paid per year | What it does to the annual list |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly billing | 12 | Twelve months paid for twelve months of service. Costs 20% more than the annual list — that uplift is the whole difference. |
| One-year term | 10 | Ten months paid for twelve months of service. This is the annual list in the table above. |
| Two-year term | 9 | Nine months paid per year of service — a tenth off the annual list, with the figure held for the term. |
| Three-year term | 8 | Eight months paid per year of service — a fifth off the annual list, with the figure held for the term. |
Standing policy — read beside every figure above
- No promise of profit, ever. Hadal makes no performance claims and carries no implied edge. Past measurements describe instrument behaviour — never future returns.
- You own risk management. Hadal cannot control it and does not insure it. Good tools do not fix bad discipline — and this site says so.
- Analytical tools, for discretionary use. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to trade. Every decision, and every outcome, is yours.
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How the instruments connect
Input, then which instrument runs, then what it returns, then what the next one consumes. This diagram describes the workflow only. No step on it is a result, and this family has published none.
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Input: the book as held, at the size held, under the rules agreed
Positions, current sizing and the evaluation’s own account-ending rules. Nothing in this family reads a strategy; all three instruments read the same book.
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P3 Prop-Evaluee Risk Guardian measures the normal-conditions envelope
Returns live halt distance to every account-ending rule, correlation-adjusted effective exposure, risk-of-ruin surfaces with their assumptions visible, and precomputed sizing grids. The next step consumes the same positions at the same sizing.
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P8 Stress Harness replays recorded shocks against those positions
Returns per-scenario outcomes with gap-through and vacuum-fill honesty, a ruin flag where a scenario ends the account, and position-level attribution of where the damage sat.
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P22 Latency Arb Tracker measures the execution path itself
Consumes your orders and fills, and will return quote-to-fill drift as a signed distribution, adverse-selection signatures and rejection clustering — with the innocent explanations enumerated beside every finding.
Every sizing decision re-enters at step 01. The envelope is a function of the book, and the book moves.
The Desk Discipline workflow, end to end: what enters the family, which instrument acts at each stage, and what the next stage consumes.
A process diagram establishes nothing about any market. It states how the instruments are wired to each other — not that any of them has measured anything.
The diagram is the shape; the suite-workflow documentation is the order you actually run them in, including which stages can be skipped and which cannot. It is published before the product, so the intended sequence can be held against whatever ships.
One worked example
NOT YET PUBLISHED
No worked example exists for this suite, because no measurement from it has been published. Rather than stage one from invented data, the five slots a worked example will carry are named in the empty figure beneath this note, with their contents stated and every slot empty. Nothing here is an example run, and no figure, date or digest appears in it.
- Inputs
The book as held — positions, sizing and the account rules in force — together with the scenario library the replay drew from.
NOT YET PUBLISHED- The run
Which scenarios were replayed, under which fill discipline, and the sizing grid in force at the moment of the run.
NOT YET PUBLISHED- Artifact digest
The digest of the position snapshot and of the scenario outputs, so the same book can be re-run against the same shocks.
NOT YET PUBLISHED- The finding
Which rule sat closest, or which scenario raised a ruin flag, with the position that carried the damage named rather than pooled.
NOT YET PUBLISHED- The limits
That surviving the library is not safety — the next shock is not in it — and that venue discretion during a vacuum is not a historical price series.
NOT YET PUBLISHED
The five slots a Desk Discipline worked example will carry. Each row states what the slot will contain; none of them contains it yet.
An empty structure establishes nothing. It shows the shape of the evidence this suite intends to publish, and the absence of that evidence today.
When the first example publishes it will appear here with its artifact downloadable and its digest on the Desk Discipline receipt page, where the steps for re-deriving it are already written out.