AlphaAssay
GLOSSARY
The AlphaAssay vocabulary, defined
The terms this platform coined, or uses in a precise and non-obvious way — one definition each, stable and quotable. For the name collision with laboratory assays, see AlphaAssay vs. "alpha assay".
DEFINED TERMS
One line per term
| term | definition |
|---|---|
| assay office (for trading signals) | AlphaAssay's positioning: an independent office that grades signals and never trades them — no execution logic, no custody, no order path. |
| golden specimen | a known-answer test case with a planted flaw, used to verify AlphaAssay's correctness for free before paying anything. docs/specimens |
| died_at | the exact stage that first killed a signal in the assay battery — a diagnosis, not a bare fail. docs/verdicts |
| failure code | the machine-readable reason a signal failed, designed for an agent to branch on. docs/failure-codes |
| family budget | how many meaningful tries remain for a strategy family before one more variant cannot be distinguished from luck. |
| placebo percentile | a signal's timing skill measured against 500 matched random twins with the same trading profile; 50 means indistinguishable from chance. |
| calibration record | the public, daily-updated ledger in which AlphaAssay grades its own past verdicts — irrevocable, pullable without an account. trust |
| demote-only verdict | a verdict that can devalue a signal but never bless one: new evidence only ever lowers a grade. |
Each definition is the canonical one — registries, docs and listings reuse these sentences verbatim, because a vocabulary that drifts between surfaces stops being a vocabulary.