SimpleFunctions Developer Manual

Trade ideas are the daily output of an agent loop running over every active market. They appear in sf ideas, the /ideas page, and the get_trade_ideas MCP tool.

Pipeline

market universe  →  filter unsuitable  →  attach quantSignals  →  generate ideas  →  surfaces

The idea pipeline runs an LLM-backed market analysis loop that:

Pull world snapshot

Latest world state including regimes, indicators, and salient items.

Filter unsuitable

Skip sports, esports, low liquidity, settled markets.

Generate structured ideas

One idea per surviving market, with thesis summary and edge direction.

Compute quantSignals

IY, CRI, regime tags, theme tag.

Persist with provenance

Model name, prompt version, generated-at timestamp.

Idea schema

{
  "id": "i_...",
  "ticker": "KXRATECUT-26DEC31",
  "title": "...",
  "thesisSummary": "...",
  "edge": {
    "direction": "buy_yes",
    "edgeCents": 4,
    "confidence": 0.7
  },
  "quantSignals": {
    "iyYes": 18.4,
    "cri": 22,
    "regimeLabel": "observable_macro_balanced",
    "lasCents": 2
  },
  "theme": "fed-monetary",
  "provenance": {
    "model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6",
    "promptVersion": "v3.1",
    "generatedAt": "2026-04-30T23:00:00Z"
  }
}

Filters

Unsuitable categories — sports, esports, weather, gimmicks (configurable).
Settled markets — price ≤ 2¢ or ≥ 98¢, or |edge| ≥ 90¢.
Stale markets — tauDays ≤ 0.

Surfaces

CLI: sf ideas --json
API: GET /api/public/ideas
MCP: get_trade_ideas
Web: simplefunctions.dev/ideas

Next steps

Regime

Labels that drive idea filtering.

Indicators

What’s in quantSignals.

Trade intents

How to act on an idea.

Foundation

Mechanics

Operations

Idea pipeline

Pipeline

Idea schema

Filters

Surfaces

Next steps

Regime

Indicators

Trade intents

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Regime

Indicators

Trade intents

Pipeline

Idea schema

Filters

Surfaces

Next steps