Z Cards

Atomic Intelligence Units

Cards are reusable judgment objects for strategy, signal, execution, risk, and method transfer.

A funding-stress monitor can warn before equity volatility reprices.

Use Case: Promoted from Alpha Factory draft alpha_20260702022000_usd-funding-stress-as-equity-vol-trigger.

A liquidity premium monitor can separate default risk from liquidity-driven spread widening.

Use Case: Promoted from Alpha Factory draft alpha_20260701150133_corporate-yield-spreads-and-bond-liquidity.

A card for handling fast markets, wide spreads, liquidity air pockets, and broken execution assumptions.

Use Case: Used when event-driven volatility expands and normal entry logic becomes dangerous.

Tracks policy reversal probability, market repricing windows, and timing mismatch between rhetoric and positioning.

Use Case: Useful in politically driven headline markets where reversal timing matters more than direction alone.

A reusable card for converting research papers into buildable strategy or monitoring objects.

Use Case: Used in the papers module to judge whether a method deserves implementation or just tracking.

A card for tracking cross-currency basis, repo dislocations, and balance-sheet stress as early warning signals.

Use Case: Useful for macro risk monitoring and market structure deterioration detection.

A serial decision card combining direction filter and time-window filter before execution.

Use Case: Fits small-account CTA style systems where timing asymmetry matters as much as direction.