The audit trail behind a WAIT. Before Quantustik publishes a BUY, the candidate runs a fixed sequence of independent safety checks, and the suppression-gate trace is the itemised record of that run — one row per check, in the order they fire, each stamped PASSED, BLOCKED or NOT RUN. On the ticker page it appears under the heading "Safety checks". Its job is to show you, in plain language, exactly why a stock the model liked was still not published as a BUY.
Every gate in the trace can do exactly one thing: stop a BUY. None of them can turn a WAIT into a BUY, add conviction, or improve a setup — they only ever subtract. That is what "suppression" means here, and it is deliberate: the conviction ledger decides how convinced the model is, and then the gates get a series of chances to veto publishing that conviction as a tradeable BUY. Evidence builds the case; the gates can only throw it out.
So the trace reads in one direction. A screen full of PASSED does not add up to a stronger BUY — it just means nothing objected. The informative rows are the ones that did object.
Each row is written as a statement that is TRUE when it passes — for example "No earnings report is uncomfortably close" — so the badge beside it just tells you whether that sentence held. PASSED: the check looked and did not block. BLOCKED: this is the check that stopped the BUY — the single most useful line in the whole trace, because it names the one specific objection you would have to disagree with. NOT RUN: the check was never reached, because an earlier one had already blocked the signal, so rather than imply it passed we mark it honestly as never evaluated.
Read top to bottom, the trace tells the story of how far a candidate got before something stopped it. The full list of eleven checks, the order they run in, and the two hard numbers you will see most (a 2:1 reward-to-risk minimum and the hostile-market-conditions block) are laid out on the "how signal gating works" page.
A suppression gate that keeps you out of a good trade is the price you pay for the far larger number of bad ones it keeps you out of. This is the trade-off worth internalising: because the gates are tuned to be conservative, they will sometimes block a stock that then runs up without you. On that single day the gate looks like it cost you money — and in isolation, it did.
The case for accepting that cost is asymmetry, not infallibility. A missed trade costs you an opportunity; a bad trade costs you capital, and losses compound against you harder than gains compound for you. A filter that removes many expensive mistakes at the price of a few missed winners can still leave you far ahead — but only if you understand going in that the missed winners are part of the deal, not a malfunction. We show the trace precisely so you can see the bill, not just the benefit.
Find the BLOCKED row first — it is the entire reason the verdict is WAIT rather than BUY. Then ask whether you actually disagree with that specific objection. "Market fear is too high to enter safely" is a different thing to argue with than "an earnings report is too close" or "the reward is not big enough for the risk", and the trace hands you the exact one rather than a vague "we said no".
Treat a BLOCKED gate as information, not as a challenge to beat. If you decide to take a trade the platform suppressed, do it knowing which safety check you are overriding and why — that is a defensible decision. Overriding a gate you have not read is not.
Yes. "Suppression-gate trace" is the internal name for that record; on the ticker page it is shown under the heading "Safety checks". Same list, same PASSED / BLOCKED / NOT RUN badges, same order.
No. The gates only ever suppress a BUY; they never strengthen one. A full row of PASSED means nothing objected to publishing the signal — how convinced the model actually is comes from the conviction ledger, and how our published signals have actually performed is on the track-record and calibration pages. Passing every gate is not a promise the trade will work.
On that one trade, yes — and the trace does not hide it. Gates are conservative on purpose, so some blocked stocks do run up without you. The bet is that over many decisions, filtering out the expensive mistakes is worth missing the occasional winner, because a bad trade costs capital while a missed one only costs opportunity. It is a trade-off, not a guarantee, and the trace shows you both sides of it.
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