Brain-Alpha-Pipeline: WorldQuant BRAIN Research Automation

Brain-Alpha-Pipeline is an autonomous quantitative research and execution pipeline that continuously generates, screens, sweeps, and correlation-checks equity alpha candidates on the WorldQuant BRAIN platform. It serves as the live orchestration harness powered end-to-end by the modular `brain-libraries` suite.

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Research Automation Architecture

• Scheduled Strategy Engine: Autonomous worker loop programmatically testing cross-sectional rankings, time-series decay operators, and multi-factor expressions across diverse datasets.
• Integrated Orthogonal Decorrelation: Automatically pipes candidate expressions through `brain-decorrelator` to clear the platform's strict $|\rho| < 0.70$ correlation gatekeeper before running costly full simulations.
• Dual-Mode Persistence: Integrates with brain-store for PostgreSQL connection pooling and offline file fallbacks, tracking historical submissions and correlation matrices.
• Fail-Loud Configuration: Implements strict startup validation (MissingConfigError) ensuring API keys, database credentials, and risk boundaries are verified before execution.
• Human-in-the-Loop Safeguards: Features automated Telegram alerting with statistical performance summaries (Sharpe ratio, turnover, fitness score, margin) for human review and final submission approval.