Task 25
Financial Astrology · CONTROLA deliberately worthless signal — Mercury retrograde, moon phase, planetary aspects — run through the same honest backtest as everything else. The LLM writes the horoscope; the engine ignores it.
⚠️ Control / placebo agent — no economic mechanism. Financial astrology runs the identical lookahead-free backtest as the real agents on a predictively-worthless signal, to calibrate the suite's false-positive rate. If this prints a high Sharpe, the framework is leaking — not the planets working. Planetary positions are a pure function of the date, so it's if anything more lookahead-free than the filing-based agents.