From idea to spec

A trading idea is usually fuzzy.

“Buy dips” is not a strategy. The engine needs to know:

• what market
• what timeframe
• what data to read
• what condition means “dip”
• how much cash to use
• what happens when cash is missing
• what state must carry forward
• when the rule stops

The system’s job is to turn the human idea into a spec the machine can inspect.

That spec must be explicit before any backtest or execution path can be trusted.