Some firms record payouts as "Challenge Payout" in the Cash History
rather than "Fund Transaction" or "Manual Adjustment". Without this the
payout was summed into that day's P&L (a -2,000 payout turned a +1,416
day into -584) and never reset the cycle, so daysTraded kept counting
and the stage never advanced.
Verified against a captured report: the payout is now recorded as a
fund transaction, excluded from daily P&L, and because its timestamp
precedes the day's first trade the day's trades land in the new cycle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the Yahoo continuous-contract month parse with a volume-based
probe: walk the next 6 month codes via Yahoo's specific tickers
({PROD}{MONTH}{YY}.{EXCHANGE}) and pick the one with the highest recent
volume. Tracks the trader-standard "front month" definition and rolls
correctly even when the continuous (=F) feed lags expiry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
