Contraction News Entry Confidence Threshold
What it does
Minimum Claude news classifier confidence score required to trigger a contraction news entry. The contraction engine has an optional offensive mode (gated off by default) where a high-confidence news headline about a specific company can trigger a short-dated entry on that name. This threshold controls how confident the classifier must be before the entry fires. At 0.75, the classifier must be at least 75% confident in the directional signal.
When to change it
Raise to 0.85-0.90 to require very high confidence before news-triggered entries. Lower to 0.65 to allow more entries on moderate confidence signals. This setting only matters when contraction_news_entry_enabled is ON; that feature is off by default pending live validation.
Safe range
0.60 (more entries, lower confidence required) to 0.95 (very selective). Default 0.75 is a reasonable starting point once the feature is enabled.
Example
News classifier rates a headline as 0.82 confidence bearish for TSLA. With threshold=0.75, the signal clears the gate and a contraction entry is evaluated. With threshold=0.85, this signal is skipped.