Earnings Engine: Max Alloc %
Setting key
engine_max_alloc_pct_earnings
Default
30%
What it does
Caps the fraction of your total allocation budget the earnings engine may use. Because earnings trades are binary-event positions, keeping this ceiling tight limits concentrated exposure to a single reporting cycle. This ceiling is independent of the other engines; they do not need to sum to 100%.
When to change it
Lower it during heavy earnings seasons when many names report in the same week and you want to cap aggregate binary-event exposure. Raise it only if you are deliberately running earnings as a larger part of the book.
Safe range
15% (conservative, binary risk kept small) to 40% (above this, a single bad earnings week can hurt).
Example
Set to 30 → even if five earnings candidates qualify in the same cycle, the engine stops entering once it has deployed 30% of the cap.