llms.txt
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https://canlicapital.com/llms.txt
− > Canli Capital is an open research lab for quantitative finance that tests whether trading backtests are real or luck. Use its free validators in your browser, over an API or through an MCP client. Inspect SEC-traced company data and its own public paper-trading record, with failures and corrections kept visible. Built and maintained by Arhan Canli.− - [Home](https://canlicapital.com/): What the project is and where to go next.− - [Sitemap](https://canlicapital.com/sitemap.xml): all 341 indexable routes.+ > Canli Capital is an open-source lab that connects AI agents to financial data and quant tools they can check. Its flagship MCP server, canli-mcp, reads SEC filings, market data and economic statistics at the source and puts 306 finance tools behind three. The code is free and MIT-licensed. Built and maintained by Arhan Canli.+ - [Home](https://canlicapital.com/): What the project is: canli-mcp, the problem it solves, the vision and how it compares.+ - [Finance MCP servers, head to head](https://canlicapital.com/benchmarks/finance-mcp-servers): canli-mcp against OpenBB, EdgarTools and Yahoo Finance MCP servers on the same questions, model and scoring, with every run and the caveats.+ - [The record](https://canlicapital.com/record): The ALPHAC paper-trading record, published daily, with the trials that failed.+ - [Was the winning strategy skill or luck?](https://canlicapital.com/notes/best-of-399-strategies): I ran 399 textbook trading strategies on the same prices and asked whether the winner was skill. The answer depended almost entirely on which test I used, because the tests were answering different questions, and only one of them was the question I meant.+ - [The same SEC filing has two acceptance times](https://canlicapital.com/notes/edgar-acceptance-times): EDGAR's submissions API labels each filing's acceptance time as UTC. I checked 450 of them against the filing index pages: in 13 of 25 companies' files every time was late by one US Eastern offset, and the same filing read differently depending on which file it came from.+ - [My agent dropped numbers when it copied data into a tool call](https://canlicapital.com/notes/pasted-data-lost-numbers): Same model, same question, same tool. With 756 daily returns pasted into the prompt, the agent got 4 of 9 runs right; when the tool read the same series from a file, it got 8 of 9, with about a quarter of the tokens.+ - ["Silver price" returned US CPI](https://canlicapital.com/notes/silver-price-returned-cpi): A tool that turns plain words into a data series picked any series sharing half the words of the request. One generic word was enough, so "silver price" came back as consumer prices, with real numbers and no error.+ - [Your backtest beat a t-test. Would it beat a placebo?](https://canlicapital.com/notes/would-it-beat-a-placebo): In 300,000 simulated tests on markets with nothing to predict, a t-test on the best rule of a grid said "edge" between 10.9% and 78.9% of the time at a nominal 5%. A placebo test, which reruns the whole pipeline on the same returns in a random order, stayed between 4.6% and 5.5%.+ - [Sitemap](https://canlicapital.com/sitemap.xml): all 348 indexable routes.