# Dragon RC1 Release

- Release version: `RC1`
- Strategy branch: `alpha_first_glued_refined_hot_cap`
- Freeze date: `2026-04-05`
- Evaluation window: `2016-01-01` to `2025-12-31`

## Freeze Intent
- `RC1` is the first frozen release candidate of the refined alpha branch.
- Its purpose is not to continue blind optimization, but to serve as the tracked strategy candidate for daily signal production and monitoring.

## Frozen Headline
- trades: `91`
- win_rate: `52.75%`
- avg_return: `3.42%`
- median_return: `0.25%`
- profit_factor: `5.11`
- compounded_return: `1424.12%`
- CAGR: `31.32%`
- max_drawdown: `-12.79%`
- drawdown_duration_trades: `16`

## Operating Rule
- Treat `RC1` as the forward default branch.
- Do not change frozen core parameters inside `RC1` directly.
- Any future core-threshold change must create a new named branch and go through attribution plus execution-aware stress again.

## Artifacts
- `dragon_rc1_config_snapshot.json`
- `dragon_formal_strategy_governance.md`
- `dragon_parameter_governance.md`
- `dragon_formal_strategy_memo.md`