🐦 CUCKOO v1.0.0 — Copy-the-Copiers (Meta-Strategy Follower)

Let the best strategies do the work. A cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds' nests. Cuckoo lets the platform's top-performing strategies find the trades, then rides whatever they agree on most — weighted by how well each one is actually doing.

Why this strategy exists

Following a single trader (Remora) or a leaderboard universe (Raptor/Jackal/Spider) is one layer. Cuckoo is a layer above that: it follows the top-performing strategies — which are themselves copy/algo/trader-following strategies — so it captures the consensus of the consensus. When the best strategies on the platform are independently piling into the same asset+direction, that agreement is a strong, self-cleaning signal: underperformers fall out of the top-N automatically, so the pool refreshes toward whatever is working.

CRITICAL RULES

RULE 1: Auto-discovered, not hand-picked

Cuckoo pulls the top topN strategies by realized performance every tick (discovery_get_top_strategies). There is no operator whale list (that's Remora) — the pool is discovered and refreshes as performance changes.

RULE 2: Performance-weighted consensus

Each top strategy casts one vote per (asset, direction) it holds above minNotionalUsd, weighted by performance_weight(roi) = clamp(1 + roi/50, 0.5, weightCap). A flat strategy weighs 1.0; a +100% strategy hits the cap; a losing strategy floors at 0.5. The cap stops one outlier from dominating.

RULE 3: Consensus is the gate

Votes are tallied into (asset, direction) candidates. Entry requires at least minStrategies (default 2) top strategies in agreement — one strategy's position is never enough.