Week 5 — Buffer — consolidate weeks 1–4

Milestone

Close all open gaps from weeks 1–4. No new features.

Success criteria

All prior milestones fully met, tests green, notes cleaned up, no known blockers carried forward.

Deliverables

• [ ] Audit weeks 1–4 milestones and close gaps.
• [ ] Fix or complete any incomplete deliverables.
• [ ] Refactor or clean up code that accumulated tech debt.
• [ ] Consolidate notes and update README.
• [ ] Plan weeks 6–9 adjustments if needed.

Books

• Quantitative Trading - Ernest P. Chan — Market intuition, systematic trading workflow, backtesting mindset.
• Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics — Exercises for probability, statistics, distributions, covariance, regression.
• Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra — Exercises for vectors, matrices, eigenvalues, least squares, PCA foundations.

Retrospective

Fill this in during the Sunday review.

What did I finish?

What is blocked?

What confused me?

Key takeaway this week: