Copper Financial Futures

The tests show no consistent, material advantage over the no-change baseline.

Model: Agentic Investor TSFM (foundation model)

Accuracy vs naive

-4%Matches the no-change baseline over 11 tests (11 tests, 3 won)

Direction

33%No clear edge over a coin flip (44 of 132 calls right in 11 tests)

Turning points

23 of 62Anticipated some turns (62 turns in 11 tests, 0 without a turn)

Error vs baseline

4% higherError ratio 1.04; 1.00 is a tie.

Tests won

3 / 11Complete rolling backtests; ties count as no win.

Test period

2015-11-01 to 2026-10-0112 observations ahead per test.

80% band coverage

81%Observed outcomes inside the band across all stored test windows.

• Band coverage uses all stored test windows, including model-selection windows when present; it does not determine the confidence label.
• Evaluated 2026-11-14 against the cached history through 2026-10-01.
• This is an evaluation of the serving model; it does not establish a winner across four model classes.