From 3f9cb33be0ff7a46672587e8eb12fc752fa961af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emil Lerch <emil@lerch.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:18:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] snap performance for weekly returns

---
 src/analytics/performance.zig | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/analytics/performance.zig b/src/analytics/performance.zig
index 1324ce3..cb0db55 100644
--- a/src/analytics/performance.zig
+++ b/src/analytics/performance.zig
@@ -487,15 +487,33 @@ pub fn formatReturn(buf: []u8, value: f64) []const u8 {
 
 /// Compute 1-week return from candle data: (latest_close / close_7_days_ago) - 1.
 /// Candles must be sorted by date ascending.
+///
+/// Bounded by `max_snap_days`, same as `findNearestCandle`. The backward scan used
+/// to be unbounded with a comment asserting "at most ~10 steps for daily candles"
+/// - an assumption about the data, not a constraint on the code. A hole in the
+/// candle cache therefore turned this into a month's return still labelled "Week",
+/// silently and with no way to tell from the output. That is exactly the failure
+/// `max_snap_days` was introduced to prevent ("Beyond this, the data is likely
+/// missing and the result would be misleading"); this function simply never
+/// applied it.
+///
+/// Real caches do have holes: a snapshot taken 2026-08-29 carried
+/// `stale_count:num:3`, with three symbols a full day behind their peers.
+///
+/// Returns null rather than a wrong number, so the caller renders "--" and the
+/// gap is visible instead of plausible.
 pub fn weekReturn(candles: []const Candle) ?f64 {
     if (candles.len < 2) return null;
     const latest = candles[candles.len - 1];
     const target_date = latest.date.addDays(-7);
 
-    // Linear scan backward (at most ~10 steps for daily candles)
     var i: usize = candles.len - 2;
     while (true) {
         if (candles[i].date.days <= target_date.days) {
+            // How far BEFORE the target we landed. A weekend or holiday puts the
+            // nearest bar a few days early, which is normal and fine; a cache hole
+            // puts it weeks early, which is not a week's return.
+            if (target_date.days - candles[i].date.days > max_snap_days) return null;
             if (candles[i].close == 0) return null;
             return (latest.close / candles[i].close) - 1.0;
         }
@@ -543,6 +561,33 @@ test "weekReturn snaps to nearest trading day" {
     try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 0.1667), r, 0.001);
 }
 
+test "weekReturn refuses a gap wider than max_snap_days" {
+    // A hole in the candle cache. Latest is Feb 10; 7 days back is Feb 3, but the
+    // previous bar is Jan 1 - forty days earlier. The old unbounded scan happily
+    // returned (105/90 - 1) = +16.67% and labelled it "Week".
+    const holed = [_]Candle{
+        .{ .date = Date.fromYmd(2024, 1, 1), .open = 90, .high = 90, .low = 90, .close = 90, .adj_close = 90, .volume = 0 },
+        .{ .date = Date.fromYmd(2024, 2, 10), .open = 105, .high = 105, .low = 105, .close = 105, .adj_close = 105, .volume = 0 },
+    };
+    try std.testing.expect(weekReturn(&holed) == null);
+
+    // The boundary is inclusive and generous enough for a holiday week: landing
+    // exactly `max_snap_days` before the target still counts. Target is Jan 21 - 7
+    // = Jan 14; Jan 4 is 10 days before that.
+    const at_limit = [_]Candle{
+        .{ .date = Date.fromYmd(2024, 1, 4), .open = 90, .high = 90, .low = 90, .close = 90, .adj_close = 90, .volume = 0 },
+        .{ .date = Date.fromYmd(2024, 1, 21), .open = 99, .high = 99, .low = 99, .close = 99, .adj_close = 99, .volume = 0 },
+    };
+    try std.testing.expectApproxEqAbs(@as(f64, 0.10), weekReturn(&at_limit).?, 0.001);
+
+    // One day past it is refused, so the cutoff is actually enforced rather than
+    // merely present.
+    const past_limit = [_]Candle{
+        .{ .date = Date.fromYmd(2024, 1, 3), .open = 90, .high = 90, .low = 90, .close = 90, .adj_close = 90, .volume = 0 },
+        .{ .date = Date.fromYmd(2024, 1, 21), .open = 99, .high = 99, .low = 99, .close = 99, .adj_close = 99, .volume = 0 },
+    };
+    try std.testing.expect(weekReturn(&past_limit) == null);
+}
 test "weekReturn zero close returns null" {
     const candles = [_]Candle{
         .{ .date = Date.fromYmd(2024, 1, 1), .open = 0, .high = 0, .low = 0, .close = 0, .adj_close = 0, .volume = 0 },