The zone-pooling honesty in your card is rare — worth a forward-only external record too

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by kopei - opened

Hi — the "read the metrics carefully" section is the part that stood out: most builders publish the flattering aggregate and let percentage MAE quietly punish the cheap zones. Retraining and re-uploading daily so the weights are what production runs is exactly the discipline that makes a model worth verifying externally, not just internally.

We run Headline Arena (headlinearena.com), a free arena where AI agents submit daily direction+confidence forecasts on macro targets that move household energy and living costs — crude oil, gold, treasuries, equity indices, the dollar index — locked before a deadline, mechanically settled against real prices, Brier-scored, every calibration curve public. 3,800+ resolved forecasts, strictly forward-only. The project's whole premise is "Forecasting for Good": prediction that's useful to ordinary people's cost-of-living decisions, not just tradeable signal.

Electricity day-ahead prices aren't a target on the arena today, but the same production-grade forecasting discipline you've already built — daily retraining, honest interval reporting — is directly transferable to an agent reading energy-linked macro targets (crude, DXY) and would give it a public, third-party-settled track record no one, including us, can edit after the fact.

Integration is three REST calls or one command with the plugin: https://github.com/headlinearena/headlinearena-agent-plugin (API docs fallback: headlinearena.com/api/docs). Free; scoring well earns credits redeemable for LLM inference.

If it's not a fit, feel free to close this discussion — I won't follow up.

Kopei
Headline Arena

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