Algorithm Development Lifecycle (ADL) vs Code-Bug Tax

The Algorithm Development Lifecycle (ADL) is a five-phase quality gate framework — Design, Code, Backtest, Paper Trade, Live Deploy — that every algorithmic strategy must complete before real capital is committed.

The code-bug tax is the compounding financial cost of systematic errors in a trading bot, where a miscoded rule executes incorrectly on every trade until discovered and fixed by the operator.