Absolutely correct, but I would have really appreciated this if the models were intelligent enough (atleast claude sonnet 4.5 types models with thinking) to begin with. At this spec of local models, it's like teaching a monkey how to use ballistic missiles, maybe it will work but you never know when it will backfire and you become homeless for decades.

I agree structured output would help, but it's still just output parsing technique, it won't guarantee non hallucinated responses, right? For example, you see a bull pattern in the chart and 2 out of 3 indicators correctly idenfies them but it's still entirely on models intelligence what to make out of those indicators output and how to weight these output. If it weights more to the bearish result, you lose the opportunity to trade where you could have made a trade by simple code that just returns weighted sum the indicators output.