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🧧 Distinguishing between reasonable pullbacks in a strategy and genuine system failure—the line that separates traders from the rest.
Any strategy with positive expectancy must, statistically, inevitably go through a period of drawdown as it adapts to the current environment.
Beginners often panic after seeing a few normal stop-losses hit, blindly overturn parameters, and ultimately miss the subsequent breakout.
Experts can clearly assess whether the current drawdown falls within a reasonable range relative to the historical maximum drawdown, and maintain iron discipline.
Intervene only when the true “safety red line” in the underlying logic is actually breached—not when you’re casually frightened off by the market’s short-term noise.