Most traders evaluate a strategy by asking whether it made money.

A better question is:

How much of that profit was available before everyone else discovered the same trade?

A signal can remain statistically valid while becoming economically weaker as adoption increases.

More participants identify it.

Entries happen earlier.

Spreads adjust.

Liquidity providers adapt.

The price begins incorporating the information faster.

This is edge crowd-out.

Nothing about the original thesis necessarily became wrong. The market simply learned to price it more efficiently.

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But lower costs cannot preserve an advantage that competitors are steadily arbitraging away.

Track not only whether a strategy remains profitable, but whether its entry advantage, post-signal movement, and net expectancy are shrinking over time.

Markets do not need to invalidate your idea to destroy its profitability.

Sometimes the most dangerous competitor is not another trader taking the opposite side.

It is everyone discovering the same edge you did.