A strategy can survive many losing trades.

What it may not survive is a change in the type of losses.

Suppose a breakout model historically fails because price reverses shortly after entry.

That is normal failure for the strategy.

Then something changes.

Now losses come from thin liquidity, failed follow-through, larger gaps, and increasingly poor execution.

The loss rate may look similar.

But the failure mechanism has changed.

That distinction matters because strategy decay often appears in how trades fail before it becomes obvious in total P&L.

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The harder work is monitoring whether the market is still punishing your strategy in familiar ways.

Losses are not automatically evidence that an edge is broken.

But unfamiliar losses deserve attention.

When a strategy starts failing for reasons it was never designed to handle, the market may be telling you that the game itself has changed.