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Module 03 · Checklist

The non-negotiables for any SFZ operator

If you skip these, the rest of the learning path will not protect you.

Red flags
  • You cannot explain why the strategy still deserves capital.
  • You keep widening tolerances because the loss feels temporary.
  • You are changing rules faster than you can validate them.
Hard risk rules
  • No bot gets capital without explicit stop conditions.
  • No size increase happens without evidence from review and validation.
  • No weak strategy stays alive because of attachment or sunk cost.
Before you go live
  • Know how the strategy fails.
  • Know how the operator intervenes.
  • Know what level of damage still counts as acceptable variance.
In this lesson
  • Red flags
  • Hard risk rules
Try it — trailing stop

A trailing stop ratchets up as price rises and only ever moves in your favour. Set the trail distance and see where it would have locked in the move on this sample path.

Peak
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Exit
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Locked gain
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The page to remember

Do not let recent outcomes rewrite your risk standards.

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