#73- The EA Divorce: When to Break Up with a Losing Bot

You’ve been together for months. The honeymoon phase was magical: green trades, growing equity, dreams of compounding to infinity. You named it “PipMaster_v3” and bragged about it to your trader friends. Then the cracks appeared. A -12% month. Then -9%. Then flatline for 8 weeks. Stats deviated from backtest. You start wondering: “Is this just…