So when I comment on beating the benchmark or the benchmark beating me on a weekend, this is what I am talking about.

Trade on

Either way, the benchmark shows me that even if I only blindly followed my system, it still makes money over the long run. My discretion in live trading just makes me more.

How candles form as I watch often gives me a level of trust in my system that you can't see on review without making things much more complicated.

I often beat my benchmark, sometimes significantly, so obviously, I don't blindly follow my system. Why not?

The way candles form, i.e., price action, often gives me clues that fully formed candles I look at on the weekend don't.

I then compare my actual performance to my benchmark in order to gauge my performance. Did I miss trades? Did I cut out too soon? Did news matter? This gives me feedback for the next week, and suggestions for improvement.

Every weekend, I review the week and apply my system to the EU chart candle by candle to see how I should have done if I had blindly followed my system. This is my benchmark.

Wow, you really Musked that one up

With a tarrif the likes of which he has never seen

You can offically replace "Protection" with any verb indicative of abuse of power by the willfully ignorant you choose.