I got 5–10 stops in a row
What to do now
Before changing anything, check whether this length of streak is normal for your win rate. Use the calculator below.
A series of stops without a single win between them.
Protocol
- Check the streak length against the calculator.
- After 3 stops in a row: 30 minutes without trading.
- If you suspect the strategy is broken, test it on a fixed number of trades, not on the last five.
Checklist before the next trade
Is this streak normal?
Why this happens and what is dangerous
Wins and losses are mixed randomly. With a win rate under 50% long runs of losses are not an exception but a certainty over enough trades.
The danger is not the streak, it is the reaction: dropping a working system after bad luck, raising size to recover, or freezing. A series of 7 losses does not by itself prove that the strategy has stopped working.
Short statements for this situation
- A streak of stops is part of the distribution.
- One result says nothing about the quality of my strategy.
- I judge the system on many trades.
- I keep my risk standard, especially now.
- I follow the process until the sample says otherwise.
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This is a practical protocol for trading behavior, not medical advice or treatment, and not a promise of profit.