The non-negotiables for any SFZ operator
If you skip these, the rest of the learning path will not protect you.
- Do not let recent outcomes rewrite your risk standards.
- Do not deploy anything you are not prepared to stop.
- Do not trade a strategy you cannot explain under pressure.
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.