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Account drawdown is an inevitable, mathematically necessary feature of any trading strategy with a win rate below 100%. A strategy that wins 65% of trades will still have sequences of 5, 8, or even 12 consecutive losses — statistically expected even from a perfectly performing system. The emotional pressure during these sequences is intense, and the temptation to intervene — change parameters, increase size to recover faster, or abandon the strategy entirely — is exactly the response that destroys accounts that would otherwise recover.

The key diagnostic question during any drawdown period is: has the strategy stopped working, or is the strategy in a normal losing sequence? These are fundamentally different situations that require opposite responses. A normal losing sequence requires maintaining parameters and allowing the strategy's edge to express over the next sequence of trades. A strategy that has stopped working (due to changed market conditions, broker execution changes, or parameter drift) requires pausing and diagnosing before risking more capital.

For EA traders, this distinction is actually easier to evaluate than for manual traders. The EA produces identical behavior every day — if the Goldie Sniper EA PRO is suddenly firing many more trades than normal, or significantly fewer, or at unusual times, this is a diagnostic signal that something has changed. If the trade frequency and timing look normal but the win rate has dipped temporarily, this is more consistent with a normal losing sequence that will self-correct as the statistical distribution normalizes.