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We let a profitable breakout strategy flip a coin for direction. It kept making money.
A controlled experiment on a daily gold breakout strategy, 2021-2026, 400 backtests. Random entries with good management break even. The strategy's own timing with a coin-flip direction is profitable in 100 of 100 seeds. Turn management off and every run on real ticks loses. Where the profit of a breakout system actually sits, with a backtest-only EA to repeat it.