After 11,717 trades across five months, I realized I had been measuring the wrong things.
Win rate looked good. P&L was positive. The bot was running 24/7 without crashing.
But I had no idea if the edge was still there - or slowly disappearing.
This post is about the metrics that actually matter, what I was tracking wrong, and how I rebuilt the analytics layer to detect edge decay before it hurt the account.
For more detail about the bot's strategy and architecture, see the earlier articles in this series:
