Most trading systems don't collapse overnight.

They gradually decay.

At first, you strictly follow your trading plan—review risks before each entry, set stops precisely to decimal points, and never act without a confirmed signal. At this stage, the system is still alive.

And then? Slowly, small compromises begin. Today, out of impatience, you skip a confirmation. Tomorrow, because you're optimistic about a certain coin, you arbitrarily increase your position size. The day after, out of fear of missing out, you ignore your trading discipline.

The most terrifying part is—this process is completely imperceptible.

By the time you notice your account shrinking, win rates declining, and frequent stop-losses, the real problem has long been planted. The losses you see are just symptoms; the root cause is that your system has been off course for three months.

Signals are drowned in noise, discipline is shattered by emotions, and your original intention dissipates invisibly under the excuse of "trend adjustment."

Therefore, the smartest traders do one thing—regular system audits. Not waiting for failure to regret, but proactively sounding the alarm to detect those subtle drifts in time. Because in the market, the cost of discovering problems early is always lower than discovering them late.