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name: User wants to ride out drawdowns, not pause on bad days
description: On losing streaks the user intends to hold the line, not hit the kill switch — reinforce discipline rather than reflexively offer exits
type: feedback
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When the Kalshi/soccer strategy is in a cold streak, the user's intent is to **ride it out**, not pause. Stated 2026-05-30 during a 2-of-15 losing run ("I need to learn to ride these out if we're gonna be successful").

**Why:** It's a longshot, ~24–27% WR strategy whose entire edge lives in rare 3–5× wins. Pausing during drawdowns risks being out of seat when the carrying wins land. The user has consciously decided emotional discipline through variance is a prerequisite for the strategy working, and pushed back earlier on me being more confident than warranted — so they don't want cheerleading *or* repeated off-ramps.

**How to apply:**
- On bad nights, do NOT reflexively offer the kill switch / pause / narrow-scope menu. The user already knows those exist. Lead with grounded perspective, not exits.
- Stay honest about whether a streak is variance vs possible edge-decay (don't sugarcoat — they dislike overconfidence), but frame around holding the line.
- The healthy version of "ride it out" is a **pre-agreed rule-based tripwire** (e.g. rolling 60-bet window negative and stays there N bets) decided in calm, not an emotional call mid-streak. Reinforce rule-following over feeling-fighting.
- Only surface a pause if the data genuinely suggests structural breakage (longer windows rolling/staying negative), not on ordinary cold runs.
- **Don't suggest league-level cuts until ~100 bets in that league** (stated 2026-05-30 re: EPL/E0, which is the worst league at −65% ROI but only n=19). User applies the same sample-size skepticism to per-league decisions as to the whole strategy — 19 bets isn't enough to cut, even when it looks structurally bad. Re-raise EPL only as it approaches n≈100.