https://etherpoc.com/en/tags/discretion/Recent content in Discretion on FX Backtest DiaryHugoenTue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://etherpoc.com/en/posts/discretion-final/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://etherpoc.com/en/posts/discretion-final/<p>Every strategy video has the same closing line: &ldquo;in the end, it comes down to discretion&rdquo;. Show mechanically that the rules lose, and this one sentence resets the whole debate. Discretion cannot be put into words, therefore cannot be measured, therefore cannot be refuted. So the story goes.</p> <p>Does it hold? I decided discretion becomes measurable the moment you redefine it as information: the ability to select better-than-average trades out of a candidate stream. Then I measured every route that information could travel: 88 verbalizable conditions, cross-market context, the entire multi-timeframe combination space, machine learning, state-of-the-art vision AI, and my own blind-test performance.</p>https://etherpoc.com/en/posts/discretion-verify/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://etherpoc.com/en/posts/discretion-verify/<p>Since building the <a href="https://etherpoc.com/en/posts/youtube-verify/">pipeline that extracts trading rules from YouTube videos</a>, I have verified quite a few video strategies. Every time, I hit the same wall: &ldquo;<strong>the final call is discretionary</strong>.&rdquo;</p> <p>You can mechanize the setup conditions, but once the presenter says &ldquo;whether to take it comes down to experience,&rdquo; verification stops there. Discretion works as an unfalsifiable escape hatch.</p>