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Desk method5 minRead it like a desk
A rule captured last month is already a hypothesis
Watched records go stale on purpose, faster than a textbook. Twenty-one days, then the label changes.
FTMO told its own customers that a consistency test changed on 12 October 2026. That is the argument for a short shelf life. Watched records on this desk are marked stale 21 days after the capture. Demonstration records that exist to teach a gap, such as the old Sable 25k, carry an older date on purpose so you can see the stale label work.
Stale does not mean the rule flipped. It means we will not call the capture current. The matcher treats a stale review as a partial fit rather than a strong one. If you are about to pay, the firm’s page that morning outranks this one.