The Trap of Stale Docs: How I Almost Rewrote a "Rejected" Trading Strategy I Found in an Old Book

Hey, it's ya boi, the developer dad. I'm 38, an engineer at an IT company in Tokyo by day, and a humble builder of AI-driven trading bots by night. My dev time usually kicks off around 10 PM, right after the kids are tucked in. This particular evening, I was doing my usual thing, tweaking an FX bot that's been in operation. The next item on my task list: refining the exit strategy (take profit/stop loss rules). I had a promising idea brewing, so I opened up my dev docs. I have a file called…