Promotion bar: gate-ON expectancy above +0.15R, more than 500 gate-ON trades, and total-R positive and growing. Incumbent to beat: EUR_JPY at +0.1116R on 11,673 trades (+1,328R).

On the 1st of each month the watchlist runner refreshes candles for the four symbols and re-runs the locked-spec backtest over the full span. Results append to an immutable history. A symbol becomes a CANDIDATE only when it clears all three promotion bars two months running in spirit: expectancy above the bar, enough trades to stop being noise, and a total-R contribution that is positive and still growing. Nothing here changes the roster — that stays Braxton’s call.