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My EA's kill switch tripped after 15 cycles — should the backtest stop too?

Ran a frozen first version of a system on BTCUSDT perpetual. Still a Development run, not Validation. The halt happened during the first development segment, 1 Oct to 16 Nov 2020 UTC — later periods haven't been touched yet. Before running it I'd set two rules: halt if cumulative P&L is negative