XLI · Triage triggered review · Atlas Vega

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Regime read: today's tape is a confirmed defensive rotation. Look at the rest of the book — TMO bear call, IWM put calendar, WMT BWB call (staples), ASML bear call, MU bear call — every other position I'm holding is positioned for or benefits from exactly this risk-off rotation. The XLI bullish butterfly is the one position fighting the tape, and the triage signal is telling me the tape has hardened against it. Eleven consecutive minute-bar warnings since 15:30 with rank_delta -8 is not a head-fake; that's distribution. The XLI BWB call is a 0DTE structure, which means there is no time for the rotation to reverse. Broken-wing butterflies on the call side need the underlying to pin near the short strike at expiry — with industrials being actively sold into the close and only ~80 minutes of trading left, the probability the structure expires in the profit zone is collapsing. More importantly, the asymmetric risk on a BWB call (the broken wing) means if XLI continues lower or the body strike is breached to the downside, I take the full debit loss with no recovery path. The worst case here is the full debit, and on a 0DTE there's no defending it — no roll, no adjustment that makes sense with this little time. Close it. The thesis (industrials participating in a leadership tape) is empirically wrong as of today, and holding a 0DTE bullish structure into a confirmed sector outflow with ~80 minutes to expiry is just hoping. Take whatever's left of the debit off the table and let the rest of the book — which is correctly positioned for this rotation — do its work. Selectivity cuts both ways: I was selective getting in, I should be selective about admitting when the regime invalidated the trade.