Switching

What this section covers

Once a reader is signed in and doing something, moving to another of the WTN market links stops being free. Nothing that has been saved is at risk, but the visit itself does not travel, and anything half finished lives in the visit rather than in the market.

These studies draw that line precisely, because it is sharp, it is easy to state, and almost nobody states it. The reassuring half and the warning half are usually delivered separately by different pages, which leaves readers either too anxious or too casual.

1. What carries when you switch mid visitEverything the market has been told about, and nothing else.
2. What is dropped the moment you switchA short list, and everything on it lives on your screen rather than in the market.
3. Switching while an order is half writtenPlaced is safe and half entered is not, and the gap between them is one click wide.
4. Switching while a message is half typedThe commonest way to lose real work to a change of route.
5. Problems switching will not fixA short list of things a different route cannot help with, and why people try it anyway.
6. Two routes open in two tabsA useful arrangement that manufactures most of the confusion in the divergence section.
7. The moments where switching is the right moveThree cases where it is correct, two where it is harmless, and three where it is a reflex.
8. The cost of switching, counted honestlyWhat a move actually costs, itemised, so it can be compared with what it buys.

The line in one sentence

Anything the market has been told about survives a switch. Anything you have only typed does not. Everything in this section follows from that, including the timing advice, the two tab problem and the list of things switching will not fix.