Routine · The Thread

Profitability is a routine you execute, not an insight you have. Tick the boxes — they persist in this browser and reset each day.

Weekend · 45 min

Set the week

Monthly, weekly and daily charts on each pair. Mark the dealing range you are measuring from, and the equilibrium of it.
For each pair, write one sentence: which half of the matrix am I shopping from next week, and why.
Mark the external range liquidity — the old high and old low the week is likely reaching for.
Note the days that carry event risk. You are not trading the news; you are avoiding being surprised by it.

Daily · 20–30 min

The bias check

Has the daily closed in a way that changes the bias you wrote at the weekend? If not, nothing to do.
Is price in premium or discount of the range you defined? If it is at equilibrium, you have no trade.
If price has reached a discount array and you are bullish: is there a 4H array to work a limit order at?
Can you frame 3:1 to the external liquidity you named? If not — no trade, and log that as a completed day.
BIAS IS NONE → close the laptop. This is the highest-value habit in the system.

On a fill

Manage, do not improve

The stop goes where you wrote it. Never move a stop away from entry — ever.
Partial at the first opposing array; the remainder runs to the external liquidity you named.
You are holding for days. Intraday noise against you is not information.

Friday · 20 min

The weekly review

Trades taken vs. skipped-by-rule vs. missed. These are three different things and only one of them is a problem.
Rule violations first. If there were any, that is the week's only finding — fix the process before you look at P&L.
Cumulative R and expectancy over the last 20 trades. Win rate is deliberately not the headline.

06:00 GMT

Read the bias

Daily bias from the HTF work. If NONE → close the laptop. A logged no-trade day is a completed, successful day.
Mark the Asian range (00:00–05:00 GMT). Its extremes are today's stop pools.

07:00–09:00 GMT

London killzone — the only primary window

Watch for the Judas swing: the move opposite the intended daily direction that takes the nearby pool.
Place the limit exactly as planned. Do not improve the entry.
Stop beyond the array. 3:1 minimum to the objective, or no trade.

11:00 GMT

Cancel

Unfilled orders are cancelled. The setup expired; it did not get better.

12:00–15:00 GMT

New York

Continuation only, and only if the London leg is already working. Not a second attempt at a fresh idea.

16:00 / 18:00 GMT

Partial, then flat

Partial at 16:00 if the objective has not been hit. Hard flat by 18:00 regardless.

End of day · 5 min

Journal

Result in R. Tag RULE-COMPLIANT or VIOLATION. A violation is a worse outcome than a loss.

Hard limits — the same in both modes

Risk per trade while learning	0.25 – 0.50 %
Ceiling, ever	1.0 %
Daily stop	−1 % → stop for the day
Weekly stop	−3 % → stop for the week
Monthly stop	−6 % → stop and review
After a loss	halve risk until it is recouped
Minimum reward	3 : 1 — below it, sidelines

These come from your own material — 0.25–0.50% while learning and the halving rule from Sniper Course, Escape & Evasion; the 3:1 minimum and “5 losing trades in a row is inevitable” from Risk Management. The 1.0% ceiling is lower than your library permits, deliberately. M13 works through all of it.

The routine