How stops, targets, entries and the daily budget are computed — invalidation before target.
The stop is placed against structure — a swing, a support or resistance cluster, a range boundary — never a round percentage, plus a volatility buffer scaled to the instrument’s own ATR. Targets are levels the market has already respected. Every price is rounded to the instrument’s tick.
The risk plan carries entry, stop, two targets, reward-to-risk, position size, dollar risk, and two budget lines: what this trade would consume of your daily loss cap, and what today’s realised losses have already consumed. Size is the output of the arithmetic, never an input to it.
In a measured set of cells the default ticket entry is a resting limit at the zone edge rather than the analyzed close. A zone-mode take opens as pending, not open: no position exists until a fill is seen, and a limit that expires unfilled resolves flat with no R booked.
The budget bar tracks today’s realised dollar losses against your cap — account size times your daily loss percentage. It counts realised losses only: an open position is risk, not damage. It warns as the cap approaches, and it cannot block a trade, because there is no broker connection anywhere in the product.
Strategy rules are hard caps on the grade rather than suggestions. Each rule that fires limits how high the read can score and appends a plain-sentence flag naming why. Taking a read with fired flags records the decision as an override in your journal.