Build Your Written Trade Plan
Assemble what you have learned into a personal operating document — decided in advance, referenced in real time.
Everything you've learned comes together in a written trade plan — your scope, setups, risk boundaries, event rules, and review commitments, decided in advance and referenced in real time. Build yours below.
What a Trade Plan Does
A trade plan defines your decisions before money and emotion are involved. Written in advance, it converts your preparation into rules you can follow in real time — when pressure, noise, and the urge to improvise are highest.
Trading Scope
Define which markets, days, sessions, and time windows you are permitted to trade. Restricting scope to what you have studied reduces decisions made in conditions you have not prepared for. See Trading Sessions & Market Timing for session structure.
Approved Setups
Name and define only setups you have actually tested — in simulation or through structured review. A setup is a specific combination of conditions, not a general direction. For how to evaluate whether a setup is sound, see Market Structure & Confluence (the closest existing lesson to evaluating a trading setup).
Entry and Invalidation Rules
List the conditions that must be present before you enter, and the conditions that cancel the idea. Invalidation is not failure — it is the definition of being wrong, decided in advance. Order mechanics are covered in Order Types & Platform Safety.
Risk Boundaries
Set maximum risk per trade, maximum daily loss, maximum number of trades, and required stop conditions. These are the walls that keep a single bad sequence from becoming a damaging one. The position-risk formula and stop-distance math live in Risk Management & Position Sizing.
Event Rules
Decide whether — and for how long — you stand aside around scheduled economic releases. A clear rule prevents improvised decisions during volatility spikes. See Economic Calendar & Market Events for which releases carry the most impact.
Behavior Rules
Define what you do after a loss, after reaching the daily limit, after a technical error, and when emotionally unsettled. Behavior rules protect you from the decisions you would make when you are least equipped to make them.
Review Routine
Commit to a daily and weekly review. Review is where a plan becomes a feedback loop — confirming what worked, exposing what did not, and feeding corrections back into the next session. The 30-Day Simulator Program offers a structured review framework.
Interactive Trade Plan Builder
Build your personal operating document. Your plan stays on this device — no account required, and no one else can see it.
This material is provided for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, tax, or legal advice. Futures trading involves substantial risk and is not suitable for every trader. Trading tools, indicators, dashboards, calculators, and educational materials cannot predict future prices or guarantee profitable outcomes.
Evaluating a Setup
Learn how to turn a loosely described idea into objective rules that can be tested — context, evidence, trigger, invalidation, exclusions, version control — with a setup definition scorecard and rule ambiguity checker.
Open LessonPerformance Metrics
Learn the performance metrics that matter — win rate, expectancy, profit factor, drawdown, streaks, rule adherence, and breakdowns — with an interactive calculator that reuses your journal data.
Open LessonProp-Firm Awareness
Understand how evaluation-account rules differ from ordinary brokerage trading — static vs. trailing drawdown, daily limits, consistency rules, restrictions, fees, payouts, and rule changes — with an evaluation rule mapper and fictional drawdown scenarios.
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