Branch Logic — Trend Partial
How MARS uses this
MARS is a closed loop, not a pipeline. Trades produce evidence, evidence produces weekly grades, grades move gate state, gate state feeds the throttle, and the throttle governs what the next execution is allowed to be. No stage is optional and no stage runs on memory or mood - each one reads the outputs of the stage before it.
How it benefits you
Discipline stops depending on willpower. Because every decision point consumes the previous stage's output, skipping a step becomes visible instead of invisible - and the system keeps improving itself, since every completed loop leaves the evidence base one cycle richer than it found it.
The MARS operating loop: execute, capture, score, gate, throttle, deploy - every cycle feeding evidence into the next.
Worked example
The three-layer module ecosystem: evidence flows up from the core, authority flows down the deployment rail, context validates from above.
Doctrine
Trend-regime management: break-even at 1.6R, partial banked, remainder managed with ATR-trail continuation logic (coefficient typically ×1.5 volatility-adjusted through the VIP/VDM layer). Second-highest default weight at 33.75%.
Failure pattern
Two opposite mistakes destroy this branch: coefficients too tight (a valid trend is stopped in noise) and coefficients too loose (a mature runner gives back its open profit). The Giveback and Capture Efficiency metrics in the MAE/MFE Lab exist precisely to catch which mistake you're making.
The checkpoint story
The week's quality shows in the checkpoint ladder: survival to 1R, the 1.6R trend unlock, and what happened after. Strong 1.6R conversion with weak final R means the trail is surrendering runners; weak 1.6R conversion means entries or regime selection are the problem, not the trail.
The excursion audit
04Trend Partial's whole thesis — bank some, ride the rest — is testable: the MAE/MFE lab measures how much of each trade's favorable excursion the partial-and-runner structure actually monetized. If capture ratios sag, the partial level is wrong or the runner management is leaking, and the branch gets repaired on evidence instead of debated on feel.
Doctrine
Connected inside MARS
Go deeper
Deep dive — 01
Bank some now, ride the rest. Two instruments, one ticket, two separate report cards.
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Deep dive — 02
Banking half at 1R buys a week's stability and an operator's patience. Delay it and you spend both.
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Deep dive — 03
Same setup, two branches. Structure and ATR suggest; the gate decides.
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