Platform — Trade Lifecycle
Every trade lives and dies inside the rails.
Layer 01 — Stage 1 — Clearance
Permission before conviction.
Before entry: confirm session and news windows, spread condition, gate state, open-exposure capacity, and branch identity. The branch — Normal, Trend Partial, Trend No-Partial, or Overflow — is selected before entry, never retro-fitted after the trade starts moving.
Layer 02 — Stage 2 — Management
ATR regime decides the doctrine.
The ATR BE Assistant classifies the environment. Normal regime: break-even at 1.4R, static 2R runner structure. Trend regime (in session): break-even at 1.6R with ATR-trail continuation logic. Coefficient selection routes through the Volatility Intelligence Panel and Distance Matrix instead of eyeballing raw ATR.
- Open trades carry Active Risk % until the stop reaches break-even — they consume pool capacity.
- Floating R is context only. It is never treated as realized evidence.
- Stop moves are recorded: reduced stop = reduced active risk; BE = zero active risk.
How MARS uses this
Every workbook in MARS belongs to one of three layers. The evidence core records and grades what actually happened; the deployment rail converts capital state into governed risk; context and validation engines judge whether the environment and the structure can be trusted. Data crosses layers on defined rails - never informally.
How it benefits you
Eleven workbooks stay one coherent machine instead of a folder of spreadsheets. You always know which layer a number came from and which layer it is allowed to influence - so evidence informs, authority governs, and experiments never contaminate live rules.
The three-layer module ecosystem: evidence flows up from the core, authority flows down the deployment rail, context validates from above.
Layer 03 — Stage 3 — Evidence
The trade isn't over when it closes.
Outcome R, hit flags (0.75R / 1.25R / 1.3R / 1.4R / 1.6R / 1.8R / 2R+), BE status, fees, MAE, MFE, duration, plan adherence, and emotional tag all enter the Journal. Capture efficiency, giveback, fee R drag, and net outcome R are computed downstream — the autopsy that makes next week smarter.
Layer 04 — Before the trigger
Clearance is a checklist, not a feeling.
A trade begins before the entry: gate state confirmed, throttle directive read, setup evidence graded, volatility distances computed, branch and management variant declared. The clearance step exists because every one of those checks is trivial when calm and reliably skipped when excited — so MARS front-loads them into a sequence that must complete before size is committed.
Layer 05 — After the close
A trade is not over until its evidence is banked.
Exit is the midpoint of the lifecycle, not the end. The close triggers capture: outcome R, MAE and MFE excursions, fees and slippage, plan-adherence flags, and the narrative note while context is fresh. That capture is what turns a finished trade into usable evidence — the raw material every downstream engine consumes. An untracked winner improves nothing; a well-documented loser improves the machine.
The governing idea
Use cases
Where it earns its place
- ▸Preventing impulse entries through hard pre-trade clearance
- ▸Consistent Normal-vs-Trend management via the ATR regime switch
- ▸Sizing fresh trades around genuinely remaining pool capacity
- ▸Building the evidence base every downstream module depends on
Inside this module
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Connected inside MARS
This module doesn't work alone.
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Operator briefs on this territory.
Deep dive — 01
Anatomy of one trade: every station between idea and evidence.
Checklist, execution, capture, exposure, reconciliation, evidence — one trade's full transit through the system.
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Deep dive — 02
The launch checklist: a memory gate, not an analysis tool.
It doesn't think — it remembers, at the exact moment you can't. And it can block but never authorize.
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Deep dive — 03
What an open trade is worth: active risk, floating R, and the zero line.
Active risk governs; floating R is context only. The breakeven event is where a trade stops costing capacity.
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