Trade Lifecycle · Evidence
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.
Stage 3 — Evidence
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.
Where it lives
Pulled from the Trade Lifecycle page so it can be linked, cited, and studied on its own. In the module's words: From pre-trade clearance to post-trade autopsy, a MARS trade passes through defined checkpoints. The lifecycle exists so no trade enters on impulse and no trade exits without leaving evidence behind.
Capture latency
The lifecycle mandates same-session capture because trade memory is the fastest-rotting input in the system: by tomorrow the MAE feels shallower, the hesitation feels shorter, and the note writes itself kindly. Capturing while the discomfort is fresh is what keeps the journal an instrument instead of a memoir.
Doctrine
Connected inside MARS
Go deeper
Deep dive — 01
No field is administrative. Each one is an input to a calculation that will be trusted later.
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Deep dive — 02
Log the profit. Flag the defect. The two are recorded separately because they are separate facts.
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Deep dive — 03
Four checkboxes. Their job is to make the gap between what happened and what got recorded visible.
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