Trade Lifecycle · Management
ATR regime decides the doctrine.
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Stage 2 — Management
01ATR 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.
Where it lives
02Inside Trade Lifecycle.
Within Trade Lifecycle, this is one load-bearing idea — worth its own page. The parent module frames it this way: 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.
Doctrine selection
03The regime picks the playbook before the trade knows it exists.
Which management doctrine governs — how the BE earns, where partials sit, how the runner trails — was decided by the ATR regime and session context at clearance, not improvised mid-trade. The trade arrives into a management contract already signed, which is why two identical entries in different regimes are, correctly, two different trades.
Connected inside MARS
This module doesn't work alone.
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Operator briefs on this territory.
Deep dive — 01
The trade arrives into a management contract already signed.
The regime picked the playbook before the trade knew it existed.
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Deep dive — 02
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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Deep dive — 03
What may move while a trade is open — and what may not.
Everything permitted mid-trade reduces exposure. Nothing permitted mid-trade increases it.
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