Risk Systems
Drawdown decides which ones open. Every position MARS sizes starts from one question — where does the account stand against its peak? — and each gate sets how much risk is even allowed to exist, before any setup gets a vote.
Capital-state governance
Drag the drawdown. Watch the gate change, the tier ceiling fall and the cycle pool contract — the same arithmetic the vault door is lighting up.
A beautiful setup cannot open a locked gate. A green EV day cannot override drawdown authority. Capital state decides risk state — always.
Growth
Better than −7% · Expansion · T7 possible
Full authority. Highest tier cap. The system is compounding.
Tier ceiling
Cycle pool budget
26–32% · 6.5–8% / trade
Total risk across a four-trade concurrent cycle. The range is the Pool Budget Panel’s adaptive band for this gate.
The gate
Drawdown from Equity Peak High is not a statistic in MARS — it is a governance signal that assigns a capital-state gate. Each gate defines posture, brake tone, tier cap, and what kinds of risk expression remain permitted. A strategy can have positive EV and still be unusable if drawdown is too deep or too frequent; the gate decides whether edge may even be expressed.
The core idea
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.
In practice
The seven-tier ladder with modeled dwell: how often each tier should be in use given the gate history. High tiers exist to be rare.
The tiers
T1 through T7 define escalating cycle pool sizes and per-trade risk expressions. The tier you are allowed to use is capped by gate state — a strong branch EV cannot unlock T6 logic while the gate cap says T3. Conviction cannot raise the ceiling.
The throttle
03The Throttle Control Panel is the final deployment authority: authorized gate row, final tier, cycle pool percentage, per-trade average risk, smart exposure adjustment and the throughput directive. EV says edge exists; the gate says capital is healthy; the throttle says how much risk deploys now.
Open exposure
Many traders size the next trade as if no open risk exists. MARS refuses the fiction: if a stop has not reached break-even, that trade still burdens the account, and fresh deployment resizes around it. The Cycle Command Console keeps realized proof and active risk apart, and hands the throttle clean values.
Reference
| Module | Reads | The question |
|---|---|---|
| Risk Gate Map | Drawdown from Equity Peak High | What state is my capital in? |
| Drawdown Control | Depth and frequency, against the benchmark | Is this drawdown normal, or a warning? |
| Seven-Tier Risk Model | Gate cap, cycle pool, per-trade expression | Which tier am I allowed to use? |
| Throttle Control Panel | Six inputs, one directive | How much risk deploys now? |
| Smart Open-Exposure Logic | True remaining downside of open trades | How much capacity do open trades still consume? |
| Cycle Command Console | Cycle P&L, Daily EV status, floating R | What happened, and what exposure remains? |
Inside this module
Connected inside MARS
Go deeper
Deep dive — 01
Why 'I'll size down if it gets bad' fails, and what replacing it with arithmetic actually buys.
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Deep dive — 02
The viability floor, the fresh-trade suggestion logic, and why Smart Capacity fails gracefully.
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Deep dive — 03
When overriding Smart Capacity is legitimate, how it must be documented, and what casual use actually costs.
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Where this connects
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The Platform
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Volatility
Same market. Different weather.
Why a stop that is safe in Asia is reckless in a New York news window.
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Simulation
Your equity curve is one draw.
Read a losing month as variance or as a warning — against thousands of futures.
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Analytics Labs
Profit is the headline. The ledger is the story.
Find out whether a green week came from the edge — or from luck.
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Metrics & Diagnostics
Five gauges. One hierarchy.
Read the machine in order of authority — EV first, and nothing below overrides it.
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Diagnostics Engines
X-ray the machine.
Seven engines read what the P&L hides — before it becomes a large problem.
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Proprietary Indicators
Three tools. One rail.
Regime, confluence and continuation — on the chart, feeding the journal.
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Pricing
Four ways onto the rail.
Each tier answers a different question. Find the one you are asking right now.
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