Risk Gate Map · The Ladder
The ladder
From the gate permission matrix: Growth (DD better than −7%) is full compounding. Recovery (−7.1% to −13%) applies a stability brake. Buffer (−13.1% to −19%) is the defense brake — no casual aggression. Floor (−19.1% to −27%) is containment. Deep-Floor (−27.1% to −34%) is suppression — survival mode. Ground-Floor sits below that, and System Lock is the boundary where deployment stops entirely.
Where it lives
This page expands one card of the Risk Gate Map page into its own reference. For orientation, the module's own framing: 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.
Brake semantics
The ladder's power is that every rung carries a behavioral meaning — full deployment, cautious expansion, defense, recovery protocol — rather than just a drawdown range. Operators don't memorize percentages; they know which behavior their capital state has authorized, which is how the map stays usable at the exact moments precision reading fails.
Doctrine
Connected inside MARS
Go deeper
Deep dive — 01
A tier ceiling caps the capital. The brake tone names the posture — and they are not the same instruction.
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Deep dive — 02
Growth permits T7. Ground-Floor permits T1. The uneven descent between them is deliberate doctrine.
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Deep dive — 03
One number, one boundary, no negotiation. Why the transition mechanism is deliberately dumb.
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