Throttle Control Panel — Inputs & Authority
Six inputs, one directive.
Read this first
The input stack
01What the throttle consumes.
Each input has a fixed role and a fixed rank:
- Gate Drawdown State — the capital-state row; the input no other input can outrank.
- Daily EV Status — tactical evidence from the console's closed trades.
- Cycle P&L Direction — the current cycle's realized trajectory.
- Open exposure metrics — Active Open Risk %, carryover trades, floating R as context.
- Weekly SDE permissions — structural context, never above the gate cap.
- Manual override mode — the logged exception layer, off by default.
The hierarchy
02Evidence informs. The gate governs.
A favorable Daily EV cannot outrank the gate — tactical evidence never redefines drawdown authority. SDE optimism cannot raise the gate cap. The ordering is the point: EV says edge exists; the gate says capital is healthy; the throttle says how much deploys now.
The output
03One directive, fully specified.
From six inputs the panel produces the authorized gate row, final tier, cycle pool percentage, per-trade average risk, smart exposure adjustment, effective fresh deployment, and the final throughput directive — everything the next cycle needs, nothing left to mood.
Input integrity
04Six inputs, each with a freshness check.
The directive is only as honest as its inputs, so each of the six carries validation: gate state must match the console handoff, open-risk must reconcile against live positions, and a stale Daily EV status blocks the run. A throttle fed yesterday's numbers produces today's overexposure — the freshness gate is the quiet hero of the panel.
How MARS uses this
Drawdown from Equity Peak High routes the account into a gate. The gate then selects the throttle row, caps the maximum risk tier, sets the brake tone, and constrains which management variants are even permitted. Every deployment decision starts by reading this ladder - a good setup cannot override a restricted gate.
How it benefits you
The question 'should I be trading full size right now?' gets an exact answer instead of a mood. Risk compresses automatically as damage grows and re-expands only as capital heals - protecting accumulated gains, not just starting capital, without requiring willpower in the moment.
The seven-gate capital ladder. Each state carries its own brake meaning, tier cap, and risk authority - the marker shows an account operating in Growth.
Worked example
Before any fresh trade, MARS subtracts summed live stop-distance from the gate-authorized pool and converts the remainder into a concrete directive: how many trades, at what per-trade risk. The arithmetic runs while the operator is calm; under pressure the panel is obeyed, not renegotiated.
The exposure-pressure chain: authorized pool, minus live open risk, equals fresh capacity - resolved into one deployment directive.
Connected inside MARS
This module doesn't work alone.
Go deeper
Operator briefs on this territory.
Deep dive — 01
Every layer can lower the tier. Only some are allowed to raise it.
Demotion is available to everything. Promotion is a privilege, and the gate does not have it.
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Deep dive — 02
The input that updates most often is trusted least, and that is not an accident.
Ranked by update frequency and ranked by authority, the inputs come out in opposite orders.
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Deep dive — 03
A renamed dropdown entry can silently disconnect the engine from its own doctrine.
The label is not a caption. It is the key a lookup matches on, and a typo returns a different tier.
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Every module ships in the complete MARS package.
One price. Eleven workbooks, three TradingView indicators, and the full manual library — $497.