Set the boundaries before the market starts testing them.
Confirm your maximum daily loss, review repeated rule breaks, acknowledge your trading rules, record your pre-market state, and write your plan for the day before the Live Trade Terminal becomes available.
Daily Readiness
Pre-market control panel
Live Trade Terminal
Ready
Risk, behavior, rules, readiness and plan before live trading.
Daily Readiness is the opening gate in the RulesFirst process. It puts the day's boundaries in writing before the Live Trade Terminal unlocks.
Risk
Confirm the daily loss boundary.
Behavior
Review the rule break that keeps repeating.
Rules
Read and acknowledge today's active rules.
Readiness
Record pre-market mood and energy context.
Plan
Write the trading plan before live trading begins.
Know your maximum loss before the first trade.
Where supported, RulesFirst can surface the trader's current daily loss or risk limit from a connected broker. The trader then actively confirms the amount instead of simply clicking through.
Broker-set controls and RulesFirst readiness acknowledgements are separate. RulesFirst confirms your chosen daily boundary, but does not guarantee broker-level enforcement.
Broker daily loss limit
$500
Max loss %
1.0%
Confirm today's maximum loss
Type the amount to confirm
$500
Broker limit set
I have configured my maximum daily loss with my broker.
Manual management
I manage this limit manually and acknowledge responsibility for stopping.
Demo values only. Availability of broker-provided limits depends on supported broker data.
Last 30 days
Most frequent confirmed rule break
Adding to losers
9 occurrences
Start with the mistake that keeps repeating.
RulesFirst can review recent confirmed rule-break history so the trader begins the session with the behavior that most needs attention.
Today I will
I will not increase position size once the trade moves below my original risk boundary.
The point is not motivational writing. It is a written commitment tied to a behavior that has actually repeated.
Read the rules. Check your state. Write the plan.
Daily Readiness keeps the pre-market process focused on the conditions and rules the trader has configured.
Today's rules
Pre-market mood
State
Focused
Energy
7 / 10
Pre-market state becomes session context for later review. It does not make market decisions for the trader.
Daily plan
No readiness. No Live Trade Terminal.
The required Daily Readiness steps must be completed before the Live Trade Terminal becomes available.
Daily Readiness
Live Trade Terminal
Unlocked
Readiness completion is a product gate for the RulesFirst live trading workflow.
Decisions made before the trade are harder to rewrite during the trade.
Daily Readiness creates a record of intended limits, rules and state before market pressure begins.
Before the trade
Daily Readiness
Risk boundaries, rules, mood and daily plan.
During the trade
Live Trade Terminal + Beacon
Applicable rules and risk context become part of live monitoring.
After the trade
Journal, Habits, Streaks, Replay
Review what happened against the context recorded before the session.
A realistic readiness pass before the open.
The values below are illustrative. The actual readiness screen should reflect the user's configured rules, broker support and available RulesFirst activity.
8:55 AM
Daily Readiness Complete
Broker daily loss limit
$600
Max loss %
1.2%
Most repeated rule break
Adding to losers - 7 times
Today I will
Not add below my original risk boundary.
Today's rules
Max 5 trades, $600 max loss, stop discipline enabled
Pre-market mood
Focused, energy 7 / 10
Today's plan
Trade only A/B setups. Focus on size discipline.
Live Trade Terminal
Enabled
Beacon
What you confirm before the market becomes context during the trade. Beacon monitors applicable live trading conditions and rules during the session where supported by recorded evidence.
Explore BeaconTrading Habits
Readiness context can support later behavioral review, such as whether the same rule break repeated or whether the daily plan was followed.
Explore Trading HabitsDiscipline Streaks
Daily Readiness records pre-market intent. Discipline Streaks measures rule-following consistency across trading days.
Explore Discipline StreaksRisk and enforcement boundary
Daily Readiness is a trader-defined risk acknowledgement, rule review, behavioral context and pre-market planning workflow. It does not guarantee loss limits, prevent losses, control the brokerage account, provide investment advice, decide whether the trader should trade, or guarantee discipline.