ProductPlaybook

Rules you can put a price on.

Write each setup as a checklist, tick it while you trade, and your results split in two: what you made when you followed it, and what you lost when you didn't. It is the most persuasive number in trading, and it is yours.

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Playbooks with their trades, net P&L, rules followed and the cost of breaking them

Followed against broken

The cost of breaking your own rules, to the dollar.

“Stick to the plan” is advice. A figure on the screen — what the off-plan trades cost you this quarter — is a reason. Every playbook shows both sides: the trades that followed it and the ones that didn't.

Net P&L, win rate, profit factor and expectancy for each playbook.
The share of rules you actually tick, trade by trade.
An equity curve that marks each trade as followed, broken or not checked.

A playbook's page: its rules, results and equity curve marked followed and broken

Rule by rule

Find the one rule that carries the setup.

Each rule gets its own line: the average trade when it was met, against when it wasn't. Some rules turn out to be the whole edge. Others are superstition, and you can stop checking them.

Impact shown only when both sides have enough trades to mean something.
The criteria you skip most, in order.
Required and optional rules, grouped the way you think about the setup.

Decision against outcome: followed and won, broke and won, followed and lost, broke and lost

Templates

Start from a setup traders already use.

Liquidity sweeps, order-block retests, fair-value-gap reversals, the Silver Bullet, session breakouts — written as checklists you can rewrite in your own words. Nothing is saved until you make it yours.

Limits too: the most trades a day, and the sessions the setup is allowed in.
The same playbook in backtest and live, side by side.

A library of playbooks as cards: AMD model, Asian range breakout, break of structure retest and more

The details

A checklist that keeps score.

Ticked at entryThe checklist sits in the trade form, so it's answered while you still don't know the outcome.

Session and daily limitsA trade outside the allowed sessions, or over the daily cap, is flagged on its own.

Missed tradesLog the setups you saw and didn't take — the hesitation has a price too.

Notes per playbookYour own notes on the setup: the textbook example, and what you keep getting wrong.

Live and backtestTested results and traded results for the same rules, never mixed.

On the free planPlaybooks and rule tracking need no subscription.

Questions

About playbooks.

Do I have to tick the checklist on every trade?

No. Trades you don't check are shown as not checked, and they stay out of the followed-against-broken comparison instead of skewing it.

Can I use a playbook in backtests?

Yes. Tag backtest trades with the playbook and its page shows the tested and the live results side by side.

What if my setup isn't in the templates?

Start blank: name it, write the rules you actually check, mark which are required, and set its limits.

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