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The Desk: journal, pre-market plan & capstone

Journal every trade, write a checkable pre-market plan, and finish with a capstone desk review. 2 modules, each its own book, all open. The syllabus and goals are here now; lesson texts are being written from source material.

Book IDESK1 · Open

Journal, review & self-measurement

Goals

  • Turn your journal into a dataset: daily notes, placebo scoring, replay and touch drills, reviews and sample size.

Lessons

  1. The journal is a dataset · in preparation
  2. The daily note · in preparation
  3. Scoring your plan vs a placebo · in preparation
  4. Replay drill: tag before you see · in preparation
  5. Level-touch drill: log every touch · in preparation
  6. Weekly and monthly review · in preparation
  7. How many trades, and from journal lesson to tested claim · in preparation
Book IIDESK2 · Open

The pre-market plan and capstone

Goals

  • Write a checkable pre-market plan (clock, width, reference price, if-then scenarios, options layer), then score it.

Lessons

  1. Why a plan, and what it cannot do · in preparation
  2. The desk clock and the event rules · in preparation
  3. Width chips and the size decision · in preparation
  4. A reference price and areas by role · in preparation
  5. If-then scenarios with invalidation · in preparation
  6. The options layer, as context · in preparation
  7. Building the brief: how our desk does it, and how you do it · in preparation
  8. Reading a plan image · in preparation
  9. The scorecard: the plan grades itself · in preparation
  10. Capstone: ten scored plans and a review · in preparation