What Is Pre-Trade Checklist?
Fixed questions you answer before clicking buy or sell.
A pre-trade checklist is a fixed set of yes/no questions you answer before placing risk—turning vague conviction into pass/fail gates.
Checklist beats charisma
Even strong VIP narratives fail individual gates: wrong session, stacked correlation, undefined stop, or daily loss already hit. A checklist makes 'pass' normal. TraderBots guides on structured alerts map directly to checklist lines. Fixed questions you answer before clicking buy or sell. Process terms show up in journals, not hype posts; log Pre-Trade Checklist on every taken and skipped alert for thirty samples. On TraderBots-style workflows, manual execution remains the default: Discord delivers context, you deliver discipline. Review monthly whether trades tagged with pre-trade checklist improved expectancy in R after spread; demote the tag if not. During drawdown, tighten how pre-trade checklist gates new alerts instead of increasing size to recover faster—recovery math punishes oversize rebounds. When SwitchPro charts disagree with a VIP screenshot, reconcile symbols and sessions before blaming the alert. Keep a single journal column for pre-trade checklist so skipped trades are scored alongside winners—skips often reveal filters that work.
Building yours
Start with ten items max: bias timeframe, structure, R:R after spread, size, news in 30 minutes, sleep, daily loss status. Add only after fifty trades show a repeated failure mode.
Enforcement
If any mandatory item fails, no trade—no debate. Move the item to mandatory only after it saved you twice.
Pair with glossary terms
Each glossary page should become one checklist line eventually; otherwise it is trivia.
Versioning
Date your checklist v1, v2—know which version produced which journal segment.
Failed checklist audit
Weekly list trades where you broke checklist but won—wins teach bad lessons unless logged as violations.
Social contract
Share checklist with accountability partner if needed—external check reduces impulse.
Checklist enforcement
Version your checklist and stamp journal rows with v1/v2. Weekly, list wins where checklist was broken—decide if rule was wrong or luck was loud. Share checklist with a peer if impulse entries persist. Mandatory items should fit on one screen.
FAQ
Can SwitchPro run my checklist?+
No. Checklists are behavioral; tools only supply data.
Should every alert pass the checklist?+
Only the ones you take; skipped alerts should fail at least one item on purpose.
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