10 trading rules to copy (and how to know if you follow them)

"Be disciplined" isn't a rule. "No more than three trades a day" is. The difference: the second one can be checked, trade by trade, with no room for debate.

Risk rules

1. Maximum risk of 1% of capital per trade. Calculated before entry, never estimated.
2. Maximum daily loss of 2%. Once reached, the session is over.
3. Minimum 2-to-1 reward. If the target isn't worth twice the risk, no trade.
4. The stop never moves further away. It can tighten, never back off.

Behaviour rules

5. 30-minute break after two losses in a row. The most effective anti-revenge rule.
6. No more than three trades a day. Beyond that, your trades no longer come from your plan.
7. No trades 15 minutes before and after a high-impact release.

Framework rules

8. Only the pairs on your list. Gold "because it's moving" isn't in your plan if it isn't on your list.
9. Only during your session hours. Set a window, for example 9 am to noon, and stick to it.
10. No trade without a pre-trade checklist. Setup identified, stop placed, size calculated.

Less is more

Don't adopt them all at once. Start with the two or three that match your most expensive mistakes. One rule you follow beats ten you ignore.

The real problem: checking them

Writing rules is easy. Knowing whether you kept them this week, trade by trade, is much harder. In TradeDiscipline, you describe your strategy in your own words, the AI turns it into checkable rules, and every trade is judged against them: your discipline score tells you, rule by rule, where you slip.

Turn your rules into a score.