Skip to content
STOP 7

Searches page titles, section headings and glossary terms.

On this page
🏷️

Tagging Framework (per-trade rules, standardized tags, auto-filters).

Step 1 — Playbook Type (mandatory)

  • Pullback in Strong Trend
  • Key Level Rejection (KLR)
  • Breakout & Impulse Move Continuation
  • Momentum Failure & Absorption

Step 2 — Stop / Target Strategy (mandatory)

  • 3to4L / 3to4S (core templates)
  • Other variations as defined
(Defines the planned R/R structure.)

Step 3 — Base Result + Psych State

(mandatory — exactly ONE of each)

Base Result

  • targethit → target achieved as planned
  • stop → stop hit as planned
  • scratch → neutral exit (time stop or flat close)
(Binary outcome: did the plan complete, yes or no?)

Psych State

  • calm → focused, no emotional interference
  • hesitant → doubt or second-guessing affected execution
  • tilted → emotional state influenced decisions
💡 Every trade must carry both a Base Result and a Psych State. This records not only what the market did, but what state I was in while executing. Together, they track system edge and operator edge.

Step 3.1 — Trigger States (optional, one max)

These tags capture what triggered the behavior, not just how it felt.
Use sparingly but consistently.
Every trade already has a Psych State.
If that state was reactive or misaligned, add one Trigger State.

Trigger States — Emotional / Cognitive Drivers

Tag
Meaning
Internal Cue
urge_to_reenter
Post-loss compulsion
“I need one back.”
dopamine_high
Overconfidence after a win
“This is easy.”
hesitation
Paralysis from prior mistake
“What if I’m wrong again?”
revenge
Frustration-driven trading
“The market owes me.”
FOMO
Chasing runaway price
“It’s moving without me.”
ego_control
Need to be right
“I can’t let this lose.”
validation_seek
Trading for self-worth
“I need this win.”

Rules

  • Tag only if behavior was meaningfully affected
  • One trigger max per trade
  • Precision > completeness
Goal: make emotional reactivity measurable and therefore improvable.

Step 4 — Refinement Tags (optional)

(Used only if relevant, on top of base result)
  • closetoosoon → exited at target, price extended ≥50% further
  • heldtoolong → ignored guardrails, increased loss risk
  • runner_potential → structure/flow supported further extension
  • runner_nopotential → target was the natural cap
(Refinement tags never override base result.)

Step 5 — Management Add-Ons (optional)

  • build → scaled in with same stop/target logic
  • stopmoved → violated stop discipline
  • chickenedout → exited early, then target hit
  • earlyentry → entered before structure confirmed
  • lateentry → chased after impulse

Step 6 — Context Filters (optional)

  • countertrend
  • fomc
  • structural_ambiguity
  • narrativeflip → session bias shifted meaningfully
Application
  • Stop taken while holding old bias → narrativeflip_loss
  • Entry aligned with new bias → narrativeflip_win
(Used to evaluate adaptability vs bias-lock.)

Core Rules

Every trade must have:
  1. Playbook Type
  1. Stop / Target Strategy
  1. Base Result
  1. Psych State
Refinements, management, and context tags are optional and used only when relevant. The objective is not description. The objective is clean data.