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Built by a trader who almost lost everything to undisciplined trading
LAYER 0Pre-Trade Firewall for Prop Firm & Independent Traders
A web app that stops a bad trade before it happens — and shows you why you almost made it.
7-day free trial · No card required · Your trading data stays private
The process
How it works
Check
Answer 7 questions before you open a chart. Mood, sleep, recent losses, revenge impulse, overconfidence after a win — the real variables.
Verdict
The app returns one of three verdicts: Proceed, Caution, or Stop. Not a suggestion — a gate.
Trade — or don't
A Stop verdict locks you out. A Proceed verdict clears you. Either way, the decision was made before the market opened.
Log & Review
Journal the session, and the Tracker, Discipline Score, and Pattern & P&L Insights turn today into evidence for tomorrow. The gate is where it starts — not where it ends.
Every NO is a risk flag.
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Chasing fast money is chasing wind — it moves further away the harder you grab for it.
Founding Member pricing through August 31, 2026 — locked in for as long as you stay subscribed, even after the price goes up for new members.
Monthly
$0 for 7 days
No card required
Then $9.99/mo — locked in for life as a Founding Member
Regular price $14.99/mo from Sept 1
One saved eval covers months of this.
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Annual
$0 for 7 days
No card required
Then $99/yr — locked in for life as a Founding Member
Regular price $149/yr from Sept 1
$9.99/mo × 12 = $119.88 paying monthly
One saved eval pays for the whole year.
No commitment · Cancel anytime · 30-day money-back guarantee
One saved eval pays for a year.
7-day free trial on all plans, no card required · add a card only if you want to keep going after. Price rises to $14.99/mo · $149/yr for new members starting September 1, 2026 — Founding Members keep today's price for as long as they stay subscribed.
Your strategy isn't the problem. Your state is.
Overtrading
Revenge trades
Self-inflicted losses
Most trading damage doesn't start with a bad setup — it starts with a bad state, one that's already active long before it shows up on the account.
“Stop being the gambler in the casino. Become the owner of the casino.”
7 questions. One verdict. No negotiating.
Sleep, mood, revenge impulse, overconfidence after a win — the app asks before you open a chart, and returns one of three verdicts: Proceed, Caution, or Stop.
This is what Stop looks like — from the checklist in the manual, Appendix A, Daily Decision Framework.
What happens next in the app:
- ●Trading is locked — overriding requires a deliberate 10-second confirmation
- ●A 20-minute cooldown period begins
- ●The decision is logged with a timestamp
- ●Your discipline streak continues — you didn't break it
Free to start · $9.99/mo Founding Member price · Annual includes PDF bundle
Live Now
PDF teaches. The app enforces.
The manual gives you the system. The app runs it every day — and shows you the pattern you can't see from inside a losing streak.
The Firewall — Interruption
A mandatory gate before every session, a 20-minute lockout after every loss, guardrails that lock the moment you hit your limit. It stops the damage before — or right after — it starts.
The Mirror — Understanding
Daily Close, The Week Close, Pattern & P&L Insights, Honesty Audit, and Growth Path build a verified picture of exactly where and when you become your own biggest risk — checked against your real trade history, not just what you remembered to log.
Neither half works alone. Why LAYER 0 is built as two systems, not one →
Firewall also includes Account Guardrails — a hard daily loss limit, no override.
Mirror also includes Decision Memory, Daily Close, The Week Close, Honesty Audit, and an optional Commitment Contract that stakes real money on your own discipline — skip it and everything else works the same.
Live in the App Today
Discipline Score — One Number, Never P&L
Built from process, consistency, and firewall respect. Colored red-to-green by tier, downloadable, and shareable straight from the Tracker — not a mockup, this is the app's real output.
Illustrative sample scores — the real card generates from your own data.
New — Live in the App Today
Growth Path — Gambler to Casino Owner
Five stages, gated on process — never P&L. A real progress path, not another P&L number, with a shareable stage card at every step.
Illustrative sample — the real card generates from your own stage and streak.
Pattern Mirror
What actually happens on the days you don't follow the plan
Most common trigger: Desperation — needed it back
Risk Signals
What tends to be true before it goes wrong — not after
On days you flagged financial pressure, your violation rate was 61% — vs 12% otherwise.
Based on 9 flagged days vs 34 clear days.
The day after a logged loss, your violation rate was 47% — vs 9% otherwise.
Based on 11 days after a loss vs 41 other days.
This Is What Seeing Yourself Clearly Looks Like
Illustrative sample — every number here only appears once you have enough real history behind it. No pattern shown from luck.
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Trading Decision Firewall
Certificate of Discipline
12-Day Honest Log Streak
Process over profit.
Not P&L. Not win rate.
layer0firewall.com
Illustrative sample — download or share your real certificate once you're logging in the app.
Free to start · $9.99/mo Founding Member price · Annual includes PDF bundle
Why this exists
I built this because I needed it — and didn't have it. As a new trader with too much access and too little experience, it nearly cost me six figures, and very nearly my family. This system is what I wish had stood between me and the market on the days I was the biggest risk in the room.
— Peter G., trader & founder of LAYER 0
Who It's For
Not for
- —Gamblers who need stimulation
- —Traders who want certainty
- —People who equate activity with productivity
- —People who want more trades, not better decisions
For
- +Traders who want friction between impulse and action
- +Who want to protect what their technical work builds
- +Who want to become interruptible
- +Who are done relying on willpower that's already failed them, more than once
From the Blog
Trading psychology and discipline — for prop firm and independent traders who've been there.
Relapse Risk
The Relapse Window
The relapse doesn't happen during the bad stretch. It happens right after you start feeling like yourself again — the exact moment you stop doing the thing that got you there.
Consistency Rule
The Prop Firm Consistency Rule
Most prop firms cap how much of your total profit one single day can account for. Almost nobody reads that clause until their best day accidentally breaks it.
Rules vs. Preferences
You Don't Have a Rule, You Have a Preference
Most traders who say "I follow my rules" have never actually been tested. Here's the real difference between a rule and a preference, and why you don't find out which one you have until it's too late.
Averaging Down
"You'll Get It Back"
Averaging down on a loser doesn't feel like tilt while it's happening. It feels like conviction. Here's the actual mechanism that makes "add more, you'll get it back" so hard to stop mid-trade.
FAQ
What's the actual goal of LAYER 0?
To move you, step by step, from reactive gambler to calm, rule-following casino owner — deciding before the trade, not during it, accepting a loss without needing to win it back, until discipline stops being effort and becomes default. The app measures your progress through this the same way it measures everything else: process, not P&L.
Is this a trading strategy?
No. No setups, entries, exits, indicators, or signals.
How is this different from a trading journal?
A standalone journal only records what already happened. LAYER 0 includes a journal too — closed out daily (Daily Close) and weekly (The Week Close) — but adds what a journal alone can't: a verdict before the trade, not just a review after it.
What if I've already tried everything and failed?
Then you've probably been trying to fix this with willpower alone. This isn't more willpower. It's structure that holds when willpower doesn't — a different tool for a different problem.
How does LAYER 0 help with prop firm daily loss limit risk management?
Set your daily max drawdown once in Account Guardrails, and the app locks the Firewall the moment you hit it — no override, no “one more trade to get back to flat.” That's the risk management layer most traders are missing: not knowing the rule, but having something other than willpower enforce it in the moment.
Do I need a credit card to sign up?
No. Signing up gives you full access for 7 days with no card and no Stripe step at all. If you want to keep going after that, that's when a payment method comes up — not before.
Does this work with my broker or trading platform?
The Firewall Check and Post-Loss Lockout work regardless of platform or broker — they gate you before you open your charts, so there's nothing to integrate. Honesty Audit, the trade-history cross-check, currently supports NinjaTrader exports specifically; more platforms are planned.
Is there also a written manual?
Yes — a 28-page PDF (the Core Manual) plus a printable Execution Pack. Included free with the Annual plan, or buy it standalone if you just want the manual. See what's inside →