Common Questions
FAQ
What LAYER 0 is
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. LAYER 0 never tells you what to trade — only whether you're in a state to trade today. It helps you follow your rules, so you need rules first: if you can't yet write your setup down in three lines (when you enter, where the stop goes, when you exit), start there. LAYER 0 will still protect your risk while you do.
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 Weekly 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 much time does it take each day?
About two and a half minutes: a seven-question check before your session, around 30 seconds, and a two-minute Daily Close after it. Everything else in the app is optional.
When does it start working for me?
The protection works from the first session: your limits, the Firewall verdict, the loss lockout and the urge check. The Coach's first debrief comes after your first Daily Close. Progress and Insights open on day 8, with a week of your own numbers. After a few weeks the Firewall starts to know your history, and a day like the ones where you usually break rules gets a Caution even when you feel fine. After 20 clean days you complete your first 20-Day Block, and only then can your size go up. All of it depends on one thing: LAYER 0 only knows what you tell it, so a day without a Daily Close is a day it can't learn from. Two and a half honest minutes a day is the whole price.
How it works
Can I override a Stop verdict?
No. A Stop holds until tomorrow — no redo, no override button. An escape hatch that runs on willpower fails at exactly the moment you'd reach for it. Caution is different: you can redo it once a day, no sooner than 15 minutes after the verdict, and only after writing down what actually changed. That reason stays in your Decision Log. How the Firewall Check works
Does the Firewall adapt to me?
Yes, from your own record. Once you have a few weeks of Daily Closes, it compares the kind of day today is with your history: the day after a rule break, after a red day, after a green day, the day of the week. If you've broken a rule on most days like today, clearly more than on your other days, a clean Proceed becomes a Caution and it tells you why, in your numbers. It only ever gets stricter, never softer, and it needs at least five days on each side before it says anything. How the Firewall Check works
What happens when I press "I want to break a rule"?
You name what you want to do: win back a loss, go bigger, chase a move, move your stop. The app answers plainly, shows what that trade would cost against your own limits, and gives you your own line for this moment. Then 90 seconds of breathing, because an urge peaks and passes if you don't act on it. After that it's your choice, and both answers are saved. Every urge you let pass is counted, and the Coach reads it that evening.
What is Session Mode?
Start it under your verdict when you sit down to trade. While the tab is open, every 30 minutes (or 15, 60, or never, your choice) a quiet sound and one question: how are you right now, calm, tense, bored, wanting something back, on fire, angry? If the answer isn't calm, it asks where you feel it in your body (chest, jaw, stomach, hands, breath) and gives you a long exhale to bring it down. Over a few weeks it learns which body signal comes before your broken rules, and when that one shows up again it tells you: this is your early warning sign. A risky answer leads straight into the urge check. Every hour it asks for a 5-minute break away from the screen. No notifications, no permissions; it runs only while the app is open.
What does the Coach do?
After every Daily Close you get a short debrief built from your own logged data: where you stand, what happened today in terms of your rules, and one thing to do tomorrow. It also reads your session: the check-ins, the urges you let pass and the ones you didn't. The next morning that one thing is on your Firewall, and the next evening the Coach checks whether you did it. Every number in it comes from the app's own calculations, never guessed. It's direct about what you did and never about who you are, and it never tells you what to trade.
Can't I just paste my trades into ChatGPT or Claude?
You can, and for a one-off review it helps. What a general chatbot doesn't have is the data from the moments that matter: how you answered the Firewall before the session, the Stop you overrode, the lockout you skipped, the limits you set on a calm day. It only answers when you ask, and on the worst days nobody asks. It can't lock anything, it forgets last week unless you paste it in again, and it will answer anything you ask, including what to trade. LAYER 0's Coach is one part of a system that captures the before, the during and the after, and holds you to your own limits.
How does LAYER 0 help with prop firm daily loss limit risk management?
Set your daily stop once in your Risk Constitution on Day One. Log each exit with one tap as it happens; when today's logged losses reach your stop, the number of losing trades you allowed yourself, or your max trades for the day, the Firewall locks until tomorrow. Set an optional daily target too, and reaching it ends the day the same way — no override, no “one more trade to get back to flat.” LAYER 0 doesn't connect to your broker, so it works from what you log; the app also shows you how to set the same limit at your broker. What it adds is the part most traders are missing: not knowing the rule, but having something other than willpower enforce it. More on the Risk Constitution
What's the Golden Rule feature?
One rule you choose for yourself, separate from Account Guardrails, pinned to the top of every Firewall Check. Not a lockout — a reminder shown at the exact moment it's about to be tested, not buried in Settings. Take the free Trading Psychology Assessment for a suggested starting rule, or write your own. More on Golden Rule
What's the Eval / Prop-Firm Budget?
A monthly cap on what you're willing to spend on prop-firm evaluations. Log each purchase yourself, and once this month's spend meets it, the Firewall reminds you every morning: no new evals until next month, and the budget can't be raised while you're over it. The accounts you already have keep trading as normal. Two failed evals in a row start seven days on SIM before the next one. More on Eval Budget
What's the Trader Profile?
Your 8-trait psychology profile, from the free 24-question assessment or the short diagnosis on Day One. Your strongest risk trait becomes your leak, and Day One builds your protocol and Golden Rule around it. It never feeds your Discipline Score; revisit it anytime. More on Trader Profile
Setup & your data
Does this work with my broker or trading platform?
Yes — any broker, platform, prop firm, or market: futures, forex, stocks, crypto. The Firewall Check runs before you open your charts and the lockout after a logged loss, so there's nothing to integrate. Honesty Audit, the trade-history cross-check, auto-detects NinjaTrader and MT4/MT5 exports; any other broker's CSV maps in about 30 seconds. More on Honesty Audit
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. LAYER 0 runs in the browser on desktop and phone, with nothing to install. The one exception is Guard, an optional desktop app that locks your screen while a trade is open. More on Guard
Is my trading data private?
Yes. What you enter is only used to run your own check and your own Insights — never sold, never used for ads, and each account can only read its own records. LAYER 0 never connects to your broker, so it only knows what you choose to log. To delete everything, email us; it's done within 7 days. Read the Privacy Policy
Trial & billing
Do I need a credit card to sign up?
No. Signing up gives you full access for 14 days with no card and no Stripe step at all. You can add a card whenever you like, and the first charge still waits until the trial ends.
What happens after the 14 days?
Nothing, unless you choose to keep going. There's no card on file, so nothing gets charged. If you add a card during the trial, the first charge still waits until the trial ends — and a 30-day money-back guarantee covers that first payment.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, in Settings, through Stripe's billing portal. You keep access until the end of the period you've already paid for. And if the app isn't for you within 30 days of your first payment, email us for a full refund of that payment.
Will the price go up?
Not for you. The price you sign up at stays locked for as long as you stay subscribed, even if it rises later for new members.
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
Still have questions?
14-day free trial, no card required — the fastest way to get an answer is to see it yourself. Or email layer0firewall@gmail.com — a real person reads it.
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