Risk Constitution
The casino decides what it can lose before the doors open. On Day One, before your first Firewall Check, you sign four limits. From then on they come before any profit goal, and the app holds you to them.
A rule you can override on your worst day isn't a rule. It's a preference you haven't broken yet.
The Four Limits
Loss per trade
Found with the Comfort Loss test: the most you can lose on one trade and simply take the next one. Day One also shows what a normal losing streak costs at that size.
Daily stop
The most you lose in one day. Reach it with the losses you log and the Firewall locks until tomorrow.
Max trades
How many trades you take in a day, good day or bad.
Losing trades that end your day
After this many losing trades, you're done. The next one would be about the last ones.
And one rule for everyone: desk only. You trade at your desk with your plan open, never from your phone and never on the go. The Daily Close asks where you traded from, and a trade from your phone counts as a rule broken, even on a green day. Why it's a rule.
Optional: a daily target. The day that hurts most is often the one that started green: up early, then “a little more”, and back below zero. Set a target, log your wins and losses with their amounts, and when the day's net reaches it, the day ends the same way a stop does. You can lower it any time; raising it during your trading day isn't possible.
They Hold During the Day
Tap “I just took a loss” the moment a trade loses and enter the amount. The lockout starts, and today's logged losses count toward your daily stop and your losing-trade limit. Reach either and the Firewall locks until tomorrow. No questions, no override.
After a rule break, a skipped Post-Loss Protocol or three red days in a row, the next day is a doubt day: your loss per trade is shown at half size until two clean days follow.
Tighten Any Time. Raise Only by Earning It.
Limits can always be lowered. Loosening one after your trading day has started isn't possible: that's the exact move the limit exists to stop.
Your loss per trade and daily stop go up only through the Risk Ladder: after a completed 20-Day Mechanical Block, and by 25% at most per step. Size grows as fast as your discipline does, never faster.
Set It at Your Broker Too
LAYER 0 doesn't connect to your broker, so it guards the decision from what you log. Only your broker can physically stop an order. The app walks you through setting the same daily stop there, including Tradovate's Daily Loss Limit and the setting that stops you from raising it while you're locked, so the limit holds even on a day you skip the app.
Also Included
Trading accounts. Running more than one funded or eval account? Keep each one's daily drawdown and contract size in one place. The Firewall and the lockouts apply to your primary limits; this keeps every account's numbers visible.
Accountability partner. Opt in, and someone you trust gets a plain email when you override a Caution verdict, and on every Stop too if you choose. No P&L, no notes, just the fact and the date. Off by default.
Common Questions
Do I need a trading strategy first?
LAYER 0 helps you follow rules; it doesn't give you a strategy. Day One asks whether you have written entry rules, and if you don't yet, tells you to write your setup down first. The limits here still protect your account in the meantime.
What if I don't log a loss?
Then the app can't count it during the day; it only knows what you tell it. That's why the same stop belongs at your broker, and why the Honesty Audit checks your log against your real broker history.
Does the accountability partner see my trades?
No. One plain-fact email when you override a Caution (and on a Stop, only if you turn that on). No P&L, no trade details, ever.
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