u/fjemini

The thing that kept breaching my funded accounts wasn't strategy. It was the first 15 minutes.
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The thing that kept breaching my funded accounts wasn't strategy. It was the first 15 minutes.

I trade futures on funded accounts, and the pattern that kept killing my evals was always the same. Clean plan the night before, then the open hits and I freelance. Move my stop, chase an entry I never marked, size up to claw back a red morning. My rules were fine. I wasn't following them.

The single thing that helped most was writing down the exact price that makes the trade wrong before I click, and actually stepping aside when it hits instead of widening it. Sounds obvious. Doing it at 9:30 with real money on a funded account is another story.

So I built a tool for my own prep. I save my strategy once, drop a chart screenshot, and get back a structured read in my own rules: directional bias, key levels, an if-then setup, and the exact invalidation price. On a funded account that last line is the whole point. It's what keeps a bad morning from becoming a breach.

Honest about what it is: not a signal service, doesn't predict price, doesn't place trades. It reads the chart you give it in the rules you give it, and on unclear mornings it says neutral. You still make every call.

It's free to try, 3 reads, no card, if anyone wants to poke at it. And as a founder and someone that's pretty new into building, feedback from people trading funded accounts or live accounts is very helpful and every piece of advice or suggestions, frustrations help. Try to break it and tell me where the read is off, or what a prop trader needs it to catch that it doesn't.

u/fjemini — 6 hours ago

How I build my pre-market bias before the open (my full routine)

I've been trading futures for a few years, and the biggest leak I had wasn't entries or exits. It was the gap between what I planned the night before and the version of me that showed up at 9:28, caffeinated, slightly impatient, and suddenly unsure of everything. I'd do solid prep, then completely freestyle the open, and wonder why my journal looked like two different people were trading.

Eventually I got strict about one rule: no morning trade unless I've written my bias before the bell. Here's the routine I use now, in case it helps anyone dealing with the same thing.

  1. Only mark the levels that actually matter. Overnight high/low, prior day high/low, and obvious liquidity (equal highs/lows, places where stops are clearly sitting). I'm not drawing a bunch of extra lines anymore. Just the levels price is actually likely to react to or run.
  2. Decide the direction, then define what proves you wrong. This part changed things for me. Saying "I'm bullish" is easy. Saying "I'm bullish as long as we hold X, and I'm wrong if we close below it" is what actually matters. If you can't point to the price level that invalidates your idea, it's not really a bias, it's just a feeling.
  3. Think in conditions, not predictions. More like: "If this happens, then I do this." Example: if price sweeps the overnight low and reclaims it, I'll look long toward the prior day high, stop under the sweep. The market doesn't have to give anything, it's just about being ready if it does.
  4. Keep the format identical every day. Now this is gonna sound boring, but it helps more than anything else. Same structure every morning means I'm comparing like for like instead of reinventing my process depending on mood or sleep or caffeine level.

That's pretty much it. Curious how other people build their pre-market read, and whether writing the invalidation first feels like overkill or just basic discipline in disguise.

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