Six jobs, in the words traders already use.
Ordered the way they become necessary: the trader first, then their ideas, then the market, then money.
- The trader
- Trader Healthcheck Risk & Psychology
- Their ideas
- Trading Ideas, Strategies & Bots
- The money
- Prop Trading
Trader Healthcheck
What your own fills say about you, and what your record says you can risk.
- Median size
- share of equity, over dated fills
- Worst streak
- consecutive losses, with dates
- Supports
- fractional Kelly, from closed trades
- After a loss
- size against size after a win
- Entry hour
- hour of entry against outcome
- Detectors
- which of the 31 fired, how often
- Every figure
- carries its own denominator
- analyze_trader
- detect_patterns
- get_trade_stats
- get_equity_curve
- get_pnl_calendar
- get_trade_replay
- get_position_sizing
Then a review each week, and another each month.
Risk & Psychology
The rules you wrote in a calmer hour, held in code at two in the morning.
- Your rulesize after a stop, capped
- Set byyou, in a calmer hour
- Enforced bycode, not a model
- Releaseson the timer, or you revoke it
ErnestYou asked me to hold this one. Holding it. The timer is the only thing that lifts it.
- 01The order is not placed
- —Any way to argue with the timer
- set_trading_rules
- get_readiness_card
- get_funding_readiness
- Detectors
- 31, on the realised record
- The gate
- deterministic, checked in code
Trading Ideas, Strategies & Bots
State a thesis. Test it on your own fills. Then run it, one confirmation at a time.
- 01
- Stated in words, and dated
- 02
- Backtested on your own closed fills
- 03
- Configured: entries, size, exits
- 04
- Proposed automatically, confirmed by you
- 05
- Settled against what actually happened
- 06
- Scored: accuracy, and resolution rate
- track_hypothesis
- resolve_hypothesis
- get_hypotheses
- get_hypothesis_accuracy
- start_backtest
- create_strategy
- configure_strategy
- list_strategies
- seed_presets
Accuracy is the flattering number. The resolution rate is the other one.
Market Structure & Narratives
Why it moved, and where positioning is stretched.
ErnestFunding positive most of the day, near the top of its own range. Open interest up on flat price. A crowded long paying rent to stay there.
- 01Funding, and how long it held
- 02Open interest against price
- 03Basis and skew, same window
- get_narrative_context
- get_market_data
- get_indicators
- get_funding_oi_series
- get_payoff_chart
- get_prediction_card
- Payoff
- the shape before you take it
- Prediction
- a dated call, resolved later
- Narrative
- what moved it, not how it felt
Smart Money & Watchlists
Wallets worth watching, and conditions in plain language, watched while you sleep.
- A wallet
- an address, and what to report
- Who is
- a curated dossier on a known name
- A watchlist
- the instruments you actually hold
- A condition
- written in plain language
- A schedule
- when it may speak, and when not
- At night
- one message at most, often none
- configure_watched_wallet
- get_watched_wallet
- who_is
- add_to_watchlist
- list_watchlist
- subscribe_events
- update_schedule
Nothing is watched that you did not name.
Prop Trading
The mock costs nothing. Neither does the verdict. Challenges are failed in the final week rather than the first, which is a discipline failure and not an analysis one (Velotrade).
- A real firm's, as written
- The same one, unedited
- The firm's, on the firm's terms
- Your own, at your own size
- Your live fills, as they happen
- The attempt is over
- The same lines, marked and dated
- Anything to pay to start again
- Arrives after the fee
- Arrives before it, from your record
- Any commission from a prop firm
- start_challenge
- get_challenge_status
- get_readiness_card
One chat, and one account that stays yours.
- The account
- yours; Ernest never holds funds
- Approval
- required, on every order
- The rate
- 0.05%, flat, today
- Access
- in waves; the list is the way in