Daily, weekly and monthly stopping rules, plus the personal conditions under which you should not trade at all.
Key takeaways
- Layered stops — daily, weekly, monthly — prevent one bad period compounding.
- Sleep, illness and personal stress measurably degrade decisions.
- Stopping is a strategy decision, not an admission of failure.
Professional risk management is layered. A daily stop caps one session. A weekly stop — often two or three times the daily figure — caps a bad week. A monthly review trigger, typically a defined percentage drawdown, forces a pause and an analysis rather than a continued grind.
Personal conditions deserve equal weight. Poor sleep, illness, a family crisis or a major life change all reduce the executive function that rule-following requires. Trading through them is not toughness; it is an unnecessary experiment.
Define the conditions in advance and write them down. 'I do not trade on fewer than five hours of sleep' is a rule that can be followed. 'I will be careful when tired' is not.
Restarting should also be rule-based: a smaller size for a defined number of sessions, then back to normal if adherence holds. Structure on the way back matters as much as structure on the way out.
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