The trade is decided before you click.
The Trade stage follows the moment that counts: what your plan said, what the market did, what you did, and the verdict EdgeBook keeps.
One trade through the Trade stage
- 07:55. Your plan is already there. The Tactical Center opens on this week's plan: the focus, the setup you are watching, your guardrails.
- Your setup, as you wrote it. Required conditions, the trigger and what invalidates it. Supporting conditions add context, never the verdict.
- The conditions arrive one by one. 07:30 the Asia low is swept. 08:00 London opens. No high-impact news on the calendar.
- 08:42. You see it. Price is pressing structure. The trigger candle has not closed yet.
- 08:44. You go in early. Entry 1.0846, stop 1.0829, target 1.0892. The trigger candle closes above structure at 09:00.
- You log it. EdgeBook checks it once. Against the setup you defined. Not against the result, which does not exist yet.
- +2.1R. Then back to zero. The setup had no rule for a winner, so nothing told you what to do with it.
- Modified, 0.0R. The verdict stays. The trade leaves the Trade stage with its verdict and its evidence. Review and Learn take it from here.
Three verdicts. Each one has a reason.
When you log a trade against a setup, EdgeBook checks it once, from the conditions and the execution you report. Never from the profit or the loss.
Exact
- Every required condition met
- No hard invalidation active
- Trigger followed, or none defined
You traded the setup you wrote down.
Modified
- Every required condition met
- No hard invalidation active
- Trigger or execution deviated
The setup was valid. How you took it was not the plan, like entering before the trigger candle closed.
Outside
- A required condition missing
- or a hard invalidation already active
This was not your setup. The trade may still win; the verdict does not change.
A verdict that does not move.
Checked once, when you save.
The verdict and the evidence behind it are stored with the trade. Every screen reads that stored verdict; nothing recalculates it later.
The outcome never decides.
A winner can be Outside. A loser can be Exact. Supporting conditions, like a higher-timeframe trend, add context but never decide either.
Change your setup, keep your history.
When you refine a setup, past trades keep the verdict they got against the setup as it was then.
Your plan is in front of you.
The Tactical Center opens on this week's plan: your focus, the setups you are watching and your guardrails, before the market opens.
The Trade stage today.
Live now
- Tactical Center with this week's plan
- Log trade against a Playbook setup
- Exact, modified, outside matching
- Unclassified when evidence is missing
Coming
- Decision lock for live trades
- Broker import (MT4 / MT5)