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The MAKETZO Trading Operating System

Your whole trading system, on one page.

Keep your mistakes small enough to learn from. The whole MAKETZO system on one page, free to read, save, and send to a trading friend.

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SET YOUR RULES

01

Establish Context

Is today worth trading at all?

  • Is the broad market trending, or choppy and heavy? Any Fed or jobs report today?
  • How many clean gappers over 40 percent, and is one clearly leading?
  • Are you sharp today, or a little off?

Rule: If nothing is happening, walk away. A day off costs nothing.

In MAKETZO: Market Context

02

Commit Before You Click

Decide it now, while you can still think.

  • Write down your max loss and your daily target.
  • Pick one shape for the day: A+ only, recovery, or sitting out.
  • Decide now what you will do if you break a rule. Stop for the day? Step away? Pick one.

Rule: The floor you set calm is the only one you will respect bleeding.

In MAKETZO: Morning Lock-In, 9 session modes

TRADE YOUR RULES

This part repeats, every trade, all day.

03

Before the Trade

Does this one qualify?

IS THE STOCK ANY GOOD?

  • Is the trend intact, or are you buying a bounce in a downtrend?
  • Is there real volume, or is no one really viewing this stock?
  • Is the spread tight, or will you be red the moment you fill?
  • Do the one-minute candles have enough range to work with?

SMALL CAP TRAPS

  • Can this company sell new stock into you today?
  • Is there real news behind this move, or is it running on nothing?
  • Is this early in the move, or after it already ran?

Rule: Great setups are obvious. If you have to convince yourself, it is not there.

In MAKETZO: Dilution Check, Halt Clock, Knowledge Center

The Gate

If it fails the second you are in, can you take that loss and be fine? If no, do not enter.

04

Manage the Trade

Trade like a defender, not an attacker.

  • Know where you are getting out before you are in.
  • The stop is the stop. You do not negotiate with it.
  • Extension is not opportunity.

Rule: Rules over gut. Gut over hope.

In MAKETZO: Edge and Pulse timing

05

After the Trade

The next click gets decided right here.

  • Name the setup and write what happened, while you still remember why.
  • A loss is a fact, not a debt. The market does not owe you.
  • If you are speeding up or forcing things, pause and reset.

Rule: Do not try to make it all back today. Journal every setup you take. Your own record will tell you which of yours works over time.

In MAKETZO: Journal, The Reset, Setup performance

Running the whole time: your loss limit · your profit floor · your strike count

When one of them says stop, that is not a new decision. You made it before your first trade.

In MAKETZO: Profit Floor, Strike System, COACH SAYS

REVIEW YOUR RULES

06

Close the Day

Where traders actually win and lose.

  • Green: the only job left is not giving it back.
  • Red: the floor you signed is the floor. Today is over.
  • Score how you traded, not what you made. Then journal the one thing you will focus on tomorrow.

Rule: Grade the process. The money follows it, not the other way round.

In MAKETZO: The Debrief, Picard Score

Environment Over Setup

Patience creates opportunity.

Defense Over Offense

Protect the day, every day.

Small Losses Win

Avoid the big one. Time does the rest.

New to any of these terms? Every one has an article in the MAKETZO Knowledge Center.

Run the system, not your impulses.

The graphic is the map. MAKETZO is the desk that holds you to it: a journal that scores your discipline, a Focus Room that catches the trade you would regret, and indicators that keep you honest.

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