What does the checklist beside the builder look for?
Strategy › Builder › Checklist
The checklist reads the four panels and flags the gaps a first rule set usually has: no exit for a losing trade, a typed size instead of a size rule, winners smaller than losers, too many conditions for the sample, and rules that peek at the future. It re-reads the panels as you edit. A gap is a warning, not a block.
Step by step
- A losing trade is closedThe stop loss in Exits. Nothing in the builder runs without one.
- Every trade is sized the same wayA size rule means every trade risks a known amount. A typed override in Position size turns the rule off, and the checklist says so.
- Winners at least as big as losersFrom the target and stop. The line says what share of trades must win just to break even, before fees.
- Few enough conditionsThree or more entry rules on a window of ninety days or less fit the past more than the future. Fewer rules, or a longer window.
- No peekingThe tester only reads bars that have closed and fills an entry at the close of the bar that triggered it, so this line is always met here.
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Strategy › Builder › Checklist. The free plan needs no card.