Downside-first entries

Downside Before Upside: Market Structure Trading Rule

Most trading advice is upside-shaped: find opportunity, refine entry, capture move. But scalable infrastructure begins with the opposite question: what is the downside the market can impose before any upside is even possible? That is the operational meaning of downside before upside—a market-structure rule that forces execution to be permitted by the environment, not justified by...

Environment-Based Trading: Behaviour-First Foundations

The Foundation of Environment-Based Trading Environment-based trading reframes how systematic systems decide whether to operate before asking how to execute. Most trading frameworks begin with a familiar question: where is price going next? Environment-based trading begins somewhere else entirely. It asks whether the market environment itself is suitable for systematic execution—before any discussion of entries, targets, or signals. This perspective aligns with...