Your Trading Day
One product, one day
Mechanical Trader is built around the shape of a trading day. Each part has its moment, and the parts feed each other: what you capture in one comes back as sharper help in the next. Skip a piece and nothing breaks, but the loop is where the value lives. Here's the day, start to finish, and what each stop does for the ones after it.
Before the open: Morning Ritual
A short guided audio session before the market opens. Breathing to settle the body, then a clearing segment to quiet the mind, so you start the day from a steady baseline instead of a tense one.
What it feeds: the session. The settled state is a baseline, so when your pattern starts moving in you mid-session, the shift stands out instead of blending into a morning that started tense. Full guide: Morning Ritual
Some mornings: Cold Review
If yesterday left something worth a calm look, a short conversation with the coach appears before the session: your pattern fired, a plan didn't hold, something needs a clearer head than the close could give it. You look at yesterday flat and rested, and the conclusions are usually better than the ones available the same evening.
What it feeds: your pattern work. What you learn about how yesterday's moment actually went sharpens how the coach helps you at the next one. If it doesn't appear, yesterday left nothing that needs it, and you go straight to the session. Full guide: Cold Review
During the session: the Coach and the Trade Card
The coach is in the room while you trade. Start by giving it your read: what the environment looks like to you, what gets you in, what keeps you flat. It won't grade the read or predict whether you're right; it locks it in as your own benchmark for the day. Then talk to it at the moments that matter: hesitating on an entry, tempted to move a stop, wanting a trade that isn't your setup, rattled after a loss. It knows your rules, your pattern, and what you said this morning, and it holds you to the version of you that wrote them.
Log trades on the trade card as you take them: executions, stop and target, which setup, your own call on whether it followed your rules, and a line on what you saw. A few words on your state while the trade was live go with it. Stop and target changes are tracked as they happen, and the coach can step in when a change matters.
What it feeds: everything. The session conversation and the logged trades are the raw record of what you actually did under pressure, and every review, every setup track record, and every pattern catch downstream works from it. Full guides: The Coach, Trade Card, Journal
After the close: Close the Day
A few minutes with the coach once you're done trading: what happened, where the pattern showed up or didn't, what you're keeping from the day. The outcome will try to write the day's story for you; the close is where you separate what the market did from what you did, while the decisions are still sharp.
What it feeds: tomorrow. Whatever's unresolved at close carries forward, so tomorrow's coach opens against the real end of today instead of a blank page, and the morning gets a cold review if the day earned one. Full guide: Close The Day
Weekly: the review
Once a week the coach sits with you over the whole week: what the sessions showed, where execution drifted from plan, what got in the way, and the one focus that matters most for next week. Daily work is close-up by nature; the weekly review is where the trend becomes visible and turns into direction.
The loop
Morning prepares the session. The session feeds the close. The close feeds tomorrow's morning. The days feed the week. None of it is homework for its own sake; every capture comes back to you as help at the moment you need it, and the loop gets sharper every time it turns.