How to trade a suggestion

What you get

Entry	A trigger to watch, not a limit price to leave in the market.
Stop loss	Where the idea is wrong. If price trades here, the setup failed.
TP1 · TP2 · TP3	Three targets, nearest first. You take money off in thirds.
Confidence	How cleanly the structure matched. Not a win probability — don't read "Low" as "will lose", and don't size off it.

You are never shown why the level was chosen. You don't need that to trade the plan: the five numbers are the plan.

1 · Wait for the close. Never rest a limit order.

Price pokes into these zones and reverses all the time without following through, and a resting limit order fills you into exactly those fake-outs.

Confirmation = a candle that closes back through the entry price, in your direction, after price has already touched the zone.

• BUY — price dips to or below the entry, then a candle closes back above it → enter at that close.
• SELL — price pushes to or above the entry, then a candle closes back below it → enter at that close.

Judge the close on one timeframe below the one you're scanning: a weekly idea confirms on a daily close, an hourly idea on a 15–30 minute close.

2 · Three ways a suggestion dies before you ever enter

All three cost you nothing, and the tracker counts them separately from wins and losses for exactly that reason.

Invalidated	Price hit the stop level before any confirming close. The structure broke. No trade — don't wait for it to come back.
Ran away	The confirming close was already at TP1. You missed it. Entering past your own first target leaves the targets too close to an unmoved stop.
Expired	No confirmation inside the window (roughly three weeks on a weekly idea, a couple of hours on a scalping one). A stale zone is a dead zone.

3 · Size off your fill, not off the entry

Your risk unit — 1R — is measured from the price you actually filled at:

BUY:   R = fill − stop loss
SELL:  R = stop loss − fill

Because you waited for a close, your fill is usually a little worse than the trigger, so your real risk is a little wider than the printed entry − stop gap. Measure everything from the fill. Risk a small fixed fraction of the account per idea (0.5–1% is ordinary); position size = that amount ÷ the distance from fill to stop.

4 · Take profit in thirds, and ratchet the stop behind it

This is the part that decides whether a "winning" idea actually pays.

Once this banks	Move the stop to
(on entry)	Stop loss
1/3 at TP1	TP1
1/3 at TP2	TP2
last 1/3 at TP3	done

The moment TP1 is banked, the remaining two-thirds can only exit in profit: either it runs on, or it comes back and takes you out at TP1.

Why not just break-even? Bank a third at TP1 (~+1R on that third) and send the other two-thirds back to your entry, and an ordinary pullback closes them at zero: the trade nets about +0.3R after hitting its first target. Moving the stop onto TP1 turns that same pullback into roughly +1R.

The cost, stated plainly: this trail is tight, so ordinary pullbacks will often take your last third at TP2 before it can reach TP3. You will get very few full TP3 runners. That trade is deliberate — consistency over rare tails.

In the app, an active trade's Stop now row is always the stop you should currently be holding.

5 · Same candle, both levels? Assume the stop went first.

If one candle looks like it hit both your next target and your current stop, score it as the stop. Never take the optimistic reading. The published record uses the same rule everywhere, which is what keeps your results and ours comparable.

6 · What "Take trade" does

It does not place an order. No broker is connected to this app, and none can be. Taking a trade copies the plan into My Trades, where the app replays real prices over it and tells you when each of the above applies — including when to move your stop.

Your journal is scored on the assumption that you moved the stop when told. Leave it at the original stop and the app's version of your record will be the optimistic one.

Alerts are pulled while the app is installed and has been opened recently — this is not background push, so one can arrive late. Updates always appear inside the app itself.

Worked example (BUY)

Entry 1.0850 · SL 1.0800 · TP1 1.0900 · TP2 1.0925 · TP3 1.0960

1. Price drifts to 1.0847, then a daily candle closes at 1.0856 → confirmed. You're long at 1.0856.
2. Risk = 1.0856 − 1.0800 = 56 pips = 1R. Size so 56 pips is your fixed account risk; split in three.
3. 1.0900 → sell 1/3 (+0.79R on that third). Stop to 1.0900.
4. 1.0925 → sell 1/3 (+1.23R). Stop to 1.0925.
5. Stalls at 1.0942, falls back → last third out at +1.23R. No TP3.
6. Result: (0.79 + 1.23 + 1.23) / 3 ≈ +1.08R.

Break-even instead of the ratchet at step 3 would have made that same trade ≈ +0.26R.

What not to do

• Don't rest a limit order at the entry price.
• Don't enter without a confirming close.
• Don't move the stop backwards, ever — it only ratchets toward profit.
• Don't widen the stop to "give it room". The stop is where the idea is wrong.
• Don't add to a losing position.
• Don't read the confidence label as odds.