A daily zone-trading routine

The platform rewards a routine more than it rewards screen time. Here is a structure that takes about fifteen minutes of active attention a day.

Before the open (5 minutes)

1. Open the Daily Brief. Read SPY’s stage first — it sets how aggressive you should be with anything else.
2. Scan the column that matches your direction. Shortlist the two or three entries with the largest swings and highest agreement.
3. Open each shortlisted symbol’s roadmap. Read the derivation, note the invalidation level, and decide in advance what ladder depth would make you act.
4. Set the alert that encodes that decision. You are done until it fires.

During the session (mostly nothing)

Let the alerts work. When one fires, open the roadmap and check three things: the ladder stack (is it at your threshold?), the zone state (still holding, or already invalidated?), and the distance to the roadmap target (is the reward side still worth it?). If all three pass, execute your plan. If any fail, pass — the scanner will have another row tomorrow.

After the close (5 minutes)

1. Check your watchlists: anything that moved from near to testing becomes tomorrow’s homework.
2. Review zones that invalidated today. Broken support is information about the names you follow.
3. Skim the scanner’s confirmed list once — occasionally the market hands you a setup nobody was watching.

The theme throughout: decisions get made when you are calm and the market is closed or quiet; execution is just carrying out a plan the evidence already justified.