# Daily briefing routine — 15 minutes before the session

Start 20 minutes before your session window. The first 5 minutes are your platform and your calendar. The 15 minutes after that are the team.

Times shown as minutes from the start of the team (T+). Example session: MNQ, New York, entries 09:45–11:30.

| T+ | Step | Seat | Chat | You paste | You get |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| −5–0 | Platform and calendar | You, News agent | A | Today's calendar rows, copied as text | Limits on, bracket loaded, **event sheet** with blackout windows |
| 0–3 | Briefing | Analyst | A | 3 screenshots (high → low timeframe), the event sheet | Market brief, regime label |
| 3–6 | Setup check | Researcher | A | Current chart | Setup watch: PASS / FAIL / CAN'T TELL, watch zones, trigger sentence |
| 6–9 | Debate | Bull, Bear | B, C (fresh) | The packet: brief + watch + one scenario line | Two cases, each with its best point against itself |
| 9–11 | Risk check | Risk Manager | D (fresh) | Tilt check answers, account state, the event sheet | STATE, TEAM ON/CLOSED, risk budget, trades left, blackouts |
| 11–13 | Trade card | Trader | A | Watch, scenario, budget | 1–2 conditional trade cards |
| optional, +1 | Pre-mortem | Bear | C | The trade card | Three ways it fails, each with a tell to watch |
| 13–15 | Memo | Decider | A | Whole packet | Decision memo, score 1–5, TAKE or PASS verdict |
| 15 | **Auto-execution** | — | — | — | The execution agent acts on line 9 of the memo. Set alerts at the watch zones. |

**In session:** trigger prints → the card and account state go to chat D (the in-session check) → CLEAR → the execution agent places the card exactly as written. BLOCK → no order is sent. After any losing trade, rerun the tilt check before anything else. No other AI during the session.

**After the session (5 minutes):** run the debrief on each card in chat A, taken or not. Copy its journal fields into the row. Save the memo.

**Stop rules:** if the Analyst says EVENT DAY inside your window and your rules say no trading on those, or the Researcher says NO SETUP TODAY, or the tilt check or day check says CLOSED, the routine ends there. That's a finished routine, not a failed one. Nothing is sent.

**Short on time:** use the fast team in one chat. Keep the in-session check in its own chat.

## Optional: schedule a pre-brief

If your tool can run a saved prompt on a schedule, schedule a short **pre-brief** to be ready when you sit down. A scheduled task can't see your chart, so keep it to things it can read: your rules and your checklist. It does not replace the event sheet, which is built from the calendar you paste.

```text
Pre-brief for {instrument}, {date}. Using my rules file and risk sheet only:
1. Remind me of my session window, my daily stop, my max trades and my news rule.
2. Print "This week's change" from my rules file.
3. Print my pre-session checklist: platform limits on, bracket template loaded, calendar rows copied, screenshots ready ({timeframes}).
Do not comment on price or on today's events. You cannot see my chart or my calendar.
```

Check your tool's current help pages for how scheduling works. Features and names change.

## Pre-session checklist
- [ ] Platform daily loss limit is on
- [ ] Bracket template loaded, max size set
- [ ] Calendar rows copied as text, event sheet built
- [ ] Screenshots: high to low timeframe, price and time scales visible, latest bar on the right
- [ ] Chats A, B, C, D open in the team workspace
- [ ] Journal open