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Hou5eMoney

The Desk
The journal every member uses. Paper trades log themselves when they close; everything you add stays on your device.
5
Indicators
Trigger · Pulse · Flow · Grid · Tide
10
% Rule
Max 1% account risk per trade
3
Reads, Two Seconds
Trend · Entry · Confirmation
"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." — Warren Buffett
How the Desk Works

This is the trading journal every Hou5eMoney member uses to build discipline in a paper (simulated) account — practice and education only, never a step toward trading real money. Everything saves automatically to your device — nothing leaves your browser. Type what you traded, why you took it, what the dashboards said. Review weekly. Find your edge. The dashboards tell you what the market is doing; the Desk tells you what you're doing.

  • Set your account size first under Account / Risk. That powers the 10% rule and per-trade stop sizing.
  • Run the daily routine in the order the Schedule shows — premarket prep, prime window, power close.
  • Log every trade as it closes. Pick Shares or Options Spread — the form changes to match.
  • Journal at the end of day. Two minutes. Did you obey the rules? What did the desk say? What did you do?
  • Review weekly. The metrics on the Dashboard tell you where you actually leak money.
  • Export your data any time — it downloads as a single JSON file you can back up or move to another device.

The Hou5eMoney Creed

Read it once. Then read it before every session.

01Trade with the trend. Never against it.
02If any dashboard says CHOP, the answer is no.
03Match every entry to the dominant trend on all five indicators.
04When colors disagree, stand aside. Cash is a position.
05Stops are non-negotiable. Place them before the entry, never after.
06Size for the loss, not the win. The market is not a coin flip.
07When the Exit Dot fires, you exit. The next setup will come.
08The chart owes you nothing. You owe yourself discipline.
09Paper-trade only. This is practice and education — never real money.
10If you didn't follow the rules, it wasn't the system that lost. It was you.
« Trade the plan. Let the colors guide you. Your only job is to obey them. »
Disclaimer

"Trade what you see. Verify what you trade. Own every outcome."

  1. No Investment Advice; Educational Use Only. The Desk, the Hou5eMoney indicators, scripts, charts, triggers, and any related materials are provided for general educational and informational purposes only. Nothing constitutes investment, financial, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Consult a licensed professional before making any trading or investment decision.
  2. Risk of Loss; No Guarantee of Results. Trading involves substantial risk, including the potential loss of all capital. Past performance, hypothetical results, and any triggers produced by these materials are not indicative of future results. Trade only with capital you can afford to lose entirely.
  3. No Warranties. The materials are provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or uninterrupted operation.
  4. Limitation of Liability. In no event shall Hou5eMoney be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including lost profits or loss of capital, arising from use of or inability to use these materials.
  5. Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Hou5eMoney from any claims arising out of your use of the materials, your trading decisions, or your violation of these terms.
  6. Intellectual Property. All materials — including the Hou5eMoney name, logos, indicator code, color systems, and the Desk — are the exclusive property of Hou5eMoney and protected by copyright, trademark, and applicable laws. No portion may be reproduced, distributed, sublicensed, reverse-engineered, or used to train any AI or derivative model without prior written consent.
  7. Governing Law. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force.

The market speaks in color. Learn the language.

Performance Dashboard

"You are not trying to predict every move. You are trying to find the BEST moves."
⚠
Paper-Trade Only
Practice on the built-in paper account — this is a learning and practice tool, for simulated trading only. Nothing here is a recommendation to trade real money. Trading is a form of gambling — never risk what you can't afford to lose. Log every practice trade here. Discipline beats prediction every single time the bell rings.
Total Trades
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all-time
Win Rate
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of closed trades
Net P/L
$0
closed positions
Avg R Multiple
—
reward / risk realized
Expectancy
—
avg R per trade
Profit Factor
—
gross win / gross loss
Avg Win
$0
winners only
Avg Loss
$0
losers only
Best Trade
$0
Worst Trade
$0
Largest Win Streak
0
Largest Loss Streak
0
Avg Hold Time
—
Rule Adherence
—
% trades following plan
A+ Setup Rate
—
% with 5/5 confluence
Current Equity
$0
starting + net P/L
Equity Curve
Cumulative net P/L of every closed trade in the order it closed. The shape matters more than any single trade.
By Setup
By Strategy Type
By Day of Week
Expectancy — Why It's The Number That Matters

Win rate is a comforting number, but a misleading one. Expectancy is what separates real traders from hopeful ones — it tells you how much you earn, on average, per unit of risk. Expectancy = (Win % × Avg Win R) − (Loss % × Avg Loss R). Positive expectancy = your system has an edge. Negative = it loses money no matter how good individual trades feel. Recalculate it monthly.

Account

Your paper balance and record, your risk rules, and the broker you place real trades at.
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Trading account
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Equity = your starting size (set below) + realized + open P/L on paper positions. In trades is what your open positions tie up (a debit, or a credit spread’s width less the credit); free cash is the rest — there is no margin here. The desk refuses any ticket over the 10% cap or over your free cash. Simulated money, modeled prices — simulated performance does not ensure success in a live environment.

The 10% / 1% Rule

Position-sizing is the single decision that keeps you in the game. The Hou5eMoney rule: Risk at most 10% of your account in any single trade — and within that trade, lose at most 1% of your account if your stop fires. If your account is $10,000, your largest position is $1,000 and your max loss on that trade is $100. The other 90% sits in cash, ready for the next setup. Cash is a position.

Your Account
Pick a size or type your own. $10,000 is the default. Saved to your account — every paper ticket, on every device, is sized against it.
Closes every open paper trade at the mark, cancels working orders, and starts the record over at the size above. The old trades stay in your Log.
Realized on closed trades: paper trades plus anything you logged by hand.
Starting + Net P/L.
The biggest dollar amount you should ever put into one trade.
If your stop hits, this is the maximum dollar damage allowed.
Hit this number — close the laptop. The market will be here tomorrow.
Default 1%. Aggressive: 1.5–2%. Conservative: 0.5%.
For the size calculator only. The paper desk holds the line at 10% — it will not take a bigger ticket.
Default 3%. When you hit this — done for the day.
Your Broker

Paper trading needs none of this — your paper account is already open, on the Monitor tab. When you want to place an idea for real, you place it at your own broker: Hou5eMoney never sends an order anywhere and never touches a brokerage account. Pick your broker once here and every ticket set to My broker writes the order out for you to paste and opens your broker’s trade screen in a new tab.

Pick your broker

Any broker works — including one that isn’t listed. Trade opens their web trade screen, Site their home page if you have no account there yet. Every card carries the full trade; the written-out ticket is there so you type nothing twice. Always check the numbers on your broker’s screen before you send: their quotes are live, ours are delayed.

Funded (prop) accountsTrade their capital, keep a split

A prop firm funds you after an evaluation: you trade their account on their platform and keep most of the profit. The same 10% / 1% sizing applies there, only stricter — their daily-loss limits end the account. Prove the habit on paper first. Hou5eMoney has no relationship with any of these firms; do your own diligence on fees and payout terms.

Position Size Calculator

Type entry, stop, and your risk % — the calculator tells you how many shares you can take.

Three Rules That Save Accounts
  1. Never override the size calculator — if it says 33 shares, you take 33, not 100. Your gut isn't a position-size model.
  2. Hit the daily loss limit, you're done — not "one more to break even." That's revenge, and revenge is how accounts blow up.
  3. Stops go in before the entry — not after. A mental stop is a wish, not a stop.

Monitor

Activity and positions on your paper account, laid out the way a broker’s Monitor tab is. Simulated money.
Today’s Trade Activity
Working Orders: 0
Nothing working.
Filled Orders: 0
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Canceled Orders: 0
TimeSpreadSideQtySymbolContractPriceReasonOrderStatus
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Marks are modeled from delayed data and will not match a broker to the cent. Delta is share-equivalent for the position. Tied up is what the trade ties up against your 10% cap. Simulated performance does not ensure success in a live environment.

Trade

Build an order on the option chain, vetted names only, and send it to your paper account. Working orders, fills and positions live on the Monitor tab.

Daily Schedule (Mountain Time)

"Hands free, eyes free — let the desk speak."

The market opens at 7:30 AM MT (9:30 AM ET) and closes at 2:00 PM MT (4:00 PM ET). Not all of those hours are equal. This schedule tells you exactly what to run, when to push, and when to keep your hands in your pockets.

6:00 – 7:00 AM MT Premarket Prep
Calm. Strategic. Coffee. Zero emotional clicking.
Scanners: HM WEEKLY CREDIT · HM DAILY TREND  |  Indicators: TIDE · GRID
  • Build bullish watchlist, bearish watchlist, squeeze candidates, momentum names.
  • Check TIDE — heavy-flow week or thin tape? Thin = smaller size all day.
  • Use HM DAILY TREND to confirm structure. Choppy = stand aside that name.
  • Mark overnight highs/lows, key support and resistance levels.
  • Set your max risk for the day BEFORE you see the first candle.
BEST FOR: Swing planning · Debit/credit spread planning  |  AVOID: Forcing premarket entries · Random low-liquidity names
7:00 – 7:30 AM MT Final Open Prep
Lock in your battle plan. Not after the open. NOW.
Scanners: HM 4H HIGH BETA · HM SQUEEZE EXPANSION 1H  |  Indicators: TRIGGER (mode/speed set) · PULSE (check STRENGTH)
  • Confirm your top 3–5 names. Drop the rest.
  • Check 4H momentum on each — is FLOW accelerating? Is GRID holding bull/bear?
  • Look for SQZ ON in PULSE. Squeeze setups are your A+ candidates at the open.
  • Identify exact entry zones — breakout levels, reclaim levels, dip-buy zones.
BEST FOR: Final watchlist locked · Entry zones marked  |  AVOID: Adding new names at 7:28 AM · Changing your plan after it's set
7:30 – 7:45 AM MT ⚠ Opening Chaos — Watch Only
Spreads are wide. Triggers are unreliable. Trap candles common. Let price reveal itself.
  • NO new entries in the first 15 minutes unless an A+ setup is undeniable.
  • Use this window to confirm the day's direction, not to chase it.
7:45 – 8:30 AM MT Open Drive Window
Beautiful chaos. Move with it — not against it.
Scanners: HM OPEN DRIVE 5M  |  Indicators: TRIGGER · FLOW · PULSE
  • TRIGGER on 5M — wait for BreakoutUp, ReclaimBuy, TrapLong, or ConfBuy before entry.
  • FLOW must agree — BIAS BULL + ACCEL UP for longs, BIAS BEAR + ACCEL DN for shorts.
  • PULSE STRENGTH past ±40 minimum. Gray bars = no trade.
  • These are FAST trades. Have your exit planned before you enter.
BEST FOR: Fast debits · Momentum shares · Quick continuation  |  AVOID: Giant emotional candles · Revenge trading · Overtrading
8:30 – 10:00 AM MT ⭐ Prime Money Window
This is where serious money moves. A+ setups only. Every reading has to agree.
Scanners: HM 4H HIGH BETA · HM SQUEEZE EXPANSION 1H  |  Indicators: TRIGGER · FLOW · PULSE · GRID · TIDE
  • WEEKLY (TIDE) aligned + DAILY (GRID) aligned + 4H FLOW accelerating = A+ conditions.
  • GRID must show HOLDING BULL (or BEAR). If GRID says WAIT — you wait.
  • PULSE STRENGTH above +50 for longs / below −50 for shorts.
  • TRIGGER must fire ConfBuy, BreakoutUp, or ReclaimBuy for longs.
  • This window produces the day's best P/L. Don't blow it on garbage setups earlier.
BEST FOR: Debit spreads · Continuation swings · Directional momentum  |  AVOID: CHOP on any dashboard · Entering on volume below 1.0× average
10:00 – 11:30 AM MT Midday Chop
Welcome to fake breakout city. Reduce aggression. Manage winners.
Scanners: HM DAILY TREND · HM FLOW DIVERGENCE 4H  |  Indicators: FLOW (watch for divergence) · GRID
  • Manage open winners — trail stops, consider trimming into strength.
  • Use HM FLOW DIVERGENCE 4H to spot exhaustion in existing moves.
  • Pullback and reclaim setups are the best plays here — not new breakouts.
  • If GRID flips to WAIT, close the position. Don't argue with it.
BEST FOR: Managing winners · Pullback entries · Reclaim setups  |  AVOID: Random breakout chasing · Emotional scalps · Forcing new full-size positions
11:30 AM – 1:45 PM MT Power Close
Institutions begin repositioning. The tape gets real again.
Scanners: HM DAILY TREND · HM WEEKLY CREDIT  |  Indicators: TIDE · FLOW
  • Watch TIDE — if weekly volume is surging into close, institutional repositioning is real.
  • FLOW BIAS shift late in the day can point to an overnight trend change.
  • Best for swing entries and overnight holds if all five indicators align.
  • Close all day-trade positions by 1:50 PM MT.
BEST FOR: Swing debits · Overnight holds · Credit spreads  |  AVOID: Oversized swings · Opening new positions in the last 10 minutes
1:45 – 2:00 PM MT ⚠ Closing Imbalances — No New Positions
Day-trade positions should already be closed by 1:50 PM MT. Don't open anything new.

Day-by-Day Personality

DayVibeBest ScannersAggression
MONMarket waking up. Fresh rotations, new leaders, macro direction.HM WEEKLY CREDIT · HM DAILY TRENDLIGHT
TUEMomentum day. One of the best trading days. Continuation from Monday.HM OPEN DRIVE 5M · HM 4H HIGH BETA · HM SQUEEZE EXPANSION 1HHIGH
WEDReset day. The market traps traders. Reclaims, reversals, failed breakdowns.HM FLOW DIVERGENCE 4H · HM SQUEEZE EXPANSION 1HSELECTIVE
THUContinuation day. Trend continuation heaven. Strong names keep running.HM 4H HIGH BETA · HM DAILY TREND · HM SQUEEZE EXPANSION 1HHIGH
FRIProtect your week. Aggressive in morning. Very careful in afternoon.HM OPEN DRIVE 5M · HM DAILY TRENDTAPER

HM5 Scanners

"Scanners are your hunters. They bring back candidates — you decide who gets the trade."
The Golden Rule

SCANNERS find POSSIBILITIES. INDICATORS confirm PROBABILITY. EXECUTION creates PROFIT.
Never confuse those three things. A scanner result means "look here." An indicator confirmation means "act here."

The Six Scanners

Think of the stack like a professional sports team. Every scanner has a job. Match the scanner to the moment.

HM Weekly Credit
"What are institutions quietly positioning into?"
Purpose

Macro direction · Institutional flow · Stable trend environments · Premium selling

Best For

Credit spreads · Swing positioning · Directional bias

Best Used: Premarket · Late day · Mondays · Thursdays
Personality: The calm veteran trader. Not emotional. Not flashy. Just smart positioning.
HM Daily Trend
"What names are actually trending?"
Purpose

Establish directional bias · Locate continuation structure · Build your watchlist

Best For

Swing debits · Continuation trades · Trend-following shares

Best Used: Premarket · Midday · Power hour
Personality: Your map. It tells you where the road actually goes.
HM 4H High Beta
"Where is momentum accelerating?"
Purpose

Primary setup engine · Momentum continuation · High beta expansion

Best For

Debit spreads · Aggressive continuation · Trend momentum

Best Used: 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM MT · Tuesdays · Thursdays
Personality: This scanner drinks espresso and breaks resistance levels.
HM Flow Divergence 4H
"Is momentum secretly weakening?"
Purpose

Detect exhaustion · Spot reversals · Locate hidden accumulation/distribution

Best For

Reclaim setups · Reversals · Failed breakdowns · Trap setups

Best Used: Wednesdays · Midday · After major runs
Personality: This scanner sees lies.
HM Squeeze Expansion 1H
"Compression… then BOOM."
Purpose

Detect squeeze releases · Volatility expansion · Early acceleration

Best For

Continuation entries · Expansion trades · Momentum debits

Best Used: 7:30 AM – 10:00 AM MT · Tuesdays · Thursdays · After consolidations
Personality: A coiled spring. Looking for fresh expansion energy.
HM Open Drive 5M
"Who came out swinging at the bell?"
Purpose

Opening momentum discovery · Institutional drive detection · Fast continuation

Best For

Day trades · Fast debits · Opening momentum

Best Used: 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM MT · Tuesdays · Fridays
Personality: This scanner kicks the market door open. You are NOT marrying these trades.

Day-by-Day Scanner Pairing

Day Vibe Best Scanners
MON Market waking up. Fresh rotations, new leaders. Trade lighter early. HM Weekly Credit · HM Daily Trend
TUE Momentum day. Continuation from Monday's rotations. Aggression: HIGH. HM Open Drive 5M · HM 4H High Beta · HM Squeeze Expansion 1H
WED Reset day. Market traps traders. Reclaims, reversals, failed breakdowns. HM Flow Divergence 4H · HM Squeeze Expansion 1H
THU Continuation heaven. Strong names keep running. Aggression: HIGH. HM 4H High Beta · HM Daily Trend · HM Squeeze Expansion 1H
FRI Protect your week. Aggressive AM, careful PM. Avoid oversized weekend swings. HM Open Drive 5M · HM Daily Trend

Multi-Timeframe System

Every timeframe has a different job. Scanners work across multiple timeframes; indicators confirm within your chosen timeframe. Stack them and you stop guessing direction — you read it.

TF Job Primary Tools
WEEKLYMarket DirectionHM Weekly Credit · Tide
DAILYTrend BiasHM Daily Trend · Grid
4HSetup EngineHM 4H High Beta · Flow · Pulse
1HTiming + ExpansionHM Squeeze Expansion 1H · Pulse
5MExecutionHM Open Drive 5M · Trigger · Flow

Log a Trade

"Mechanical, not magical. Every trigger is drawn by a script — not a hunch."
Trade Type
Basics
Position — Shares
Hou5eMoney Dashboard Reads
Above ±50 = real conviction. ±20 = chop.
A+ Confluence Checklist

Check what lined up. 5 of 5 = an A+ setup. Three or fewer = pass.

Trade Management
Auto-calculated when entry & exit are filled. Override if needed.
Skip This Trade Unless…

If you can't check off at least three of these boxes, the trade isn't A+ — pass.

  • ✓ Trend agrees on all five dashboards.
  • ✓ Pulse STRENGTH is past ±50.
  • ✓ Flow BIAS is on your side and ACCEL points your way.
  • ✓ No opposite-color CVD divergence dot in the last 2 bars.
  • ✓ Volume on the upper dashboard is above 1.0× average.
  • ✓ Tide verdict is HEAVY or UNUSUAL on your side — not NEUTRAL or thin.
  • ✓ Trigger has fired an arrow (not just colored a candle).
  • ✓ Grid is HOLDING BULL or HOLDING BEAR — not WAIT.

Trade Log

Paper trades log themselves when they close. Anything you placed elsewhere, add here so the stats stay honest.
+ Log a trade by hand (placed at your broker, or anywhere else)
DateTickerTypeDirSetup EntryExitStop SizeP/L ($)R RulesNotes

Tip: click any row to load that trade back into the New Trade form for editing.

Your week, read by the desk
Close a few trades and the review writes itself.

Journal & Notes

"The desk evolves. The discipline doesn't."
Notes & Ideas

Something you heard on the news, a name to watch, a level, a thought during the session. One line, timestamped, kept on this device.

Today's Entry

Journal History

DateBiasTradesP/LPlan?Lesson

Weekly & Monthly Review

"You are not trying to predict every move. You are trying to find the BEST moves."
End-of-Week Review Checklist
  • Read every trade you took. Did each one match an A+ pattern?
  • Calculate your week's expectancy. Is it positive?
  • Which setups produced your best R-multiple? Which leaked money?
  • What time windows produced your best P/L? Worst?
  • Look at your rule-adherence %. If it's under 80%, the problem isn't your edge — it's your discipline.
  • One concrete change you'll make next week. Just one.

A+ Setups — Reference Library

"When all five agree, size up. When they don't, sit out — cash is a position."
A+ — Confluence Buy (Highest Priority)

WHAT YOU SEE: Trigger fires a cyan CONFLUENCE BUY arrow — FLOW CVD and the HM5 Exit Dot are both aligned bullish simultaneously. This is the desk's single strongest long trigger. Grid is HOLDING BULL. Pulse STRENGTH is rising.

THE TRADE: Buy the close immediately. Stop below the bar's low. Trail with the fast EMA. Do not hesitate on this trigger — it is the most filtered entry the desk has.

A+ — Reclaim Buy (Stop-Run Reversal)

WHAT YOU SEE: Price sweeps below a prior swing low (stop-hunting), then closes back above that level. Trigger fires a gold RECLAIM BUY arrow. Price is above the big EMA. Bar closes bullish.

THE TRADE: Enter on the reclaim candle close. Stop just below the swept low. Take half off at the prior high, trail the rest.

A+ — Triple-Confirm Breakout

WHAT YOU SEE: Trigger fires a yellow BREAKOUT arrow. Pulse strength strongly positive with a yellow breakout dot. Flow prints a yellow ACCEL UP bar. Grid prints GRID: BUY. Tide is HEAVY BULL FLOW or UNUSUAL BULL SURGE.

THE TRADE: Buy the close of the breakout bar. Stop just under the breakout candle's low. Target = height of the prior range, then trail with the fast EMA.

A+ — Dip Buy with CVD Absorption

WHAT YOU SEE: Trend is BULL on all dashboards. Price pulls back to the fast EMA. Trigger fires a lime BUY DIP arrow. Flow shows a cyan divergence dot and BIAS flips back to BULL. Pulse STRENGTH curls up off the zero line.

THE TRADE: Buy the close. Stop just below the dip low. Target the prior swing high or trail with the fast EMA.

A+ — Rip Fade with CVD Divergence

WHAT YOU SEE: Higher-timeframe trend is BEAR. Price rips into the fast EMA. Trigger fires a pink SELL RIP arrow. Flow drops a red divergence dot — buyers pushed up but flow shows sellers absorbing. BIAS flips to BEAR.

THE TRADE: Short the close. Stop above the rip high. Target the prior swing low.

A+ — Trap Reversal

WHAT YOU SEE: A breakout/breakdown fires against the macro trend, then immediately fails. Pulse drops a cyan or red trap dot. Flow shows opposite-color absorption. The next candle closes back through the midpoint of the trap bar.

THE TRADE: Enter on the trap candle close. Stop above/below the failed extreme. These move fast — take half off quickly and trail the rest.

★ The Elite Full-Stack Setup

When ALL of these line up at once — things can RUN. This is A+. Every reading lined up. Size up, let it run, trail tight.

  • ★ WEEKLY bullish (TIDE: HEAVY BULL FLOW or UNUSUAL BULL SURGE)
  • ★ DAILY bullish (HM DAILY TREND + GRID: HOLDING BULL)
  • ★ 4H bullish (HM 4H HIGH BETA + FLOW: BIAS BULL + ACCEL UP)
  • ★ 1H squeeze firing (SQZ FIRED in bull regime)
  • ★ FLOW accelerating (yellow ACCEL UP bars in the FLOW panel)
  • ★ GRID holding bull (HOLDING BULL pill active)
  • ★ TRIGGER confirming (CONFLUENCE BUY or BREAKOUT arrow — not just a candle color)
  • ★ PULSE STRENGTH rising (strongly positive and climbing)
  • ★ TIDE heavy bull flow (WK% above 120%, BUY% above 60%)

Color Language Reference

BREAKOUTYellow arrow — range break up + volume
BREAKDOWNOrange arrow — range break down + volume
BUY DIPLime arrow — pullback entry in uptrend
SELL RIPPink arrow — bounce fade in downtrend
TRAP LONG / BULL DIVCyan arrow/dot — bears just got faked
TRAP SHORT / BEAR DIVRed arrow/dot — bulls just got faked
BULL HEATINGTrend up, momentum building
BEAR HEATINGTrend down, momentum building
EXIT LONGPurple dot ABOVE candle — close longs
EXIT SHORTGreen dot BELOW candle — close shorts
SQUEEZE ONBB inside KC — coil before the break
CHOPNo trend — skip the trade

Rating

Your Discipline Rating moves on how you trade, never on whether a trade won. Six checks per closed paper trade; six for six is +30 even on a loss. Overriding a stop costs more than any loss.
The ladder

Everyone starts at 1,000. Rookie below 900, Apprentice to 1,099, Disciplined to 1,299, Pro to 1,499, Master from 1,500. There is no ceiling and no floor below 100.

The six checks
Tape idea graded B or betterYou took it from one of the Trade Radar lists on The Tape (Vertical Spreads, Options Flow, Naked Trades, Condors, Share Setups, Futures Setups) while its card showed a B, A or A+. The desk calls those lists boards. A name you typed into the Trade tab yourself, with no idea card behind it, fails this one.
With the trendYou traded the way the idea card said the chart was leaning. The lists only show ideas that go with the trend, so taking the card’s side passes.
10% or lessThe trade tied up a tenth of the account or less. The ticket stops you above that, so this is the free one.
Exit set within 30 minutesA target or a stop was resting on the position within half an hour of the fill. Exits on the Monitor tab, or from the card.
Let the exit close itThe exit order closed it. Closing by hand with an order resting is an override, and it fails. Closing by hand with nothing resting fails the check above instead.
Journal notes writtenYou saved a Journal entry on the day it closed, or the day after.
Every graded trade
Season board

Ranked by Discipline Rating, then paper P/L. The top ten at month end get the opening call in the Live Room; the top trader gets a coaching session. Set the name you want on the board:

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Replay rating
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Live Data

The site’s feed is 15 minutes behind. Connect your own tastytrade account and every chart runs on live candles, with real-time quotes and chains on the Trade tab — your data, shown only to you. The tastytrade account has to be funded to get live candles; an unfunded account sends 15-minute delayed data.
Your connection
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Brokers
tastytradeLive candles · funded account
Coming soonSchwabNot available yet
Coming soonTradierNot available yet
More brokersOn request

How it works. You sign in at your broker and allow Hou5eMoney to read market data on your behalf. We never see your password and never place an order. Your broker’s data is licensed to you, so it is shown only while you are signed in here, and only to you. A tastytrade connection holds until you disconnect it. Once it is on, everything goes live for you: the candles on every chart (all timeframes, refreshed every minute), the option chain with the market’s own IV, greeks, open interest and volume, and the underlying strip. tastytrade only sends real-time data to funded accounts — an account with no money in it gets 15-minute delayed data, so fund it (any amount) before you test the feed. Schwab and Tradier are coming; they are waiting on the brokers, not on us. Members without a connection keep the 15-minute feed with the current price on the latest candle.

Guide

How every tab works, how to read the order ticket, how to build a trade, how to get out of one, and where the numbers come from.
The Seven Tabs
  1. Monitor is home, laid out like a broker’s Activity and Positions page. Balance & reset on top (size picks, Reset, Erase). Then Today’s Trade Activity: Working, Filled and Canceled orders, one row per leg, red rows sell and green rows buy. Then the Position Statement: every spread with its legs, mark, mark change, delta, P/L Open, P/L Day and BP Effect, subtotals per name, and your account status line.
  2. Desk Lab (lab.html) replays the desk’s rule books on the real ledger: pick a board, stop, ceiling, hold and size and see what the account would have done. The earnings week with the desk read and the weekly leaderboard live there too.
  3. Chart (in the top bar) is the full trade station: any symbol on live candles, the chain and strategies, time & sales, alerts, the desk read on the name, and one-click orders to this paper account.
  4. Trade is the chart, the option chain and Order Entry on one screen. Load a vetted symbol, read the chart, click the chain to build a spread, send it.
  5. Community (top nav) is the feed: paper trades members chose to share, built by the site with the grade and the six checks, plus the desk’s upcoming events and lessons. Post yours with the Post button on any Monitor row or graded trade.
  6. Rating is your Discipline Rating: six checks on every closed paper trade, none on profit. Today’s three tasks and streak, every graded trade with its checks, the season board, and your replay rating from Play.
  7. Account is your starting size ($10K default; pick $20K, $50K, $100K or your own), the Paper Account cards, the 10% / 1% / 3% calculators and the broker you place real trades at.
  8. Log is every closed trade. Paper trades write themselves in; add by hand anything placed at a broker.
  9. Journal is where you write your notes after each trade, plus quick notes during the session.
  10. Live Data connects your own Schwab or tastytrade. Once connected, every chart runs on live candles, and the Trade tab’s chain carries real-time quotes, IV, greeks and open interest. Schwab connections last seven days; tastytrade holds until you disconnect.
  11. Guide is this page. Everything you type is saved on this device; paper positions and orders live on the desk and follow you between devices. Press Export once a week to back the rest up.
The 10% Rule Is Enforced

No ticket may tie up more than 10% of your equity, and there is no margin: what a trade ties up must be free cash. Every ticket shows Ties up $X = Y% of your account before you send — green is fine, amber is near the cap, red will not send and tells you the most contracts it would take. The other 90% stays free for the next setup and for defending what is on. Reset closes everything at the mark and restarts the record; Erase deletes every trade and starts fresh.

Reading The Order Ticket

Every ticket on the site is laid out the way a broker’s order screen is. Tap the ? on any ticket for the same read in place.

SPREAD · SIDE · QTYWhat the trade is (SINGLE, VERTICAL, IRON CONDOR, BUTTERFLY, STRADDLE, STRANGLE, STOCK), which legs you buy and sell, how many. Green rows buy, red rows sell.
TO OPEN / TO CLOSEWhether the order starts a position or takes you out of one.
PRICEPer contract. Options trade 100 shares a contract, so 2.50 = $250 each. A DEBIT (red, everywhere on the site) is what you pay and the most you can lose; a CREDIT (green) is what you collect. The rows are colored by side like a broker’s, BUY green and SELL red; the line under the price says PAY or COLLECT in words. Flip turns the whole ticket around.
NATNatural — the price that fills right now: you pay the ask on what you buy and take the bid on what you sell. Worst price, fastest fill.
MIDHalfway between bid and ask on each leg. The fair-ish price; most fills happen near it with a little patience.
THE SLIDERRuns cheaper on the left to pricier on the right, whichever of Nat or Mid that is. Toward the market = fills sooner, worse price. Better than mid = may wait.
EXPECTED PRICEWhere the stock has to be at expiry for this to break even, and how far that is from here.
FILLS NOW / RESTSAt or through the market it fills at once at your price. Better than the mid it rests as a working order and fills when the spread gets there — or you Modify it closer, or Cancel it.
Building A Trade On The Chain
  1. Type a vetted symbol and press Load. The Underlying strip, the chart and the chain fill in. Pick an expiration pill; the row under it shows implied volatility and the expected move.
  2. Choose a Spread (Single, Vertical, Iron Condor, Butterfly, Straddle, Strangle) and a Width. Click an Ask to buy, a Bid to sell; the other legs build themselves.
  3. Right-click a price (press and hold on a phone) for the full menu: BUY or SELL by spread type, Analyze on the chart, add to watchlist, copy the contract symbol.
  4. Order Entry shows one row per leg. Set the price with the slider or the steppers, set the quantity, read the expected price and the 10% line, then Confirm and Send.
  5. The Order and Strategy Book under it lists every order today with its status and Modify / Cancel on the working ones. The Position block shows what you hold in that name.
Getting Out
  1. Close on the row (Monitor or Trade tab): closes at the current mark, books the result, writes it to the Log.
  2. Exits opens the closing ticket: a target (LIMIT — fills at your price when the mark reaches it) and/or a stop (fires once the price is through it, fills at the mark; on the spread or on the underlying). OCO sets both; a fill cancels the other side. The +25 / +50 / +100% chips match the playbook’s exit rules.
  3. Resting orders show under Working Orders with the live mark and distance. They are checked every two minutes through the session and every minute while you have the site open. Fills and cancels go to Filled / Canceled and the Order and Strategy Book.
Placing It At Your Broker

Hou5eMoney never places a real order and never connects to a brokerage. Pick your broker once (Account → Your Broker; every tile has a Trade link and a Site link, and prop firms are listed too). Then a ticket set to My broker writes the order out for you to paste and opens your broker’s trade screen. Check every number there: their quotes are live.

Where The Numbers Come From

Charts and the chain are about 15 minutes behind unless you connect live data. Paper positions are marked with a model calibrated to the price you filled at, against a live last trade; delta, mark change and P/L Day come from the same model. A mark here will not match a real broker to the cent, and a good paper month never guarantees a good real one. Simulated performance does not ensure success in a live environment.

Glossary

"Vocabulary first. The trade is downstream of the read." — Hou5eMoney
TermWhat It Means
EMAExponential Moving Average. Stack order (fast > mid > slow) defines trend direction.
RSIRelative Strength Index (14). 0–100 oscillator. The desk reads slope more than the level.
ATRAverage True Range. Use to set stop distance — tighter than 1× ATR is usually noise.
ATR%ATR as a percent of price. Lets you compare volatility across different-priced tickers.
IVImplied Volatility. Options market forecast of future movement, annualized.
IVRIV Rank. Where current IV sits in its 52-week range. >50% = expensive premium. <30% = cheap.
EXPExpected Move ≈ price × IV × √(T/252). Setups need at least 1× EXP of room.
VOLToday's volume / 20-bar average. 1.0× normal, 1.3×+ breakout-quality, 2.0×+ climax.
CVDCumulative Volume Delta. Running sum of (buying − selling). Rising = accumulation.
DELTAPer-bar delta — buying minus selling on that single candle. Who won the bar.
BIASShort-term CVD direction. BULL = ticking up. BEAR = ticking down. FLAT = balanced.
ACCELCVD acceleration (second derivative). UP/DN = strong surge. Leads price 1–2 bars.
DIVDivergence between price and CVD. BULLISH (DIP) = price lower low, CVD held. BEARISH (RIP) = price higher high, CVD fell.
SQZSqueeze. ON = Bollinger Bands inside Keltner Channel. FIRED = just released. OFF = no compression.
STRENGTHPulse composite score −100 to +100. EMA stack + slope + macro + RSI distance from 50.
MACROPrice relative to the big EMA. BULL when above, BEAR when below.
TRENDTRIGGER label. Composite EMA-stack regime (BULL / BEAR / CHOP).
RANGEGrid channel regime. BULL FULL / BULL / BEAR FULL / BEAR / CHOP.
GRID: HOLDING BULLA buy arrow has fired and the trade is still working.
APE_MODETRIGGER mode. All triggers fire freely in both directions. Maximum frequency.
TREND_ONLYTRIGGER mode. Triggers only fire in the confirmed trend direction. CVD soft-gate active.
BREAKOUT / BREAKDOWNClose above 20-bar high (or below low) on volume >1.3× avg AND ATR expanding.
BUY DIP / SELL RIPPullback to the fast EMA in established trend with RSI curling back. Multi-bar tag-and-reclaim included.
RECLAIM BUY / SELLFailed swing stop-run reversal. Gold arrow up (long) / purple arrow down (short).
CONFLUENCE BUY / SELLHighest-conviction trigger. FLOW CVD + HM5 Exit Dot aligned. Cyan arrow up / deep orange arrow down.
TRAP SHORT / TRAP LONGFailed breakout/breakdown against macro trend. Fast mechanical reversal.
CHOPGray everywhere. No edge. The single biggest account-saver on the desk.
EXIT DOTSPurple dot ABOVE = exit longs. Green dot BELOW = exit shorts. Always fire both directions.
R / R-multipleTrade outcome expressed in units of risk. +2R = made 2× what you risked. −1R = stop hit.
Expectancy(Win % × Avg Win R) − (Loss % × Avg Loss R). Positive = system has an edge.
Profit FactorGross winning $ / gross losing $. Above 1.5 = healthy. Above 2.0 = excellent.