House Rules

AlphaWhisper's gravity map shows you where price wants to go. House Rules tells you how to behave when you get there. The map gives you edge. These rules keep you alive long enough to use it.

1. Capital first. Edge second.

   Protect what you have before you try to grow it. No setup is worth blowing up the account that takes the next setup. Position size assumes you'll be wrong sometimes.

2. Trade the edges. Skip the middle.

   Fade reversals at WALLs, FLOORs, and KING magnets. The middle of the range has symmetric risk and no edge. If you're not at a structural level, you're guessing.

3. Asymmetric or pass.

   If the trade isn't at least 2:1 reward-to-risk from a clear structural level, don't take it. Win rate doesn't matter if you bleed on losses. R:R is the math that compounds.

4. Confluence beats conviction.

   A KING with a darkpool print at it, plus Index Sync agreement, plus price action confirming — that's a real setup. A KING alone is a hypothesis. Layer signals before you size up.

5. Don't fight reshuffles.

   When the map turns dirty (SHIFTING zone, >50% intraday shift), levels are unreliable. The right move is to pause. Re-engage when the structure settles. Patience compounds.

6. Honor calendar hazards.

   Expiry Distortion week (monthly OPEX), Liquidation Window (3:30 PM ET onward), earnings, FOMC — these distort positioning. Use lighter size or stand aside until clarity returns.

7. Long fear, short greed.

   Mean-revert at the extremes. Red candles into a FLOOR with positive GEX = buy. Green candles into a WALL with darkpool sellers = fade. The crowd is most wrong at the edges.

8. Size matches confidence.

   Top-quality setup (KING + sentinel + Index Sync + confirmation) = standard size. Single-signal setup = half size. Diverged or shifting = no size. Never max-size on hope.

9. Don't let a green trade go red.

   If a trade gets to 1R in your favor, move stop to breakeven. If it gets to 2R, take partial. Markets give back winners that aren't protected. The best loss is the one you avoid by exiting.

10. Walk away after impact.

    After a big win or a big loss, your judgment is compromised. Either way, the next trade is the most dangerous one. Step away. Come back when you're flat-minded.