Reading an AI Trade Plan Card

Introduction

When you ask CoTrading's AI for a setup, it doesn't place a trade — it hands you a trade plan card. The card is a structured proposal you review and either approve or reject. This post walks through each field and how to read it critically.

Remember the boundary: the AI process has no order-placing permission. The card is a suggestion; the order only exists after your approval passes the deterministic risk checks.

The fields

Direction

Long or short. Ask yourself whether it agrees with the higher-timeframe structure you see on the chart. If the AI proposes a long against an obvious downtrend, that is a prompt to dig into the rationale, not to click faster.

Entry

The proposed entry price or zone. Check that it is actually reachable and that you are not chasing. A plan whose entry already passed while you were reading it should be rejected, not force-fit.

Stop-loss

Where the idea is invalidated. This is the most important field for capital protection. A stop should sit at a level that, if hit, genuinely means the thesis was wrong — not an arbitrary round number. If the stop is so wide that the loss would be uncomfortable, the plan is not for you.

Position size

How large the position is, sized against your risk settings. CoTrading computes size so that hitting the stop costs a bounded amount. If the number looks large relative to your account, revisit your per-trade cap.

Rationale

The AI's reasoning: the structure, indicators (BOLL, MACD, KDJ, Fibonacci levels), and context it used. Treat this as an argument to evaluate, not a verdict to accept. Good rationale is specific and falsifiable; vague rationale is a reason to reject.

How to approve with discipline

Approval is where discipline lives. The card exists precisely so that a fast, confident-sounding AI answer still has to pass a slow, human check before money moves.

What happens after you approve

Once you approve, the order still passes CoTrading's deterministic risk controls — daily-loss circuit breaker, consecutive-loss cooldown, and per-trade and per-account caps — which run locally as pure functions, outside the LLM. If a control trips, the order is blocked even though you approved it. That layer is a backstop, not a substitute for your judgment.

Rejecting is a valid outcome

Most good trading is waiting. Rejecting a plan costs nothing and is often the right call. The card makes "no" as easy as "yes" — by design.