How to know the session is over before your account tells you
The worst trades of the day usually arrive after the point where you should have already closed the platform.
Quality drops before P&L does
Late in a session your setup filter loosens: you take the B-grade version of the pattern, you widen a stop by a tick, you click something you would not have taken at the open. That degradation shows up in execution quality first and in the account second, which is why waiting for the account to tell you is expensive.
Three conditions, written before the open
A loss number — the daily figure that ends the session, not a figure you negotiate at the time. A count — two rule breaks of any kind and you are done, regardless of P&L. A clock — the hour past which you historically stop filtering well. When any one of them triggers, you flatten and close the platform for the day, no final trade.
The physical stop
Make stopping an action, not an intention: close the platform, stand up, leave the room for ten minutes. Then write one line about which condition triggered. If you stop well four sessions out of five for two weeks, you have installed it. If you break it, the next session runs at half size until three clean sessions rebuild the count.
Takeaway — Write the loss number, the rule-break count and the clock time before the open — then obey whichever arrives first.
Work it through with the Coach
Describe your last bad trade and it names the state, picks the protocol and gives you the exercise to run before your next session. Free to use.