Before you click
Crypto session checklist
24/7 tape. Venue can halt. Funding can grind you. Name the object before you size. Education only. Not a broker. Not a signal.
Object
What are you actually trading?
Spot coin, linear perp, inverse perp, or an options gimmick. If you cannot say it in one sentence, you do not trade it this session.
Clock
There is no close.
Crypto does not give you an equity-style close. Gaps still happen on venue outages. Decide your max time in the trade before you click, not after funding prints.
Risk cap
A dollar amount, not a story.
Account × 1% (or your written cap) is the max loss if the stop fills. Size with the risk calculator. If the stop is too wide for one unit, skip. Do not round up.
Invalidation
Write the price that proves you wrong.
A vibe is not invalidation. The level is. Place the stop where the idea is dead, then size to that distance. A liquidation price is not a stop.
No-trade
Sit on your hands.
Unknown venue, no withdrawal test, chasing a 20% candle, or stacking a perp on top of an already open loser. Those are no-trade. Paper is allowed. Live size is not.
Lab
Open the calculator with the example already filled. Change the numbers. Then size your own ticket — or skip.
Risk calculator — 1% of $10k Crypto courses →Log fills already taken in the browser journal or the Windows journal. A screenshot is not a record.