How to Follow a Signal Correctly

Step 1: identify the product and clock

Start with the product, duration class, direction, and expiry. A Day Trade card cannot be treated like a Swing Trade card, and a Rapid card must be read from its own displayed duration.

Step 2: read the state and entry basis

Pending, near, open, confirmed, protected, and closed are different states. Some cards wait for a level; others engage after a qualifying event. Act only from the live card's displayed contract. Do not invent a universal entry-zone rule.

Step 3: decide whether the trade fits your risk

Vector Ridge does not choose your position size. Consider the active risk information, liquidity, event hazards, gaps, spread, and the possibility that your fill differs from the published research convention.

Step 4: follow current state, not stale fields

A manager update can replace an earlier risk state with protected logic. Re-read the current card after an alert. Do not keep following a retired level because it appeared in an earlier screenshot.

Step 5: respect the clock

Each product has a time boundary. Same-session cards do not become overnight ideas because a move is losing. Multi-day and overnight cards carry real gap and event risk by design.

Step 6: use the ledger for review

Evaluate the published outcome in the realized ledger, then compare it with your own fill separately. Do not substitute a static marketing statistic for the current record.