The daily routine: check in, trade, close the day
Luxabit's daily routine: read your own plan before the session, see your day against your own limits, close the day with a reflection, and build a streak and a discipline heatmap.
Most rules are broken on days that started without a plan. The daily routine gives every trading day the same three steps: check in before you trade, follow your day against your own rules, and close the day with a short look back. You find it under Daily routine in the app. It is part of every plan, including the free one.
1. Check in
Before your session you see your own trading plan in one place: your playbooks, limits, trading hours and rules. Checking in means:
- Confirming you read your plan. Without a plan there is nothing to read, and the routine asks you to write one.
- Deciding whether you trade today. Choosing No trading today is part of the routine too: the day still counts toward your streak.
- Your focus from 1 (scattered) to 5 (sharp), if you want to note it.
- What you will pay attention to today, in up to 280 characters, for example "no entries in the first 15 minutes".
You can change your check-in during the day.
2. Trade
During the day the routine shows how many trades you opened and how many losses you closed, next to your own daily limits from your plan. In prop firm mode it also shows how much room is left before your daily loss limit and maximum drawdown. When you reach one of them, it says so. Below that are the trades you opened today with their Discipline Score, the score of the day and the rules you did not follow today. Trades come from your journal, including those imported from your exchange.
3. Close the day
At the end of the day you close it, with a reflection of up to 2,000 characters if you like: what went well in your process, and what you will do differently next time. You can close the day only after checking in. Want to trade again after closing? Reopen the day, and close it again for it to count.
Reminders
Luxabit can remind you with a notification on your phone or computer:
- to check in, on your routine days, as long as you haven't checked in yet;
- to close the day, when you checked in but haven't closed the day yet.
Turn them on under Reminders on the routine page; your browser asks whether Luxabit may show notifications. Once they are on, the card folds to a one-line summary; tap it to change the times or turn them off. Reminders are turned on per device, and the times apply to all of them. They start at 08:30 and 21:00 in the timezone of your trading plan; change them, or leave a time empty to turn that reminder off. Each reminder comes at most once a day, within 60 minutes after its time.
On an iPhone or iPad, notifications work once Luxabit is on your home screen: tap the share button in Safari and choose Add to Home Screen, then open Luxabit from there. On Android and on a computer they work in the browser. To stop them, choose Turn off on this device or block notifications for Luxabit in your browser.
Your streak
Your streak counts the days in a row on which you checked in and closed the day. It counts your routine, not your results: a day with a losing trade counts just as much as a winning one, and so does a day you chose not to trade.
- Routine days decide what breaks a streak. By default these are Monday to Friday; you can change them on the routine page. A missed routine day ends your streak. Other days are skipped, and a routine you finish on one of them still counts.
- Today never breaks your streak while the day is still going.
- You can only check in and close today, in the timezone of your trading plan. Earlier days cannot be filled in afterwards.
Next to your current streak you see your longest one.
The heatmap
The heatmap shows the last 18 weeks, one square per day. The colour is the average Discipline Score of the trades you opened that day:
| Square | Discipline Score that day |
|---|---|
| Empty (grey) | no trades |
| Lightest orange | 0–59 |
| Orange 2 | 60–89 |
| Orange 3 | 90–99 |
| Darkest orange | 100 |
A dot in a square means you finished your routine that day. Faded grey squares are days that are not routine days. Hover over or tap a square to see the date, the number of trades and the score.
Darker means you followed more of your own rules, never that you made more money. See Process vs. outcome.
What the routine does not do
The routine never tells you whether or what to trade, and it does not judge your results. Every number it shows comes from your own plan and your own journal. Your check-ins and reflections are stored with your account and are deleted with it; see Your account and data.