Research can take its time; trade execution can't. The order that shouldn't go out may have been approved by exactly the human in charge. Who blocks it?
Make execution discipline a hard gate in the process, not a matter of self-restraint: recalculate market state on an intraday schedule, and when the state flips, automatically block the day's pending orders. Critical actions get a second gate — CIO sign-off — so unsigned changes never reach production, and even a verbal veto must propagate to the execution layer.
Reminder-driven intraday recalculation of timing indicators; a state flip blocks pending orders with the reasoning attached.
The last signature before execution: can veto, can't be bypassed; vetoes must land in execution-layer configuration.
Executes only orders that passed both gates, with a full audit trail throughout.
Rules for trade execution:
A human approves the day's candidate buys per the pre-market plan.
Scheduled reminders drive @risk-gate to recompute market state mid-session; it detects an indicator flip.
The buys approved that day get blocked automatically with the reasoning stated; the market weakens that day, proving the block right — with zero human involvement throughout.
After one process incident where a verbal veto never reached the execution layer, the team stands up a three-layer CIO sign-off gate in minutes.
Three days after going live, the gate's first real action: it blocks by default a swap selling a heavily-in-profit position for a low-scoring new name; pulling the thread exposes two flaws in the trigger definition, and the human ultimately decides to shut the feature off entirely.
Market state recomputed on schedule during trading sessions; a flip triggers a block.
Every block converts to a task automatically: after the close, verify whether the block was right.
Periodically reconcile execution-layer configuration with the decision ledger, so verbal rules can't drift.
Write approval expiry into the order structure: stale approvals void automatically instead of relying on memory.
Track false-block statistics: a gate too tight and a gate too loose both need data behind them.
Shutting off a critical feature means physical removal plus recurrence checks, not commenting it out.