The CIX Trading Rules

1. Write the decision before the entry

Name the asset, pair, evidence, invalidation, position size and planned exit. If your reason is only urgency or someone else’s confidence, the research is incomplete.

2. Set exposure from a loss you can absorb

Account size, risk budget, exit distance and execution costs belong in the calculation. A percentage copied from another trader cannot decide what is appropriate for you. Correlated trades can increase your total exposure to the same move.

3. Choose the order for the situation

The archive contains both patient limit-order methods and more urgent execution advice. Neither is universally best. A market order prioritises execution but not price certainty. A limit order controls the acceptable price but may not fill.

4. Do not chase or average without a rule

A missed entry is not a debt the market owes you. Adding to a losing trade must not be an improvised attempt to avoid taking a loss. Reassess the thesis and total exposure.

5. Keep both wins and losses

Record all attempts, costs, partial fills and cancelled plans. A strategy cannot be evaluated from selected winners or a compounding table that assumes every trade succeeds.

6. Pause when the process breaks

Choose a loss, time or behaviour threshold that triggers a review. A pause is useful after overtrading, a losing streak or a run of wins that tempts you to ignore your rules.

7. Stay willing to change your view

Holding for the long term does not mean ignoring evidence. Define what would make you exit or reconsider, then check those conditions consistently.

Your exercise: turn one rule into a journal field you can check after every decision. For example: “Was my invalidation written before entry?”

Source: Trading rules for Crypto-Forex-stocks and the early risk-management messages in the supplied CIX archive. Conflicting and overly absolute statements were revised. Primary reference for order types. Educational edition, 20 September 2026.