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Documenting my warm-up routine before London under prop constraints

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LondonScalper
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Documenting my warm-up routine before London under prop constraints

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Warm-up before London under prop constraints is shorter and stricter than on personal capital.

Prop rules punish sloppy first clicks. My warm-up is not meditation theatre — it is a checklist: calendar, spread filter, max R for the morning, and whether the firm’s overnight inventory rules leave me free to trade the open at all.

Warm-up under prop
  • Confirm flat / allowed to trade before cash open
  • Write the first A+ level only — no shopping list of five hopes
  • Size from the prop ladder, not from yesterday’s personal account habit
If the checklist is incomplete at open, I watch. Missing the first drive beats starting the day already negotiating with a rule breach.

What does your pre-London warm-up look like when a prop rulebook is in the room?

Warm-up ends with one sentence written: Today I am allowed to trade X with max YR. If I cannot finish the sentence, the platform stays flat until I can. Prop mornings punish vague intention harder than personal accounts do.

If prop news rules already force flat into a window that morning, the warm-up includes confirming that constraint in writing.
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