The "2-Loss and Walk Away" Rule

[FXS Prop Desk]

Defining a bad trade by structure and time rather than P&L fits a scratch-heavy approach well. The way to keep that honest is to write the maximum hold time for each setup in the plan (for example "sweep entry: 3 M1 bars to show displacement, otherwise out") and log the actual hold time next to every ticket.

After a month you can sort losers by "held past limit: yes/no". If most of the losing R comes from tickets that overstayed, the fix is execution, not the setup. That's much more actionable than looking at a red day and wondering whether the strategy stopped working. It also makes the 15-minute "bail-out" hope visible in numbers.