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
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.