Five setups, each with its own exit and veto rules

Environment: The index is not in a one-way decline, there is a clear leading sector, and it has an accepted leader stock.

Entry: Scale in when the pullback holds the prior day's average price and the intraday chart turns up on rising volume. The first tranche is no more than half of the planned size.

Exit: Exit below the prior day's low or on persistent weakness under the intraday average. Keep the day's loss within 0.5% of the account.

Veto: The sector is fading (more limit-down names) · Investigation or earnings blow-up · Too close to the limit-up price, which leaves no room to exit

A-shares settle T+1, so size for tomorrow's worst possible open.

Environment: A high-volume pre-market gap while index futures are not in panic.

Entry: Enter when the high of the first 5-minute bar breaks on volume.

Exit: Exit immediately on a return below the first 5-minute range.

Veto: Thin liquidity or wide spreads · A gap so large the news is already priced in · The catalyst is only a forum rumour

This setup moves fast. Practise exits in simulation first.

Environment: Price has traded in a range for 20+ days while volatility contracts.

Entry: Enter on a retest that holds the range top, not on the first breakout bar.

Exit: A close back inside the range marks a false breakout. Exit.

Veto: A major macro event within 24h · A breakout without volume · The macro radar is in the defend or stop tier

Better to miss the first leg than to buy a false breakout.

Environment: After a decline there is a panic-volume day, then the first valid green candle.

Entry: Take a small probe if the next day holds half of the green candle. Add only on confirmation.

Exit: A break below the green candle's low means the reversal failed.

Veto: The macro radar is still in the stop tier · The first green day has no volume · Your personal losing-streak stop has been triggered

Bottom-fishing loses the most money. Probe size only.

Environment: Price is in a clear 24h range and there is no major news.

Entry: After price spikes through the range edge and comes back inside, enter towards the middle of the range.

Exit: Exit if price moves back beyond the spike's extreme.

Veto: A macro data release window · The price feed is marked stale or delayed · Leverage above the practice limit

Crypto never closes. Automatic exits are mandatory.