Day 36 — Decisions · ZeroOne Systems

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Day 36 — Decisions

Mapped 22 decision points in my SOP today. The two-branch ones were easy. The third branch — what if the condition itself can't be evaluated — is where the real work was.

Example: my agent sizes positions from my exchange balance. If the exchange API is down, the obvious answer is "skip that check." The right answer turned out to be: send no alerts at all, on any ticker. If the agent can't see my open positions, it must not add more.

That became the global rule: fail closed. No trade card unless every check passed. I act on these alerts blind from my phone — a card missing one check looks exactly as trustworthy as a complete one.

Second thing that hit me: 7 of my 8 uncertain decisions are just numbers I don't know yet. How many confluences make a level valid? How many candles before I call a setup dead? I flagged them instead of guessing.

They all get answered by the same thing — the trade journal I haven't built properly yet.

Writing the SOP found my bottleneck for me.

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Day 36 — Decisions