What is a confluence score?

Confluence is how many independent reasons agree with your trade idea. Each condition in the checklist carries a weight; the score is the weight you toggled on divided by the maximum possible for your direction, as a percent. More aligned conditions, higher score.

How is the letter grade calculated?

Fixed bands on the total score: 90% or more is A+, 80–89 is A, 70–79 is B, 60–69 is C, 50–59 is D, and below 50 is F. The bands are the same for every profile, so grades stay comparable across playbooks.

What makes a trade “not tradeable”?

Two things: scoring below the profile's tradeable threshold, or leaving any required condition unchecked. Required items are non-negotiables like having a stop loss set; they gate the verdict no matter how high the score is.

Why can I still save a trade that is not tradeable?

Because the data is valuable. The save is tagged as a discipline breach, and the journal shows how breach trades perform against clean ones. Most traders find that comparison more persuasive than a hard lock they would just work around.

Why do Buy and Sell show different conditions?

Setups are directional: a bullish engulfing close means nothing for a short. Conditions apply to buys, sells, or both, and the checklist plus its maximum score adapt to the side you picked.

Where is my trade history stored?

In your browser's localStorage, on your device, under keys starting with scuta. Nothing is sent to a server, there is no account, and clearing site data deletes it. Use Export to download a JSON backup, and Import to restore it or move to another machine.

What is an R-multiple?

Your result measured in units of initial risk. Risking $100 and making $250 is +2.5R; losing the full risk is −1R. Logging R instead of dollars makes trades of different sizes comparable, and the journal's cumulative R curve shows whether the playbook earns more than it loses.

How many trades before the journal means anything?

Treat anything under about 20 decided trades as noise. Per-rule win rates only display once a condition has appeared in at least 5 decided trades, and even then a few more results can move the number a lot. Look for stable patterns, not one-off readings.

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Trade Checklist

Score confluence against a weighted playbook. Required boxes can veto the ticket even if the letter grade looks fine.

Illustrative only. Outputs are not forecasts, fills, or advice. Risk disclosures

Trader profile

Direction

Buy and sell setups differ. Each side keeps its own toggles, so switch freely.

Risk

Market context

Setup

Discipline

Confluence score

F0%

0 / 88 pts · threshold 60%

Required: Stop-loss defined, Size computed in R, Daily / weekly rail intact, Session is on the page, Spread inside the cap

You can still save. It will be tagged as a discipline breach in your journal.

0%FNot tradeable

Edit the playbookSCUTA defaultProfiles, sections, weights, required flags, thresholds and the side each condition scores for (buy, sell or both) live in this JSON.

{
  "version": 2,
  "name": "SCUTA Core Playbook",
  "profiles": [
    {
      "id": "scalper",
      "name": "Scalper",
      "description": "Seconds to minutes. Spread, tape speed and the session decide whether there is a trade at all.",
      "threshold": 60,
      "sections": [
        {
          "id": "risk",
          "name": "Risk",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "stop-defined",
              "label": "Stop-loss defined",
              "detail": "Invalidation is a price or a written time stop, placed before size is chosen.",
              "weight": 10,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "size-in-r",
              "label": "Size computed in R",
              "detail": "Quantity comes from allowed cash risk and stop distance — not from a round-number habit.",
              "weight": 10,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "no-rail-breach",
              "label": "Daily / weekly rail intact",
              "detail": "Taking this ticket cannot put the desk through a written loss limit.",
              "weight": 10,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "context",
          "name": "Market context",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "session-allowed",
              "label": "Session is on the page",
              "detail": "This hour is one the playbook actually staffs.",
              "weight": 8,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "spread-ok",
              "label": "Spread inside the cap",
              "detail": "Quoted spread is at or below the max written for this instrument and hour.",
              "weight": 8,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "tape-speed",
              "label": "Tape speed is tradeable",
              "detail": "You can still apply the rules at this pace; you are not guessing in a blur.",
              "weight": 5,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "event-posture",
              "label": "Event posture written",
              "detail": "If a release is near, you already chose flat, reduced size, or a named event setup.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "setup",
          "name": "Setup",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "structure-clear",
              "label": "Structure is named",
              "detail": "You can say in one sentence whether this is trend continuation or mean return.",
              "weight": 7,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "level-planned-buy",
              "label": "Buying at a level marked in advance",
              "detail": "Support, a reclaimed level or a pullback zone was on the chart before the impulse that tempted the click.",
              "weight": 7,
              "required": false,
              "side": "buy"
            },
            {
              "id": "level-planned-sell",
              "label": "Selling at a level marked in advance",
              "detail": "Resistance, a lost level or a rally zone was on the chart before the impulse that tempted the click.",
              "weight": 7,
              "required": false,
              "side": "sell"
            },
            {
              "id": "target-mapped",
              "label": "Target or scale plan mapped",
              "detail": "You know where the idea is complete, even if you manage dynamically later.",
              "weight": 5,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "discipline",
          "name": "Discipline",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "not-repair",
              "label": "Not a repair ticket",
              "detail": "This click is not trying to undo the last result.",
              "weight": 8,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "checklist-calm",
              "label": "Body is calm enough to score honestly",
              "detail": "You can uncheck boxes. If you cannot, you are already late.",
              "weight": 4,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "day-trader",
      "name": "Day trader",
      "description": "Flat by the close. Adds higher-timeframe context and book correlation to the scalper's gates.",
      "threshold": 60,
      "sections": [
        {
          "id": "risk",
          "name": "Risk",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "stop-defined",
              "label": "Stop-loss defined",
              "detail": "Invalidation is a price or a written time stop, placed before size is chosen.",
              "weight": 10,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "size-in-r",
              "label": "Size computed in R",
              "detail": "Quantity comes from allowed cash risk and stop distance — not from a round-number habit.",
              "weight": 10,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "no-rail-breach",
              "label": "Daily / weekly rail intact",
              "detail": "Taking this ticket cannot put the desk through a written loss limit.",
              "weight": 10,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "correlation-checked",
              "label": "Book correlation checked",
              "detail": "This ticket is not a hidden second helping of an open idea.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "context",
          "name": "Market context",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "session-allowed",
              "label": "Session is on the page",
              "detail": "This hour is one the playbook actually staffs.",
              "weight": 8,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "spread-ok",
              "label": "Spread inside the cap",
              "detail": "Quoted spread is at or below the max written for this instrument and hour.",
              "weight": 8,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "tape-speed",
              "label": "Tape speed is tradeable",
              "detail": "You can still apply the rules at this pace; you are not guessing in a blur.",
              "weight": 5,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "event-posture",
              "label": "Event posture written",
              "detail": "If a release is near, you already chose flat, reduced size, or a named event setup.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "htf-aligned-buy",
              "label": "Higher timeframe supports the long",
              "detail": "The context clock is rising or holding a range floor, or you are explicitly fading with a range rule.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "buy"
            },
            {
              "id": "htf-aligned-sell",
              "label": "Higher timeframe supports the short",
              "detail": "The context clock is falling or capping at a range ceiling, or you are explicitly fading with a range rule.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "sell"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "setup",
          "name": "Setup",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "structure-clear",
              "label": "Structure is named",
              "detail": "You can say in one sentence whether this is trend continuation or mean return.",
              "weight": 7,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "level-planned-buy",
              "label": "Buying at a level marked in advance",
              "detail": "Support, a reclaimed level or a pullback zone was on the chart before the impulse that tempted the click.",
              "weight": 7,
              "required": false,
              "side": "buy"
            },
            {
              "id": "level-planned-sell",
              "label": "Selling at a level marked in advance",
              "detail": "Resistance, a lost level or a rally zone was on the chart before the impulse that tempted the click.",
              "weight": 7,
              "required": false,
              "side": "sell"
            },
            {
              "id": "target-mapped",
              "label": "Target or scale plan mapped",
              "detail": "You know where the idea is complete, even if you manage dynamically later.",
              "weight": 5,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "discipline",
          "name": "Discipline",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "not-repair",
              "label": "Not a repair ticket",
              "detail": "This click is not trying to undo the last result.",
              "weight": 8,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "checklist-calm",
              "label": "Body is calm enough to score honestly",
              "detail": "You can uncheck boxes. If you cannot, you are already late.",
              "weight": 4,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "swing-trader",
      "name": "Swing trader",
      "description": "Days to weeks. Drops the spread and tape checks; adds overnight and gap risk.",
      "threshold": 60,
      "sections": [
        {
          "id": "risk",
          "name": "Risk",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "stop-defined",
              "label": "Stop-loss defined",
              "detail": "Invalidation is a price or a written time stop, placed before size is chosen.",
              "weight": 10,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "size-in-r",
              "label": "Size computed in R",
              "detail": "Quantity comes from allowed cash risk and stop distance — not from a round-number habit.",
              "weight": 10,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "no-rail-breach",
              "label": "Daily / weekly rail intact",
              "detail": "Taking this ticket cannot put the desk through a written loss limit.",
              "weight": 10,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "correlation-checked",
              "label": "Book correlation checked",
              "detail": "This ticket is not a hidden second helping of an open idea.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "overnight-ok",
              "label": "Overnight / gap risk accepted",
              "detail": "If the swing will be held across a session break, that risk is chosen, not accidental.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "context",
          "name": "Market context",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "session-allowed",
              "label": "Session is on the page",
              "detail": "This hour is one the playbook actually staffs.",
              "weight": 8,
              "required": true,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "event-posture",
              "label": "Event posture written",
              "detail": "If a release is near, you already chose flat, reduced size, or a named event setup.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "htf-aligned-buy",
              "label": "Higher timeframe supports the long",
              "detail": "The context clock is rising or holding a range floor, or you are explicitly fading with a range rule.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "buy"
            },
            {
              "id": "htf-aligned-sell",
              "label": "Higher timeframe supports the short",
              "detail": "The context clock is falling or capping at a range ceiling, or you are explicitly fading with a range rule.",
              "weight": 6,
              "required": false,
              "side": "sell"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "setup",
          "name": "Setup",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "structure-clear",
              "label": "Structure is named",
              "detail": "You can say in one sentence whether this is trend continuation or mean return.",
              "weight": 7,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "level-planned-buy",
              "label": "Buying at a level marked in advance",
              "detail": "Support, a reclaimed level or a pullback zone was on the chart before the impulse that tempted the click.",
              "weight": 7,
              "required": false,
              "side": "buy"
            },
            {
              "id": "level-planned-sell",
              "label": "Selling at a level marked in advance",
              "detail": "Resistance, a lost level or a rally zone was on the chart before the impulse that tempted the click.",
              "weight": 7,
              "required": false,
              "side": "sell"
            },
            {
              "id": "target-mapped",
              "label": "Target or scale plan mapped",
              "detail": "You know where the idea is complete, even if you manage dynamically later.",
              "weight": 5,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": "discipline",
          "name": "Discipline",
          "conditions": [
            {
              "id": "not-repair",
              "label": "Not a repair ticket",
              "detail": "This click is not trying to undo the last result.",
              "weight": 8,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            },
            {
              "id": "checklist-calm",
              "label": "Body is calm enough to score honestly",
              "detail": "You can uncheck boxes. If you cannot, you are already late.",
              "weight": 4,
              "required": false,
              "side": "both"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Questions this tool usually raises

What is a confluence score?: Confluence is how many independent reasons agree with your trade idea. Each condition in the checklist carries a weight; the score is the weight you toggled on divided by the maximum possible for your direction, as a percent. More aligned conditions, higher score.
$\text{score} = \dfrac{\sum \text{checked weight}}{\sum \text{weight for your direction}} \times 100$
How is the letter grade calculated?: Fixed bands on the total score: 90% or more is A+, 80–89 is A, 70–79 is B, 60–69 is C, 50–59 is D, and below 50 is F. The bands are the same for every profile, so grades stay comparable across playbooks.
What makes a trade “not tradeable”?: Two things: scoring below the profile's tradeable threshold, or leaving any required condition unchecked. Required items are non-negotiables like having a stop loss set; they gate the verdict no matter how high the score is.
Why can I still save a trade that is not tradeable?: Because the data is valuable. The save is tagged as a discipline breach, and the journal shows how breach trades perform against clean ones. Most traders find that comparison more persuasive than a hard lock they would just work around.
Why do Buy and Sell show different conditions?: Setups are directional: a bullish engulfing close means nothing for a short. Conditions apply to buys, sells, or both, and the checklist plus its maximum score adapt to the side you picked.
Where is my trade history stored?: In your browser's localStorage, on your device, under keys starting with scuta. Nothing is sent to a server, there is no account, and clearing site data deletes it. Use Export to download a JSON backup, and Import to restore it or move to another machine.
What is an R-multiple?: Your result measured in units of initial risk. Risking $100 and making $250 is +2.5R; losing the full risk is −1R. Logging R instead of dollars makes trades of different sizes comparable, and the journal's cumulative R curve shows whether the playbook earns more than it loses.
How many trades before the journal means anything?: Treat anything under about 20 decided trades as noise. Per-rule win rates only display once a condition has appeared in at least 5 decided trades, and even then a few more results can move the number a lot. Look for stable patterns, not one-off readings.

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