What Lazy Trader does
Use this page when the main question is not “which button do I press”, but “what role does Lazy Trader play in the workflow at all”.
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START AFTER menu
How Start After works as an arming layer for the plan and how it interacts with direction logic.
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The Start After menu is the gating system that stands between a valid bias and an actual entry. It tells Lazy Trader that even if the direction is known, the plan should still wait for a specific market event before the selected models are allowed to do anything.
That is why Start After is so important for structured execution. It can require a revisit of a particular level, a previous day or previous week high/low, an imbalance revisit, a swing-structure condition, a premium/discount condition, or a moving-average relationship. The logic is cumulative: if several conditions are enabled, all of them must be satisfied.
Even if Direction has already fixed the plan to long-only, short-only, or a dynamic bias, Start After can still demand extra structure, a 0.5 retracement, an imbalance / Fair Value Gap (FVG) touch, or direction alignment before models are truly allowed to search for entries.
Common Start After use cases
- Arm the plan only after price reaches a specific point of interest (POI) and produces the required reaction.
- Require a previous day or previous week liquidity visit before entries are allowed.
- Require the Start After swing to match the bias from Direction through the Swing plan direction condition.
- Require price to revisit the premium / discount zone of the active swing through the independent PD 0.5 toggle.
- Count an imbalance / Fair Value Gap (FVG) condition only inside the current rearm swing, and if needed only inside its premium or discount half.
Direction vs Start After
Direction answers “long or short”. Start After answers “not yet, wait for this event first”.
Keeping those two jobs separate is one of the cleanest ways to stop a good idea from firing too early.
Entry toggle is a one-time condition: once it is satisfied, the plan can stay armed. Most of the other toggles in this menu are persistent and must be satisfied again after the relevant structural update.
If an imbalance / Fair Value Gap (FVG) condition is satisfied once and the rearm swing has not changed, the condition can remain active until the next structural reset.
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PLAN menu
PLAN is the root canvas: it is where risk, entry/stop/take, and the links to every other menu become one executable scenario.
END AT menu
END AT defines when the plan stops looking for new positions, which is different from instantly flattening every already-open trade.
TIME menu
TIME is where session logic lives: windows, overnights, weekday permissions, daily close, Friday close, and broker-specific timing constraints.
Automatic direction detection
This section explains the combined logic of Direction plus Start After, which is where many users actually shape the market bias of the plan.
DIRECTION menu
Direction defines whether the plan is fixed long-only, fixed short-only, or dynamically biased through box, MA, or swing logic.
MODELS menu
Models are the executable entry modules inside the plan, and the menu is built to let many different model types coexist under one scenario.
STATUS canvas
Status canvas merges Direction, Start After, End At, Time, and Models into one live state map, so you can see what is aligned, what is still pending, and why the plan is running or waiting.
Position Manager
Position Manager gives each open trade its own chart-level button and lets you adjust takes, breakeven, stop-loss, and level sizing without leaving the Lazy Trader workflow.
Base config
Base config is the shared risk and management layer that sits under each model and keeps model-specific logic from drifting into risk chaos.
Box-Fractal model
Box-Fractal uses a confirmed fractal range as the structural base for entry and stop placement rather than entering at the first raw extremum.
Larry-Williams model
Larry-Williams works with range extremes and supports both direct breakout continuation and return-entry logic after a raid back into the range.
Classic Structure family
Classic Structure is the shared logic layer for three related pages: trend continuation, primary liquidity sweep, and reversal structure.
Classic Structure Trend
Classic Trend participates on a pullback inside the active structure without requiring the structure direction itself to flip.
Classic Structure via primary liquidity sweep
This variation opens on the first important structural violation and reads it as a sweep rather than as a full structural reversal.
Classic Structure Reversal
Classic Reversal becomes relevant only when structure itself turns; it is not just a pullback model with a different stop.
Moving Averages model
The MA model does more than “touch the fast average”: it also validates the nearest eligible fractal to the left before opening.
Balanced Price Range (BPR)
BPR is the imbalance-compression model: it works with the overlap between opposite inefficiencies and lets you choose how deep into that balance zone entry should happen.
Strategy optimization and tester workflow
Optimization is where the guide stops being descriptive and becomes operational: save several plan configs, iterate them in the tester, and read the journal by model contribution.