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STATUS canvas

How the STATUS canvas turns the current trading-plan state into one live panel that refreshes with the chart and explains what Lazy Trader is still waiting for.

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STATUS canvas is the live summary of the current trade plan. It refreshes together with the chart and shows what the configuration is doing right now: which layers are already aligned, which ones are still pending, and which models are actually active.

Instead of cross-checking Direction, Start After, End At, Time, and Models manually, the status canvas keeps them in one operational view. That is especially useful in live work and in visual tester mode: the plan does not just expose the final state, it explains why the state is what it is.

Almost every block can be expanded, inspected in detail, and used to show or hide its conditions on the chart. That makes status a working control layer rather than a decorative summary.

STATUS canvas in Lazy Trader
The status canvas refreshes in real time together with the chart.

What the status canvas keeps in one place

  • The current data coming from Direction, Start After, End At, Time, and Models.
  • A clear label for what is selected in each section and which direction it is currently supporting.
  • Which conditions are already satisfied and which ones are still blocking the scenario.
  • The combined plan state: whether the setup can already search for entries, is actively running, or still has to wait.

What you can read about models directly in status

  • Model visualization, baseline characteristics, and the direction in which the model is currently allowed to work.
  • How many models are open simultaneously under this config, how many total openings it has produced, and the current plus combined PnL attached to it.
  • What the model is seeing right now: projected entries under lows, inside BPR, around structure, and in other supported scenarios.
  • If you add another model element and save it, it appears in status immediately with its own stats; structural models behave the same way and keep their own visualization and detail layer.

What expanded blocks let you inspect

  • In Direction, multi-timeframe structure is easy to verify: once a new timeframe is added and saved, it appears in status immediately, and a toggle lets you show or hide both swing pairs on the chart.
  • The same applies to Start After: for example, if the condition uses moving averages, status shows the active MA setup right away and lets you turn its chart display on or off.
  • End At and Time also label the active condition, so you can see which stop rule or schedule filter currently controls the plan.

How status explains WAIT

If shorts are enabled in the plan but the model direction and/or Start After conditions are still not aligned, status does not hide that mismatch.

Instead, it switches to WAIT and tells you what is still missing, for example an MA flip or a structural-direction confirmation.

That is the real value of the status canvas: every part of the current trading plan stays visible and updates together with the chart.

Break the status canvas back into source layers

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.

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DIRECTION menu

Direction defines whether the plan is fixed long-only, fixed short-only, or dynamically biased through box, MA, or swing logic.

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START AFTER menu

Start After does not pick the side of the trade; it defines what must happen before the plan is allowed to begin evaluating entries at all.

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TIME menu

TIME is where session logic lives: windows, overnights, weekday permissions, daily close, Friday close, and broker-specific timing constraints.

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END AT menu

END AT defines when the plan stops looking for new positions, which is different from instantly flattening every already-open trade.

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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.

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Next: managing an already open position

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.

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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.

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Other Lazy Trader sections

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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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.

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END AT menu

END AT defines when the plan stops looking for new positions, which is different from instantly flattening every already-open trade.

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TIME menu

TIME is where session logic lives: windows, overnights, weekday permissions, daily close, Friday close, and broker-specific timing constraints.

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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.

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DIRECTION menu

Direction defines whether the plan is fixed long-only, fixed short-only, or dynamically biased through box, MA, or swing logic.

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START AFTER menu

Start After does not pick the side of the trade; it defines what must happen before the plan is allowed to begin evaluating entries at all.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Classic Structure family

Classic Structure is the shared logic layer for three related pages: trend continuation, primary liquidity sweep, and reversal structure.

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Classic Structure Trend

Classic Trend participates on a pullback inside the active structure without requiring the structure direction itself to flip.

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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.

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Classic Structure Reversal

Classic Reversal becomes relevant only when structure itself turns; it is not just a pullback model with a different stop.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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