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.
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.
What the status canvas keeps in one place
What you can read about models directly in status
What expanded blocks let you inspect
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.
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”.
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 defines when the plan stops looking for new positions, which is different from instantly flattening every already-open trade.
TIME is where session logic lives: windows, overnights, weekday permissions, daily close, Friday close, and broker-specific timing constraints.
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 defines whether the plan is fixed long-only, fixed short-only, or dynamically biased through box, MA, or swing logic.
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.
Models are the executable entry modules inside the plan, and the menu is built to let many different model types coexist under one scenario.
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 is the shared risk and management layer that sits under each model and keeps model-specific logic from drifting into risk chaos.
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 works with range extremes and supports both direct breakout continuation and return-entry logic after a raid back into the range.
Classic Structure is the shared logic layer for three related pages: trend continuation, primary liquidity sweep, and reversal structure.
Classic Trend participates on a pullback inside the active structure without requiring the structure direction itself to flip.
This variation opens on the first important structural violation and reads it as a sweep rather than as a full structural reversal.
Classic Reversal becomes relevant only when structure itself turns; it is not just a pullback model with a different stop.
The MA model does more than “touch the fast average”: it also validates the nearest eligible fractal to the left before opening.
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.
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.