Size, risk/reward, break-even win rate, liquidation distance and live funding cost — the five numbers professionals check, computed together, with a structure verdict before you press buy.
USE A LIVE PRICE
Risk first ($ you're willing to lose), then stop (where the idea is wrong), then size (derived — never chosen), then reward (is it worth it?), then structure (can leverage mechanics kill the plan before the idea plays out?). This screen forces that order. If you find yourself adjusting the stop to get a bigger size, you've reversed it — that's the sizing discipline failing in real time, and the honest fix is a smaller trade, not a nearer stop.
The structure check validates the container, not the idea: a plan can pass every check and still lose — that's trading. What a passing grade means is that the loss will be the planned 1%, not the account.
Planning after entering. Every number here is cheap before the trade and expensive after. Ignoring the liquidation buffer: if your stop sits close to your liquidation price, slippage plus funding drift can convert a planned −1R into a total margin loss. Treating the verdict as a signal: it grades structure, never direction — direction is your job, and the journal is the only judge of that.