Write the morning while you are still a civilian
Pre-market intent, timestamped, is the only fair thing to grade the close against.
At 08:50 you are a reasonable person with opinions. At 14:20, three trades into a red day, you are someone else entirely.
The morning card exists to preserve the first person’s instructions.
What goes on the card
Bias, a short focus list, a loss limit in rupees, and which of your own rules you are committing to today. Four fields, ninety seconds, before the pre-open ends.
Write the card before 09:15 IST. Everything after that is influenced by the tape.
A reminder is not a recommendation
A nudge to fill in the ritual is a product prompt. The focus list is yours; nothing in the app is telling you those names are worth trading, and it should never read that way.
Blank days are findings
A skipped ritual on a day you still traded is itself information. Leave it blank. Backfilling five days on Sunday to preserve a streak is a small lie that makes every correlation you run afterwards useless.
Sample sizes are small; treat this as a prompt to read the notes, not as a rule. Illustrative journal data, not a live book and not a performance claim.
Key takeaways
- Write intent before the open, in four short fields.
- The focus list is yours, not a vendor’s pick.
- Leave skipped rituals blank instead of backfilling.
Not advice, not a call. NiyataBook is a personal trading journal, not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst. Everything above looks backwards at trades that already closed. What happened in a book does not promise what happens next, and F&O can take a year’s savings in a week.