Feature Launch — June 16, 2026

Playbooks: Know Which Edge the Day Is Asking For — Before the Open

Most traders don’t blow up because their edges are bad. They blow up taking the right setup on the wrong day — fading a trend on a runaway-gap morning, sizing into chop an hour before FOMC, forcing a breakout play in a dead range. Knowing your edges isn’t enough. You have to know which one the day is actually asking for. That’s what Playbooks does.

A decision layer above your edges

Your edges describe how you trade a setup. A playbook describes when to reach for it. You map a market condition or a calendar event to one of your own edges — by name — or to “stand aside”:

• Ranging day → Reversal. When the market is rotating, your mean-reversion edge is the one that pays.
• Trending day → Continuation (with Reversal as a named alternative). Trade with the trend; know your backup.
• FOMC → stand aside. Some days the highest-EV decision is no decision at all.

The recommendation is always one of your edges, by name — not generic advice. EdgeLock classifies each edge into an archetype (continuation, breakout, reversal, range-fade) so the routing reasons about the day correctly, but what it hands you is the specific edge you actually trade.

It reads the calendar so you don’t have to remember

Before the open, the new Playbooks tab in Pre-Market checks two things: the market condition you’re expecting, and the day’s economic calendar — FOMC, CPI, NFP, central-bank pressers, bank holidays. It resolves your playbooks into a single recommendation for the session. Calendar-event playbooks outrank condition playbooks, so a CPI print never gets quietly overruled by “it looks rangey.” Lower-priority matches surface underneath as alternatives, not noise.

A recommendation, never an autopilot

Playbooks never places a trade. It surfaces the edge the day favors and gets out of your way. The highest-priority rule for the condition becomes the default; everything else shows up as a named alternative you can reach for. The judgment stays yours — Playbooks just makes sure you walk into the session having already decided how you’ll respond, instead of improvising at 9:30.

Standing aside is a trade

The most profitable thing you do on an FOMC morning is often nothing. The problem is that standing aside leaves no trade to journal, so it never shows up in your stats — and what you can’t measure, you can’t hold yourself to. Playbooks captures the stand-aside decision at the day level: it asks whether you actually stayed flat, and records it. For the first time you can answer the question honestly — what do FOMC days actually cost me when I don’t obey my own rule?

It measures whether you followed it

Every trade can be tagged with the playbook it came from, then grouped in your stats by playbook and by edge. That turns a vague intention into a number: obeyed-the-playbook P&L versus broke-it P&L, win rate when you traded the recommended edge versus when you went off-script. Adherence stops being a feeling and becomes a line in the report.

Build one in a conversation

If you’ve connected your AI — Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or Grok — there’s a guided playbook_create prompt that walks you through it. It can look back through your own trade history and point out which conditions and events actually deserve a playbook, suggest the archetype for each edge, and write the whole thing for you to confirm. You can also build and manage playbooks by hand in the Pre-Market tab.

Available on Edge AI — with a free preview

Playbooks is part of Edge AI. Every account — including free — sees a live FOMC stand-aside example in the Pre-Market Playbooks tab, pulling the real economic calendar, so you can see exactly how it resolves before you upgrade. Early adopter pricing is still locked for life on the homepage.