# How a trade idea is built, step by step

Source: https://tactiq.pro/docs/trade-workflow · Trading ideas · updated 2026-10-31

How a trade idea is built, step by step: context, location, trigger, risk, targets, management and review, and which Tactiq tool answers each step.

1. **Context.** Read the Flag on the higher timeframe and the Direction in an idea's evidence or the daily map. Decide the side you allow, or decide not to trade.
2. **Location.** Find the Area: a heavy or flow zone, a wall in the heatmap, a level. Prime and strong Areas have more than one reason. Do not trade from the middle of nowhere.
3. **Trigger.** Wait for a closed candle that shows something there: a rejection, an acceptance, or absorbed aggression.
4. **Risk.** Put the stop where the idea is wrong. Check that costs are a small part of the risk.
5. **Targets.** Use the next real references. The ideas Tactiq raises take part at TP1 and protect the rest.
6. **Manage.** Read "Changes if". Tactiq's ideas reduce risk when a flag appears against them or the regime starts to tire.
7. **Review.** Write the trade in your Journal: the plan, what happened, what you learned.

> This is how Tactiq structures an idea, as education, not advice. Tactiq does not size or place trades. Position size, execution and discipline are yours.