Discipline
You planned two trades. You took seven.
Overtrading is the quietest way to blow an eval — no single disaster, just five trades you never planned. How a hard count actually holds.
The math nobody does at 10am
If your edge is real on your planned A-setups, trades 3 through 7 are by definition your B- and C-setups — taken with worse entries and less patience, paying full commissions and full spread. Overtrading doesn't feel like breaking a rule; it feels like working hard.
Counting is the whole trick
Almost nobody who overtrades knows their live count mid-session. The number that would stop them is the number they aren't looking at. A visible count with a hard limit changes the sixth trade from a habit into a decision.
What LastLoss does
You set a max-trades-per-day. It counts every round trip live, warns as you approach, and when you cross it, it says so in plain language — and keeps the count on screen where it can't be unseen. The trade counter also feeds your session grade, so a green day taken in nine trades doesn't get to feel like discipline.
“That's 6 trades. You said 5 was the limit. You're done for the day. Close the platform.”
verbatim from the app's alert copy · shown in Blunt, the shipped default