How TradeMind Works: The Daily Pledge, Readiness Score and Tilt Protocol

What is TradeMind?

TradeMind: Trading Psychology, the iPhone trading psychology app (App Store ID 6761249038) by Nikolaos Aristotelis Adamidis, is a daily routine for active traders. It is built around three moments: before the open, the minute after a loss, and after the close.

It runs on what you tell it. It does not read your account, your charts or your P&L, and it never suggests a trade. It has been on the App Store (opens in a new tab) since 11 June 2026, in the Finance category, for iPhone with iOS 17.6 or later. You can read who makes TradeMind on the about page.

Other products use the TradeMind name. This page describes only the iPhone app with App Store ID 6761249038.

The rest of this page gives the exact rules, taken from the app's code on 25 September 2026. If you want the short version first, the homepage explains the trading psychology app for iPhone in a few screens.

What is the TradeMind Daily Pledge?

The TradeMind Daily Pledge is a short contract you sign before the open. It asks for three decisions while you are calm, so you do not have to make them after the first loss. It takes three screens, which the app calls gates:

1. Gate 01, The Limits. A daily loss limit in dollars or in R. The presets are $100, $200, $300 and $500, or 1R, 2R, 3R and 5R, with plus and minus buttons for any other value. The default is $300. Then the most trades you will take today, from 1 to 12, starting at 3.
2. Gate 02, The Guardrail. One if-then sentence built from the two lists below. The trigger is pre-selected from your answer in the onboarding quiz, and you can change it.
3. Final gate, The Oath. Your why, the trader identity you chose, and the oath: "I will execute my edge. I will respect my limits. I will honor my guardrail."
4. Seal it. Press and hold for 1.5 seconds. The screen reads "Contract sealed".

Any trigger can go with any response, so there are 16 possible guardrails. You sign one pledge per day. Signing adds 40 to today's readiness score, removes the cap of 60, earns 20 Discipline Points once a day, counts as a streak day and cancels the 9:15 ET reminder.

The guardrail is an implementation intention: a plan in the form "if situation X, then I do Y". Gollwitzer described the idea in 1999, and a 2006 meta-analysis by Gollwitzer and Sheeran of 94 independent tests found a medium-to-large effect on reaching goals. Those studies were not about traders. Our guides on if-then trading rules and how to set a daily loss limit show how to choose the numbers.

How is the TradeMind Trader Readiness score calculated?

The TradeMind Trader Readiness score is a number from 0 to 100 that sums up how prepared you say you are today. It resets each day and is built from these parts:

Then three rules apply, in this order:

1. The total is kept between 0 and 100.
2. If you logged any tilt today, the score cannot go above 50 for the rest of the day.
3. Otherwise, if you have not signed today's pledge, it cannot go above 60.

Here is how that works on a real day:

Tap the gauge on Home to see the ledger line by line. The checklist is yours: you add the items, such as the ones in our pre-market trading checklist.

What is the TradeMind Tilt Protocol?

The TradeMind Tilt Protocol is a routine for the minute after a loss, or any moment you feel an urge to break your rules. It opens from the "Tilt Protocol" button that floats above the tab bar on Home, and it has three steps:

1. Diagnose yourself. Pick the state you are in and rate its intensity from 1 to 10.
2. The mirror. The front camera opens as a live mirror. It is a preview only: the camera session has no photo or video output, so nothing is recorded or saved. Over it you tap through six cards: "Remind yourself why you trade", "I am" plus your identity, "I trade" plus your why, then three lines for the state you picked.
3. The moment of truth. Tap "I chose to resist" or "I tilted".

For FOMO, for example, the three lines are "Price will come to me.", "If I miss it, I miss it." and "Patience pays."

Neither choice earns or costs Discipline Points, so an honest "I tilted" never hurts your rank. For the steps to take away from the app, read what to do after a losing trade and what tilt in trading means.

What breathing resets does TradeMind include?

TradeMind has four guided resets under "Calibrate your state". Each has three timed steps:

Finishing any reset fills the 30-point mindset part of today's readiness score, earns 10 Discipline Points once a day and counts as a streak day.

What the research says, with its limits: a 2018 systematic review by Zaccaro and colleagues looked at 15 studies of breathing below 10 breaths a minute in healthy people. It linked slow breathing with more relaxation and less anxiety and arousal, but the methods varied too much to pool. All three of TradeMind's patterns are that slow: about 6 (resonance), 3.75 (box) and 3.2 (4-7-8) breaths a minute. In a 2023 trial of 108 adults, Balban and colleagues found that exhale-focused cyclic sighing improved mood more than mindfulness meditation, while box breathing did not differ significantly. None of TradeMind's resets uses cyclic sighing. The free breathing reset timer on this site does. Slow breathing may help you feel calmer; it is not a treatment for anything.

What is Dr. Noesis?

Dr. Noesis, the AI coach inside TradeMind: Trading Psychology, is a chat built on Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash model through Firebase AI Logic. It is software, not a person. It is not a psychologist, a therapist or a licensed professional of any kind.

Its instructions ask for short replies of at most 3 or 4 sentences, focused on accountability, with probing questions. It must give no financial advice and no buy or sell calls. When it quotes someone, it may only quote a fixed list of 17 investors and philosophers, such as Seneca and Howard Marks.

Chats are not saved to your account: the history lasts only while that chat is open. It needs an internet connection, because your messages and the profile fields above are sent to Google's model to write each reply. If trading is affecting your health or your money, Dr. Noesis is not the right help; start with our page on trading stress and burnout, which lists helplines.

What are the 70 audio lessons?

The lessons work like a short trading psychology audio course: 70 lessons in 7 tracks of 10, each aimed at one problem. You can see the tracks on the lessons section of the homepage.

How each lesson works:

1. Audio. Each lesson runs 3:20 to 5:47, about 5.3 hours across all 70. It keeps playing with the screen locked, with 15-second skip controls.
2. Written notes. A "Lesson intel" section sums up the idea. Nine lessons add a pre-mortem exercise.
3. Two journal prompts. The "Complete protocol" button stays off until you answer both. A finished lesson earns 25 Discipline Points.

Lessons 1-3 of a track are Concept, 4-6 Technique and 7-10 Protocol, and they open in order. Some titles name clinical approaches, such as "Exposure Therapy" in Mastering Fear and "Acceptance Commitment (ACT)" in Stopping Tilt. Those lessons draw on ideas from the approaches; they are not therapy.

How do Discipline Points, ranks and Streak Shields work?

Discipline Points reward the routine, never the result. Daily habits count once a day:

Points set your rank. The six ranks and their thresholds are Recruit (0), Apprentice (150), Operator (500), Professional (1,200), Veteran (2,500) and Master (5,000). A day with a pledge, a reset, a journal entry and one lesson earns 70 points. Seven of those days in a row add the 50-point block, for 540 points, which passes Operator.

Streaks. A day counts when you sign the pledge, finish a reset, log a Tilt Protocol outcome, write in the journal or finish a lesson. Weekends and NYSE holidays never break a streak, and doing something on one still adds a day.

Streak Shields. You earn one Streak Shield for every 7 days in a row and can bank up to 2. If you miss a trading day, a shield is spent automatically and the streak survives. With no shield left, it resets. A 35-day calendar shows each day as showed up, shielded, rest day or missed.

The Ascent. A longer map of 22 milestones in 6 chapters, all about consistency, none about P&L:

In chapter 4 the track follows your quiz answer: Revenge Trading, Killing FOMO, Taming Greed (for over-leveraging) or Mastering Fear, with Stopping Tilt for any other answer.

What is Tribe, the TradeMind community?

Tribe is a forum inside the app. You can sort posts by New, Trending or Top, search, like and comment. A post has a headline, one of five tags (Win High, Drawdown, Tilted, Flow or Stuck) and a body, and your rank shows under your name. You can delete your own posts.

Every other day, a clearly labelled TradeMind account (@trademind, marked "Official") posts a question, a lesson spotlight or a small challenge, such as journaling every trade for 3 days. It never posts as an invented trader.

When does TradeMind send reminders?

Reminders follow the NYSE calendar in US Eastern time, not your local exchange. Each time you open the app, it reschedules the next 10 trading days. Market reminders skip weekends and NYSE holidays; only the Sunday briefing and Weekend Wisdom fall on weekends.

You can switch each of the five categories off in Profile.

What doesn't TradeMind do?

It helps to know the limits before you download anything:

• No broker or prop-firm connection. It cannot see your account or block a trade.
• No trade import and no P&L analytics. The journal holds text or voice notes with five mood tags (Calm, Focused, Anxious, Greedy, Revenge), not trade records.
• No signals and no advice. It never tells you what to buy or sell, or how much.
• iPhone only. It is built for iPhone. There is no Android or web version, and no version designed for iPad or Mac.
• Not therapy. Dr. Noesis is an AI coach, and the lessons are education.

How do I use TradeMind alongside a trade journal?

Use a trade journal for the numbers and TradeMind for the session. A journal tells you after the fact that you took four trades after a loss. TradeMind is meant for the moment before the fifth: the trade cap you pledged before the open and the Tilt Protocol one tap away.

A simple split: import and review trades in your journal at the weekend, and write the "why" in TradeMind on the day. If you are still choosing a journal, our comparison of trading psychology apps lists which ones import trades. For what to write, see these trading psychology journal prompts.

How much does TradeMind cost?

The download is free, and so is the in-app 8-question quiz with its result. Everything else needs TradeMind Pro. There is also a free trading psychology test on this site that needs no app.

The two TradeMind Pro plans:

Prices are in US dollars; your local App Store price may differ. You buy and cancel through your Apple ID, and a subscription renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. See pricing on the homepage, or support for restoring purchases and deleting your account.