Four windows, four questions

A profitable ES trader does not watch twenty indicators: they watch four windows, each of which answers one question, in a fixed order. This lesson lays out the architecture of the screen and the reading order; the next ones set up each window, tool by tool, with the values that suit ES. Everything that follows is done once, saved as a template, and never touched again during the session.

The layout

On two physical monitors, windows 1 and 2 go on the context monitor, windows 3 and 4 on the action monitor. On a single monitor, windows 3 and 4 stay visible at all times and you switch to 1 and 2 between two decisions, never during one. A trader who adjusts their indicators or changes windows while a position is open is no longer reading the market, they are reading their doubts.