How Discipline is calculated
The four internal buckets behind Discipline, the four-day recency weighting, and why the Discipline tab uses a 500 dollar loss limit that is not the one you set.
What this does
Discipline asks whether you follow your own rules. It is suggested at 35 per cent of the VEXA Score, the second largest share after Confidence.
The four buckets
VEXA’s AI is given an explicit internal split for Discipline:
| Share | Bucket | What it looks at |
|---|---|---|
| 25% | Max daily loss adherence | A precomputed four-day weighted violation severity |
| 25% | Intraday P&L fluctuation control | A four-day weighted intraday volatility figure and each day’s P&L path |
| 15% | Health | Last night only |
| 35% | AI discretionary | Loss cutting, revenge trading, position sizing, recovery behaviour, trade frequency, Showed Up days |
The four-day recency weighting
The first two buckets do not look at one day. They look at your last four trading days with the most recent day counting most:
| Day | Weight |
|---|---|
| Most recent | about 41% |
| One before | about 27% |
| Two before | about 18% |
| Three before | about 12% |
That weighting is computed before the model ever sees your data, and the model is instructed not to re-weight it. One bad day three sessions ago does not sink the score if yesterday was clean.
How severity is read
The daily loss bucket runs on a violation severity from 0 to 100, where higher is worse:
| Severity | What it means | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 0 to 15 | Clean | Full points |
| 15 to 30 | Minor drawdowns | Minimal penalty |
| 30 to 50 | Intraday violation with recovery | Moderate penalty |
| 50 to 75 | Significant exceed, weak recovery | Heavy penalty |
| 75 to 100 | End-of-day breach inside the window | Major penalty |
How the P&L path is read
The intraday bucket judges the shape of each day, not only its close. A weighted volatility below 1.0 reads as stable trading. Above 2.0 reads as emotional swings.
The model is handed a plain description of each day and told how to grade it. “Steady grind up” and “red day but cut losses early” score as high discipline. “Green close but volatile intraday swings” and “red day, losses compounded” score as poor discipline, and the green one is not forgiven for closing green.
Showed Up days
Days you were present and chose not to trade sit inside the discretionary 35 per cent, measured over a two-week window. The guidance awards up to +5 points for one, +6 to +8 when it follows a losing day, and +7 to +10 when it follows a very large day in either direction. See Mark a Showed Up day.
The five rows on the Discipline tab
These rows are computed on your device over the last five trading days as an explanation. They do not produce the score.
| Row | Label shown | The value | The rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAILY LOSS ADHERENCE | Critical | (trading days − violations) / trading days × 100 | A day counts as a violation when its P&L is below minus 500 dollars |
| LOSS CUTTING | High priority | Excellent, Good or Poor, plus the ratio | Ratio is average loss divided by average win. Below 1.0 is Excellent, below 1.5 is Good, otherwise Poor |
| EMOTIONAL CONTROL | High priority | A count of revenge trades | A trade that closes within 15 minutes of a trade that lost more than 200 dollars |
| LARGEST LOSS | Monitor | The absolute value of your worst single trade | Up below 500 dollars, neutral below 1,000, down above that |
| SLEEP QUALITY | Support | Optimal or Poor, plus a points figure | Optimal at 6.4 hours or more. The penalty is round((6.4 − sleep) × −5) |
Where to find it
- Open CDI Breakdown from the sidebar.
- Choose the Discipline tab.
- Read the ring, then the five component rows underneath.
- Open the Home tab, the house icon at the far left of the bar at the bottom.
- Tap the ring labelled DISCIPLINE.
- Read the ring, the contributing factors and the insight.
- Open Dashboard from the sidebar.
- Tap the ring labelled DISCIPLINE.
- Read the ring, the contributing factors and the insight.
- Open the Home tab, the house icon at the far left of the bar at the bottom.
- Tap the ring labelled DISCIPLINE.
- Read the ring, the contributing factors and the insight. Swipe right anywhere on the page to go back.
- Open Dashboard from the sidebar.
- Tap the ring labelled DISCIPLINE.
- Read the ring, the contributing factors and the insight.
What you should see
A Discipline number to one decimal place, five rows with arrows and secondary lines such as “2 violations” or “Ratio: 1.24”, and AI contributing factors that name the most recent day specifically.
If it doesn’t work
- Discipline fell after a profitable day. Check the intraday bucket. A day that closed green after a deep drawdown is scored as poor control, on purpose.
- The daily loss row flags days you consider fine. It is using 500 dollars, not your limit. See the warning above.
- The sleep row says Optimal and you own no wearable. It is reading the 7.0 hour default.
- One bad day tanked the score. Check which day. The most recent session carries roughly 41 per cent of two of the four buckets.
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