RivetAlgo Strategy Playbook

How RivetAlgo Strategy Logic Works

A five-part guide to the core ideas behind RivetAlgo: session timing, entry discipline, risk-management settings, daily streak control, and live execution.

01 / Time Context

What Are Kill Zones?

Learn why Asia, London, and New York can produce different NQ and MNQ behavior.

Start here

02 / Entry Logic

Not Every Sweep Is an Entry

See why sweep labels create context, while full rule confirmation decides the trade.

Entry discipline

03 / Risk Settings

Strategy Risk Management

Understand direction bias, fixed TP/SL, trailing protection, and live trade control.

Trader control

04 / Daily Control

Two Wins, Then Stop

Review a real NQ example where daily streak rules stopped new strategy entries.

Account discipline

05 / Live Trading

Live Trading with RivetAlgo

Follow a real MNQ alert from 3-minute bar close to TopstepX funded account execution.

Live workflow