The problem
Trading P&L is noisy. Win rate, average R, Sharpe — all of these tell you what happened, but none of them tell you whether you should have taken the trade in the first place. Two traders with identical P&L can have wildly different process quality, and process quality is what compounds.
Existing review tools fall into two camps:
- Trade journals — text fields and tags. You write what you remember. You forget context within 24 hours. The journal becomes a narrative, not an evaluation.
- P&L analytics — distributions, equity curves, MAE/MFE. Rigorous numerically, blind to why the trade existed.
Neither answers the question that actually matters: "Given what the auction was doing at 10:42 IST when I went long, was that a structurally justified entry?"
The market does not care about your win rate. It cares whether you read it correctly. The Coach grades you on the read.
What it does
Step 1. Ingest your trades — CSV upload first, broker integrations later.
Step 2. Reconstruct market state at every entry and exit using the same
engines that power the Narrator: regime, profile shape, value
migration, structural levels, IV state, distance from recent value.
Step 3. Cross-reference the Narrator's contemporaneous brief — what the
read was that morning, that lunch, that EOD — and align it with
the decision you actually made.
Step 4. Rate the trade on multiple structural axes. Each axis gets a
letter grade and a one-sentence justification grounded in the
reconstructed state.
Step 5. Produce a coaching summary, a per-trade journal entry, and an
aggregate weak-spot analysis as your trade history grows.The Coach is not running on cached opinion. Every rating is grounded in the same regime / profile / structural-levels state that is on the live dashboard, replayed for the timestamp of your trade.
The rating axes
The Coach grades each trade on six axes. Each gets a letter (A / B / C / D / F) plus a one-sentence justification.
Structural Justification
Was there a structural reason to take this trade where you took it? An untested naked POC, an active single print, a balance-area edge, a value-area extreme — or were you trading mid-distribution noise?
Timeframe Fit
Did your hold time match the auction's clock? You entered on a one-minute trigger, but the value migration the trade depended on plays out over an afternoon. The Coach flags entries where the timeframe of the setup and the timeframe of the management did not match.
Auction Alignment
Were you with the auction or against it? Initiative buying into seller initiative is a fight. Responsive selling at value-area high in balance is alignment. The Coach reads the regime and OTF state at the moment of entry and grades alignment explicitly.
Risk Sizing vs Regime
Did you size for the volatility regime you were in, or the one you wished you were in? Entering at full size into a high-vol IB extension because "the move feels obvious" is a regime mismatch. The Coach pulls the realised-vol percentile at entry and compares your size against your average size in similar conditions.
Setup Quality
Some structural setups have demonstrably better empirical follow-through than others. The Coach references the rotation library to grade setup quality — was this an A+ context-rich setup, or a coin-flip with one weak factor?
Discipline
Did you take the trade as planned, or did you adjust on the fly? Late entries past the level, premature exits before the structural target, doubling down outside the playbook — all show up here. This axis is the only one where the Coach also reads your stated plan, if you provided one.
A sample review
Illustrative — replace with a real anonymised example at launch.
Trade
Long NIFTY-I @ 24,180.5 at 10:42 IST. Exited @ 24,205 at 11:18 IST.
+24.5 pts on 25 lots
Reconstructed state at entry
B-shape value migration up from prior session. IB high at 24,156.4 was tested and held as support twice in the prior 18 minutes. ETH naked POC at 24,090 sitting below as untested support. Regime: medium realised vol, IV/HV spread tight. Narrator's lunch brief flagged buyer initiative with the IB-high acceptance as the structural trigger.
Coach ratings
Verdict
Strong read · Partial expression
The same structural setup, held to value-area extension, would have produced ~3x the captured points without changing the entry or risk. Consider pre-defining a "structural target" rather than a points target on A-grade setups.
The Coach is not flattering. It will tell you that you took an F-grade setup that worked and a B-grade decision that did not. The rating is on the decision, not the outcome.
The live Coach dashboard
A view from inside the product — the coaching feed, journal, and per-trade reconstruction.
Split-pane feed plus per-trade detail, with deep-linking to specific trades.
Scorecard — session-level structural scoring that feeds the Coach's ratings.
What the Coach is NOT
- Not a signal generator. It will not tell you what to trade tomorrow.
- Not a live trade-alert system. The Coach runs on completed trades, retrospectively.
- Not a profitability button. A great read can lose money. A bad read can make money. The Coach helps you see the difference.
- Not investment advice. Auction Edge is not a SEBI Registered Investment Advisor. Coach output is post-trade education, not prescription. See Disclaimer.
How trades get into the Coach
Phased:
- CSV upload (launch) — drop in a CSV of your trades from any broker. We accept the standard tradebook format from major Indian brokers and a generic schema for everything else.
- Broker integrations (next) — direct read-only ingest. which first — Zerodha Kite Connect, Dhan, Sensibull, IBKR for institutional?
- API ingest (institutional) — for prop desks pushing trades programmatically.
You can also add manual notes per trade — what your plan was, what you thought was happening — and the Coach will use those in the Discipline axis.
Privacy
Your trades are yours. The Coach handles them with care.
- Encrypted at rest. Trade data is stored encrypted in the database.
- Never shared. No data ever leaves your account in identifiable form.
- Never used to train models. Not ours, not Anthropic's, not anyone's. Anthropic's API by default does not train on submitted content; we have not opted into any logging programme that would change this. See Privacy Policy.
- Deletable. Delete individual trades, batches, or your full Coach history at any time.
Status & early access
The Coach is in build.
Target launch: Q? / month. Early-access spots are limited because every onboarded user gets a manual review of their first ten trades from Surya directly.
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Why this is the most useful thing we are building
Briefs, levels, regime — these all help you make the next decision better. The Coach is what closes the loop on the decisions you have already made. Most traders never close that loop honestly because the data needed to do so disappears within 24 hours.
We are keeping the data. The Coach reads it back.