Trade Pilot

Welcome to FLB Trade Pilot#

Define the risk — the size takes care of itself. FLB Trade Pilot is the execution tool of the FLB suite — a risk-first order-entry engine that turns a level on your chart into a fully bracketed trade. You don't pick a contract count; you decide how much you're willing to lose and where your stop goes, and Trade Pilot sizes the position so the math is exact. Drag the lines to where the chart says they belong, and it builds the entry, the stop, and a laddered set of targets around them.

It's built for the way FLB members actually trade: find the setup with the indicators, place the trade with controlled risk, and manage the exit with a target ladder and an automatic move to break-even — without doing position-size arithmetic in your head while the market moves. THE CORE PRINCIPLE. Amateurs pick a size and discover their risk. Professionals pick their risk and derive their size.

Trade Pilot enforces the professional order: risk first, size second — so every trade is the same controlled bet regardless of where your stop has to sit. Stop trading price. Trade value — and risk it on purpose.

Risk-Based Sizing#

The engine at the center of the tool. Trade Pilot's core is the relationship between your stop distance and your defined risk. Set both, and it solves for the only contract count that makes them agree. Move your stop further from entry and the size comes down; tighten it and the size goes up — your dollar risk stays fixed either way. YOU SET WHAT IT MEANS Qty Type Risk-based (size derived from your risk) or Fixed (you specify the contracts directly).

Risk Value + Unit How much you're risking on the trade — expressed in dollars, percent, ticks, or a fixed contract count. Stop Value + Unit Where your stop sits — in ticks, dollars, or another unit. This is the distance the sizing math is built on. Result: Contracts Trade Pilot computes the position size that makes your risk exact at that stop distance — shown live before you commit. not the other way around. A wider stop isn't 'more risk'; it's fewer contracts at the same risk.

Place the stop where the chart invalidates the trade, and let Trade Pilot do the sizing.

The Draggable Bracket#

Build the trade by moving lines. Trade Pilot draws the trade as a set of lines on the chart — entry, stop, and targets — and lets you drag each one to the price the chart dictates. As you drag, the sizing recomputes in real time, so you always see the contract count, the dollar risk, and the stop distance before the order goes live.

ENTRY STOP TGT 1 TGT 2 TGT 3 drag any line — size recomputes to hold your risk The workflow Set your risk once Configure your Risk Value and Unit — the constant bet you want on every trade. You rarely touch this again. Place entry and stop Drag the entry to your FLB signal's level and the stop to the price that invalidates it. The dashboard updates contracts and risk as you move them. Set the targets Drag your targets onto the next FLB levels — a Key Level, a value edge, the next rung.

Use one target or ladder up to four. Submit and manage Send the bracket. Trade Pilot manages the stop, the targets, the break-even move, and any trailing automatically from there. THE NUMBERS ARE LIVE BEFORE YOU COMMIT. You never guess what a trade costs. Drag the stop and watch the size and risk update; if the contract count feels wrong, the stop or the risk setting is telling you something. Commit only when the bracket reads right.

The Target Ladder#

Scale out, then trade risk-free. Trade Pilot can split the exit across up to four targets, each with its own price and its own share of the position. That lets you bank partial profit early and leave a runner for the larger move — and once the first target fills, it can pull your stop to break-even so the rest of the trade carries no risk. Number of Targets How many take-profit levels to ladder — from a single exit up to four. Allocation Mode How the position is divided across the targets — the share each one takes.

TGT 1-4 (Mode / Value / Alloc) Each target's placement and the portion of the position it closes. After TGT1 Fills Break-Even When the first target hits, move the stop to entry (plus a tick buffer you set) — the rest of the trade is now risk-free. FIRST TARGET PAYS FOR THE TRADE. The classic Trade Pilot exit: bank a portion at the first FLB level, slide to break-even, and let the runner work toward the next one with zero downside. You've taken money off the table and removed your risk in one automatic step.

Trailing & Safety#

Protect the runner, cap the damage. Trailing Stop Beyond the break-even move, Trade Pilot includes a configurable trailing stop that follows price as the trade runs — locking in more of the move as it extends, on the terms you set. Use it on the runner after the early targets have filled, so a strong move keeps paying while a reversal still exits you in profit. Safety caps The Safety controls are hard limits the tool will not cross — a maximum loss and a maximum contract count that sit above all the sizing math.

Even if a stop setting or a fast market would otherwise push the position past your ceiling, the cap holds. They are your last line of defense against a fat-finger or a runaway setting. CAPS ARE A FLOOR UNDER YOUR DISCIPLINE — NOT A STRATEGY. The safety limits exist to stop a catastrophe, not to size your trades. Don't lean on the max-contract cap as your position size; size from risk, and let the cap simply guarantee you can never exceed it.

For full behavioral enforcement — daily loss limits, tilt lockouts, prop-pass rules — pair Trade Pilot with FLB Trade Shield.

The Risk Dashboard & the Stack#

Where Trade Pilot sits. Trade Pilot keeps a live risk dashboard on the chart — the computed contract count, the dollar risk, and the stop distance in ticks — updating as you build and manage the trade. It's the constant readout that keeps every trade honest: you always know exactly what you have on. Where it sits in the stack Trade Pilot is the execution layer — it answers how do I place and manage this trade with controlled risk?

It doesn't generate signals; it executes the ones the rest of the suite produces, under the limits Trade Shield enforces. First Light Beacon / Key Levels Find the level — where to place the bracket. Surge / First Flat / Beacon signal Time the entry — when to pull the trigger. Execute — size from risk, bracket, ladder, and manage the exit. FLB Trade Shield Govern — enforce the daily and behavioral risk limits around it.

Common Mistakes#

How traders misuse Trade Pilot and lose money. Sizing by contracts instead of risk The whole point is risk-first. Setting a fixed contract count and ignoring the stop distance throws away the tool's edge. Define your risk and let it size. Placing the stop to fit a size Don't widen or tighten your stop to get a contract count you like. Put the stop where the chart invalidates the trade — the size follows from that, not the reverse.

Skipping the dashboard The contract count, risk, and stop ticks are live before you commit. Submitting without reading them is how a fat-finger or a stale setting becomes a real loss. Over-laddering tiny trades Four targets on a small scalp just adds friction. Match the number of targets to the trade — one clean exit is often better than four. Treating safety caps as position size The max-contract cap is a catastrophe stop, not a sizing tool. Leaning on it means you've stopped sizing from risk.

Running it without Trade Shield Trade Pilot controls per-trade risk; it doesn't enforce your daily loss limit or catch tilt. Pair it with Trade Shield for the behavioral guardrails. Going live before testing on Sim It's an automated order engine. Confirm the bracket, ladder, and break-even behavior on a Sim account first — every time you change settings.

Final Word#

From the desk of BH. FLB Trade Pilot exists because execution is where good setups go to die. You can read the chart perfectly and still blow up by sizing wrong, freezing on the entry, or fumbling the exit. Trade Pilot takes the arithmetic and the management off your plate: you decide the risk and the levels, and it builds a clean, bracketed, laddered trade around them — the same controlled bet every time. It is opinionated in one direction on purpose: risk first, always. The size is an output, never an input.

That single discipline — enforced by the tool instead of your willpower — is what keeps one bad trade from becoming a bad week. The members who do well with Trade Pilot share three habits. They set risk once and size from it, never the reverse. They read the dashboard before every commit. And they let the ladder and the break-even move work instead of managing by hand — with Trade Shield governing the day around them. REMEMBER.

Pick your risk, place your stop where the trade is wrong, and let the tool size and manage the rest. Controlled risk on every trade is the edge. Stop trading price. Trade value. — BH First Light Beacon — Breakout Hunter LLC FLB Trade Pilot is an order-execution tool, not financial advice. Automated order entry carries additional operational risk; always validate behavior on a simulated account first. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor.

No software can guarantee profits or fully prevent losses. The internal logic is proprietary and intentionally not documented. FLB Members Only — redistribution prohibited. (c) 2026 First Light Beacon / Breakout Hunter LLC.