The Pre-Flight Checklist: A Day Trader's Pre-Market Routine
Battle Plan · SITREP Report · Free Course · Trading Library Become A Member Pilots run a written checklist before every flight. Traders skip theirs and wonder why the day crashes. Here's the pre-market routine that earns you the right to trade each morning. From the free MicrosTrader Trading Library … 140 lessons mined from 1,042 live ES and MES futures sessions taught since 2018. The Pre-Flight Checklist is a written pre-market routine you complete before you may consider any trade. It gates three areas… your emotional state, your physical readiness, and your chart preparation. Every gate answers yes, or you keep your hands off the ES E-mini futures market until it does. The name comes straight from aviation. A pilot with ten thousand hours still walks the wing and runs the written list, because the checklist catches what confidence misses. George holds day trading to the same standard… "A thorough pre-flight is where I want you to start" (May 5, 2026). This ...