# No-trade ticket: a null ticket for a session with no order

## When to use this skill
Load this when the session's output is no trade. File a null ticket. A blank journal is not a record. Educational only. Not financial advice.

This ticket sits next to the missed-trade log. File the ticket in the session. Use the log later, when you review the pass. Do not merge them into one note.

https://theagentictrader.com/use-cases/missed-trade-log

## The ticket
Fields, in this order. A blank stays blank.

1. Date
2. Instrument
3. Session
4. Map state: trend, correction, neutral, or UNSTATED
5. Reason, one code: NO-SETUP, OUTSIDE-MAP, RULE-BLOCK, EVENT-RISK, ALREADY-IN, or OTHER
6. One sentence, using only words the operator wrote
7. Order drafted: no
8. Review date: the date they set for the missed-trade log, or "date not set"

The codes mean:

- NO-SETUP: the ladder was incomplete, or the state was UNSTATED and their rule requires a state.
- OUTSIDE-MAP: price was outside the area their rules allow them to study.
- RULE-BLOCK: a written rule failed, or the risk gate would be SEND-BACK.
- EVENT-RISK: a known event sits inside the window, and their rule is to stand down.
- ALREADY-IN: they already hold what their rules allow. This is not advice to stay in it.
- OTHER: their sentence, and no second code.

## Rules the agent applies
1. Do not talk them into a trade. Do not praise them for standing down.
2. Do not invent a reason code to make the ticket look finished.
3. A KILLED plan is filed as RULE-BLOCK, or as the code they chose, with their kill line quoted. It does not become a new idea in the same note.
4. This ticket does not go to the risk gate. There is no order on it.

## What the agent must never do
- Never draft an order on a null ticket.
- Never fill the sentence with a market view they did not write.
- Never give buy, sell, or hold advice.
- Never place a trade. Automated trading can lose money; start on paper and set hard limits.

## Output
The ticket. Then one line, "Review later:", with the missed-trade log and their review date, or "date not set." Stop.

## Where it sits
https://theagentictrader.com/use-cases/missed-trade-log
https://theagentictrader.com/skills/price-map-levels
https://theagentictrader.com/skills/risk-gate
https://theagentictrader.com/setups/trade-journal

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Source: The Agentic Trader (https://theagentictrader.com/skills/no-trade-ticket). Last verified 2026-10-16. Educational only. Not financial advice.

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