A simple intraday routine with Live Flow

Consistent traders are not the ones with the most indicators; they are the ones who repeat the same process every day and keep their losses small. Here is a simple routine built around Live Flow. Adapt the times and limits to your own style.

Before the open

• Set your daily loss limit in rupees, and stop for the day when you hit it.
• Set your risk per trade: a fixed rupee amount, often 0.5–1% of trading capital.
• Note any results or events for stocks you follow. Intraday patterns rarely survive surprise news.

09:15 – 09:45: watch, don't chase

The first half hour is the noisiest of the day. Prices swing as overnight orders are filled, and the Live Flow score has little history to work with yet.

• Watch how the bullish and bearish count settles (reading breadth).
• Note which sectors lead and lag.
• Let the first order blocks and VWAP form. Most charts will show narrow zones, and the cards few order blocks, until the day has some structure.

09:45 – 11:30: the main window

By now the day has a direction.

1. Pick the side the market favours from the count.
2. In the top two sectors on that side, shortlist stocks with four or five conviction dots (what the score measures).
3. For each, click the card to open its chart: is price near the zone, is R:R at least 1:1.5, and does the stock sit on the right side of VWAP?
4. If price is far above the zone, wait for it to come back. If it never does, let it go; there will be another.
5. Size the position from the distance to Support 1 (sizing from the stop).

11:30 – 14:00: the quiet hours

Volume usually drops around midday and moves get choppier. Manage what you have rather than adding much:

• Trail your stop as new levels form in the chart.
• Watch the flow chart: if most lines start turning together, the market's mood may be changing.

14:00 – 15:15: the last stretch

Activity often picks up again into the close. The last-30-minute drift is one of the six score components, so stocks that keep moving late rise up the rankings.

• Look for stocks still holding near their highs (or lows, on the bearish side) with steady buy (or sell) share.
• Close intraday positions before the session ends if that is your plan; do not let an intraday trade turn into an unplanned overnight one.

After the close: the journal

Write down every trade in a simple table: stock, side, entry, stop, target, R:R at entry, result, and one line on why you took it. Once a week, look for patterns:

Question	What it shows
Which sectors and score bands made money?	Where your edge is
Were losers mostly chases far from the zone?	A discipline gap
Average win ÷ average loss	Whether your R:R plan holds up in practice

Small improvements in the losing trades usually matter more than finding better winners.

Live Flow narrows the market to a few stocks worth watching. Your rules decide whether you trade them. Keep the routine boring and the risk fixed.