Ante 9
A tactile risk sizer + order console for Bookmap
Ante up. Drag your entry, stop and target — Ante 9 sizes the position to your max risk, shows live contracts and R:R, and fires the bracket. Map it to a MIDI controller and your risk lives under real knobs and switches on your desk. You operate it. It just makes the move deliberate.
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It won’t let you blow the account
Built for prop evals and funded accounts. Ante 9 watches your daily loss and trailing drawdown live — and flattens + locks you out before the firm’s engine liquidates you. The thing that actually ends evals, guarded.
Stop the bleed
Set your max daily loss. Cross it — booked or open — and Ante 9 disarms, flattens what’s live, and locks new entries until the next session. No revenge trade, no “one more.”
Before the blow line
Enter your eval’s trailing max drawdown. Ante 9 tracks room-to-blow every tick and flattens ~$100 before the firm’s engine liquidates — the exact moment that kills evals.
Acts, doesn’t report
Marked to the last tick, reconnect- and restart-safe, EOD or intraday to match your account. It moves while there’s still an account to save — not after.
From flat to bracketed in four moves
Set your max risk once
Set your max dollar risk per trade — your hard ceiling. Ante 9 holds it and sizes every position so the distance to your stop never breaks it.
Set your levels on the chart
Dial entry, stop and target on the knobs — or grab the lines right on the chart and drag them. Either way, contracts recalculate live to keep risk inside your ceiling.
Tap Now to drop the entry at the current price.
Read the meter, set the target
Watch the meter as you nudge the target — contracts, dollar risk and R:R settle live, so you set the level until the reward-to-risk reads right.
Arm, fire, manage
The bracket switch sends entry, stop and target together. Take and Add scale you out or in; the red switch flattens. Set it up so your fills land right in your Bookmap journal.
One flip from watching to working
It stays a thin strip while you read the tape. Arm it and the full execution deck deploys — send the bracket, scale in and out, and flatten on one switch. Fire and manage without ever leaving the chart.
Watch it size a trade in one motion
Drag the stop, watch contracts and R:R settle, tap the bracket. No mental math, no fat-finger.
Build into it — protected the whole way
Start small and add as the trade proves you right. Every add rides its own bracket, all sitting on one stop line — the pyramid without the exposure.
Open small
Send a starter, not your whole risk allowance — so there’s room to build. One number sets how big you begin.
On your terms
Each Add is its own protected tranche, normalized onto one shared stop and target. Take trims newest-first, back to your core.
Never past your max
An Add that would push your real risk over Max $? Ante 9 shows the exact number — current → projected — and asks before it fires.
Drive the trade, don’t babysit it
One-tap management, every action a real move on your live orders — from your controls or a MIDI knob. You operate; Ante 9 makes it deliberate.
Scale out a slice at market — bank a partial, let the rest run.
Snap the stop to your average fill. House money from here.
Auto-ratchet the stop behind price — never loosens, drag to retune.
Close and flip to the other side with a mirrored bracket, one press.
Flatten everything at market — clean exit, orphans swept.
A different way to be in the trade
You're driving the position by hand — dial the levels, scale your size, flip the switch — instead of clicking through dialogs. You feel like you're in the trade, the moves become muscle memory, and — we'll just say it — it's more fun. The driver's seat, not the autopilot.
In the driver's seat
Work the trade by hand — dial size, set the levels, fire the bracket. It feels like operating the position, not requesting it through a menu.
Present in the tape
Eyes on the DOM, hands on the knobs. Scale in and out without breaking gaze to hunt menus — you stay with the order flow.
Muscle memory
Same control, same place, every session. Flatten is always the red switch — under pressure your hand knows where to go.
Collapse to the cockpit
Flip to Execution mode and Ante 9 folds down to just what you touch mid-trade — arm, size, the guard readouts, one-tap management. The planning surface tucks away so nothing sits between you and the fill.
Bring your own controller
Map every control to a MIDI controller you already own. Knobs become entry, stop and target. Buttons scale you in and out. Switches arm — and flatten. Your hands stay on the desk, your eyes stay on the tape, and the dangerous part of trading gets a deliberate, physical motion.
We trade the same instruments you do. Ante 9 is the order console we wanted on our own desks — built so the dangerous part of trading feels deliberate, and the boring part feels good. It's a tool you operate. It never tells you what to trade, and it never promises a result.