Pre-Market Preparation Routine overview

Executes systematic pre-market preparation before each trading session — scanning the trading universe for overnight earnings, M&A announcements, and macro data releases, reviewing pre-market price action and volume for gap analysis, checking economic calendar events and central bank communications, setting key support/resistance levels and price alerts on watchlist instruments, reviewing overnight developments in correlated markets (Asia/Europe session), and confirming system readiness (connectivity, buying power, margin). Produces daily preparation checklists, watchlist with annotated levels, and risk exposure summaries. Excludes trade execution and position management.