Vows

A vow is a promise you make to yourself. Where a rule is statistical, a vow is moral. It exists for the commitments that matter but do not reduce to a threshold.

Examples of things that work better as vows than rules: I will not trade to get even. I will close the platform when I am done, whatever the tape does. I will not look at another trader's position before forming my own view.

The editor (Edit Vow) has four fields:

Field	Meaning
Promise	The commitment itself, in your own words
Start Date	When it takes effect
End Date	When it lapses. Short-dated vows are easier to keep than permanent ones
Order	Position in the list
Associated Rule	An optional link to a rule that measures something related

Vows show up in Rigor as a banner and as a list you confirm with Confirm Trading Vows. A check-in question of type Vow Sayer lists your active vows so you can affirm them individually as part of a form.

Write vows in the first person and keep them short. A vow you cannot recite from memory is not a vow, it is a note.