A trading edge is shaped as much by your tools as by your decisions.Discretionary trading didnt use to be a solo activity.On the floor, context, execution, risk and review were distributed across a team.Today, most discretionary traders operate alone, but the work didnt disappear.It collapsed into a single desk and a single workflow.When your tools dont talk to each other, decision quality degrades quietly.Macro context lives in one place. Bias in another. Execution somewhere else. Review happens late, or not at all.Professional desks solved this with roles and structure.Solo traders now have to solve it with tooling.That means designing workflows where preparation, execution and review reinforce each other instead of competing for attention. Read the full piece: Reinventing the Trading Desk with Custom Tooling