# Intervention Window > The roughly four minutes Discentra designs for, between a behavioural trigger and the trader's next trade: our own operational construct, not a measured figure. ## AI Snippet What is the intervention window in trading? The intervention window is the roughly four minutes Discentra designs for, between a behavioural trigger event and the trader's next trade. It is our own operational construct, not a measured figure. The aim is to reach the trader while that next trade can still change. A response built on end-of-day reports arrives a day or more after the trigger; Discentra is designed to cut that to under 5 seconds, from trigger to a ringing phone, so the call can land inside the window. ## What Intervention Window is The intervention window is the roughly four minutes Discentra designs for, between a trigger event (a run of losses, a revenge trade, a burst of trades) and the trader's next trade. It is our own operational construct, not a measured figure. The aim is to reach the trader before that next trade is placed, while it can still change. A response built on end-of-day reports misses this window. The trigger fires at T+0. The trading session ends hours later. A P&L report generates overnight. A risk team reviews it the next day. Any outreach arrives a day or more after the trigger. By then, any trades that followed the trigger have been placed. The window's length is our design choice, not a result from stress research. We keep it short because the stress response starts fast: adrenaline arrives within seconds of a stressor such as a loss, and cortisol builds behind it, peaking 21 to 40 minutes after onset in laboratory studies. The call is designed to reach the trader early in that stretch: it asks about their process and puts a pause between the trigger and the next trade. We plan for calls of about four minutes; the design priority is timing, not length. Discentra's entire architecture is built around operating inside this window. The behavioural engine is designed to evaluate patterns in under 100 milliseconds and the voice orchestrator to place a call within five seconds, so that the coaching conversation starts inside the stress response, before the next trade is placed. Coaching, not financial advice. ## Why it matters for institutions Retrospective tools (journals, analytics, post-session reviews) work after the window we design for. They provide insight after the fact, once the trades that followed the trigger have been placed. Discentra is built to act inside the window instead. For prop firms, brokers, and crypto exchanges, collapsing the intervention timeline from days to seconds is what puts the intervention inside the window. Their platforms already record the trade data needed to detect triggers as it happens, so the gap we see is response, not detection. Discentra is built to close that gap by responding inside the window, while the next trade can still change, rather than days after it. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is the intervention window in trading? The intervention window is the roughly four minutes Discentra designs for, between a behavioural trigger event (a run of losses, a revenge trade, a burst of trades) and the trader's next trade. It is our own operational construct, not a measured figure. The aim is to reach the trader before that next trade is placed, while it can still change. ### Why do end-of-day reviews miss the intervention window? Because they run in days, not minutes. The trigger fires at T+0, the session ends hours later, a P&L report generates overnight, a risk team reviews it the next day, and any outreach arrives a day or more after the trigger. By then, any trades that followed the trigger have been placed. ### Why does Discentra design for a window of only a few minutes? Because another trade can follow a trigger fast, and we want the call to arrive first. Adrenaline arrives within seconds of a stressor, while cortisol builds more slowly, peaking 21 to 40 minutes after onset in laboratory studies. The call is designed to reach the trader in those first minutes, ask about their process and create a pause before the next trade. We plan for calls of about four minutes; the design priority is timing, not length. ### How fast does a trader intervention need to be? Fast enough to land inside the window. Discentra's behavioural engine is designed to evaluate patterns in under 100 milliseconds and its voice orchestrator to place a call within five seconds, so that the coaching conversation starts inside the stress response, before the next trade. Coaching, not financial advice. ## Related terms - [Behavioural Trigger](https://discentra.ai/glossary/behavioural-trigger) - [Amygdala Hijack](https://discentra.ai/glossary/amygdala-hijack) - [Tilt](https://discentra.ai/glossary/tilt) - [Churn](https://discentra.ai/glossary/churn) - [Active Trader](https://discentra.ai/glossary/active-trader) ## Further reading - [The Intervention Gap](https://discentra.ai/blog/the-intervention-gap) - [Discentra vs Trading Journals](https://discentra.ai/compare/trading-journals) --- This is a Markdown mirror of [https://discentra.ai/glossary/intervention-window](https://discentra.ai/glossary/intervention-window). Provided for LLM citation. © Discentra Ltd. Coaching, not financial advice.