Warden
Notice the trigger before choosing a rule
Write down what happened just before the last few unplanned checks: a price alert, a loss, a social post or an idle moment. Turn off promotional alerts and remove chart widgets if those are the prompts. Keep security and essential account notices reachable. If you immediately move to another trading app or Discord group, include that route in the plan rather than assuming the first app was the whole problem.
Handle account obligations before restricting access
A blocked screen does not cancel a resting order or change an open position. Before a long block, review any time-sensitive account obligations with your provider and ask about available trading restrictions. Do not rely on a phone timer to manage exposure or prevent losses. This guide concerns access habits, not recommendations to buy, sell or hold an asset.
Make the pause wider than one app
Once necessary account arrangements are in place, choose a specific phone-free activity and restrict the apps that interrupt it. Check browser and desktop routes separately. Warden can add an iPhone schedule or optional trusted-person approval for early access, but it does not control brokerage accounts or treat compulsive trading. If trading feels hard to control, involves chasing losses or is harming daily life, seek qualified local support. GamCare discusses trading-related gambling harms and provides support in Great Britain.
Reference: GamCare: gambling and trading
Reference: GamCare: support in Great Britain
Example: an evening without chart refreshes
After handling necessary account tasks, put the phone outside the room during dinner and a walk. Block the selected trading and market-discussion apps for that window and keep calls available. If the urge moves to a laptop, change the environment too. Review whether you completed the planned activity, not whether the market moved in your favour while you were away.
