Trade Lifecycle Explorer

An interactive map of capital markets — six pillars, one lifecycle.

Live demo → https://bodhiprotocol.github.io/trade-lifecycle-explorer/

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Why this exists

The trade lifecycle is usually taught as a wall of text. This is the opposite: a lotus mandala of the six pillars that hold up every capital market, and an interactive walk through one equity trade — from order initiation to settled, reconciled record.

Built by a capital markets business analyst on one belief:

Understanding is downstream of making.

The six pillars

#	Pillar	One line
I	Market Structure & Participants	A market is a conversation. Know who is speaking.
II	Financial Instruments	Everything traded is a promise, shaped differently.
III	Trade Lifecycle	Born, matched, cleared, settled, remembered.
IV	Clearing & Settlement	Trust, made mechanical.
V	Risk & Compliance	The market's conscience, encoded.
VI	Technology & Data	The invisible loom on which every trade is woven.

Each pillar carries a BA Lens — what a business analyst actually does at that layer.

The lifecycle walk

Six stages of an Indian equity trade on the T+1 cycle:

Order Initiation → Execution → Capture & Enrichment → Clearing → Settlement → Post-Settlement

Each stage shows who acts, the key rule, the risk, and the BA's job there.

Tech

One self-contained index.html. No frameworks, no build step, no dependencies. Vanilla SVG + JS. Open the file, it works.

Part of BodhiProtocol

Tools and games that make complex systems simple. More at github.com/BodhiProtocol.