Tackle Today: Sherlock Holmes Part II
September 5, 2018
≈ Data, data, data, I cannot make bricks without clay. ≈
Last week we had the good fortune of reading a post shared by one of our members in the Clubhouse, David Ciporkin. From that masterpiece of trading wisdom, we want to highlight 2 parts that stood out for us:
1) The use of words that every new trader needs to include in their personal trading dictionary right from the start:
– “Trading plan”
– “Baseline Reward/Risk Ratio”
– “Money Management”
– “Forward tested, backtested, and stress tested”
– “Trader Psychology”
2) “[…] if you want to get to the next level and improve and be consistent, then you have to have rules, and you have to keep statistics and record EVERYTHING you can in the beginning. Make a monster Excel sheet. Learn from your WINNERS. See what all the big winners had in common, and add that as a rule. […] This will maximize your “Reward”. Now, look at what your big LOSERS have in common, and add a rule to your trading plan which will eliminate those. Now you have optimized your “Risk.”
David is like Mr. Holmes: he wants to investigate all the details in his positions. He wants to discover what works and doesn’t. He wants to gather all the available evidence to explain why his winners are winners and losers are losers. He wants to build a story that makes sense. And for that, he needs data.
Data, data, data, you can’t make bricks without clay.
Read the full post here.
Chart of the Day
David Ciporkin spreadsheet
Last week, David Ciporkin, a member of our community, posted the screenshot above on the Clubhouse. We want all of our students to get inspired by David’s dedication to his trading data. Without journaling, breaking and analyzing your data, you will be building nothing more than castles made of sand. Read the full post here.
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