Build a trading system someone else could run
From three words most material uses interchangeably to a written document you could hand to a stranger. The test at the end is not profit — it is whether someone else could follow it and get your trades.
Before this path
- Risk first: decide what you can lose before you think about winningA system is a set of rules plus the risk they are sized by. Arrive with a risk cap, a stop method and a way to score a record, or the document you write here has a hole where its most-used section should be.
What you will be able to do
- Separate a setup, a strategy and a system, and say which one you are missing
- Tell a discovery from a coincidence in a backtest, before you fund it
- Write the seven sections of a plan, including the two that do the work
- Run a repeatable pre-market routine and keep a journal your broker cannot produce
The path, in order
- Setup, Strategy, System — Three Words, Three Scopes, and No Agreed DefinitionVocabulary first, because the rest of this path is unreadable without it. Three scopes, not three quality levels.Risk & trading system8 min read
- Trading System vs Strategy — Why Consistency Has to Come Before ProfitWhy the distinction is worth the trouble: an undivided approach cannot be repaired, because you cannot tell which part stopped working.Risk & trading system10 min read
- Does Your Trading System Fit You? — The Testable Half of a Trading-Psychology VideoBefore choosing rules, the constraint on which rules you will actually follow. Broken rules are usually somebody else's rules.Risk & trading system10 min read
- Twenty Trading Strategies in Twelve Minutes — How Many Are Actually Different?A survey of the field, treated as an index rather than a to-do list — twenty names, far fewer genuinely different ideas.Risk & trading system10 min read
- Backtest a Trading Strategy Without Fooling YourselfThe practical step first: turn one rule into a replay, include costs, test nearby settings and keep a final period unseen. You cannot be warned off a mistake in a procedure you have not met.Risk & trading system7 min read
- Why Your Backtest Looks Better Than Your AccountImmediately after the survey, because it explains why most of the results quoted in surveys like that one do not survive contact with new data.Risk & trading system10 min read
- The Turtle Trading Rules: What a Two-Week Course Actually TaughtOne complete, published, testable system in full. Read it as the worked example of everything above: entries, exits, sizing and the pyramid, all specified.Risk & trading system11 min read
- What a Complete Trading System Actually Requires — Build It for Your Worst DayThe general form of that example, with the design constraint stated: build it for your worst day, because the disciplined version of you is not who shows up.Risk & trading system11 min read
- Your First Trading Plan — Seven Sections, and the Two That Do the WorkThe checklist as a document you actually write. Seven sections, and an honest account of which two carry the weight.Risk & trading system11 min read
- How Many Markets Should You Actually Trade?The question the routine raises but does not answer: how wide the scan should be. Also the point at which total risk, rather than per-trade risk, becomes the number that matters.Risk & trading system5 min read
- A Trading Journal Records What Your Broker CannotCloses the loop: the journal is the only record of why you pressed the button, which is the one thing the broker statement cannot tell you later.Risk & trading system6 min read
- A Trading System Will Not Make You Money — What It Actually DoesThe capstone, argued across five of the guides above rather than from an outside source. It only reads correctly once you have met them — and it is the check on what the document you just wrote can actually be expected to do.Risk & trading system12 min read
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Tracks this path draws on
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