{{tag>wip}} ====== How to develop a trading method ====== To achieve consistently stable earnings, every trading method must be reproducible. Furthermore, such methods need to be updated frequently, as the market changes daily. There's no end of method development. ===== Basic cycle ===== A method must be evaluated and improved as frequent as possible. After the evaluation, it should be updated to improve. There are 2 ways to evaluate: by expectation or by performance. ^way^evaluation timing^ |expectation|right after creation or updates of the method| |performance|right after position close| :create new method; repeat:evaluate the expectation; backward:update the method; repeat while (is the expectation good?) is (bad) not (good); repeat:execute trade; :create a report of the last trade; :evaluate the performance; if (is the performance good?) then (bad); repeat:update the method; :evaluate the expectation; repeat while (is the expectation good?) is (bad) not (good); else (good); writing... ==== Expectation Evaluation ==== ==== Performance Evaluation ==== ===== Documentize ===== ==== Method ==== ==== Method Evaluation Report ==== ==== Trading Report ====