Overcoming Analysis Paralysis Trading Journal

NexusFi · 2014-02-21T13:37:33-05:00

well, thanks cashish for the link. i skimmed through it and i guess there is both benefit and drawback to my mental gymnastics. the obvious drawback is that i always on instist on understanding "everything" in toto before i do something which means i will never take off and always keep finding excuses and distractions from starting... i understood long ago that i do not have the psychological makeup for this trading (discretionary and perhaps even mechanic )and plan was to automate the stuff...yet …

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Updated February 21, 2014

Overcoming Analysis Paralysis Trading Journal

February 21st, 2014, 01:37 PM	#21 (permalink)
tihfa detroit, mi Elite Member Experience: Beginner Platform: TradeStation Trading: SPY Posts: 78 since Nov 2011 Thanks Given: 1,524 Thanks Received: 80	so idea is to put some filters/context without too many rules to get PF above 2.0 for every year so that in worst case scenario I would break even around PF 1.0.... second thought was to try to find common denominator among various setups that yield somewhat similar curve and PF/W % numbers. except this turned into a never ending optimization curve fitting.... I guess I don't know anymore what system numbers I should before I should start trading???