Jukebox wrote: ↑Fri Sep 21, 2018 10:24 am
This became a heavily redacted thread all of a sudden.
Almost as good as that thread where everyone was sharing their edges!
Very interesting thinking too Simon with regard to you adding efficiency/inefficiency, I agree you are a living enigma
Don't worry about the evolving markets until you're sitting in the current, risk a couple of quid and do the October challenge (Love the OCD name!).
I do understand what you mean though, I know when my data gets gathered I will do A, B and C with it and I know what my second round of tests will be after, if step 1 shows anything positive. After that I know I would like to add this and that (I have a list of about 8 next phases for this system) but after Step 1 if anything positive emerges I will risk it with a small amount of money that I am willing to lose. I have no heart-ache if it is gone, it's a sort of investment in my learning. Then it just continues to be a numbers game but the numbers are now real. If I lose XX amount, back to step 0, it works then I will go through my phases looking to improve and scale it up.
I was one of the lead musicians at secondary school a few years ago and when it came to songwriting I could never finish a song because I just kept tweaking things until the entire structure, chord progression, genre etc changed. When starting to trade, I was adamant that that would not be my downfall. It's purely a fun Maths project I do daily where I'm trying to return the biggest numbers I can from a live evolving puzzle. If I crack it then money will change my life, if I don't then I'll continue as a teacher with this as a bit of fun in the evenings. I enjoy playing with small stakes at half terms and weekends too, just to examine the beast that is the markets.
Ps probably never managed to write a full album because of the girls in my class, can't think of a metaphor for this though. Especially when the distraction (blonde and leggy) to something I wanted to do (song writing) actually turned out to be more fun.