Adrian Reid explains that trading ideas often arise spontaneously during unrelated activities (coding, teaching, interacting) rather than when forcing creativity at the desk. He recommends capturing those ideas in a persistent list so that when sitting down to test systems you can efficiently select and evaluate recorded ideas.
Great trading ideas don't necessarily come when you expect them. Now, I was working on some code and some ideas to share with you guys during the session and I just, I had this little epiphany of, oh, if I just do that, if I just make this one little change, I think that'll make a big difference. And I made the change and was like, it worked really well. So I was so excited about it and I wasn't really trying to develop a new system, I was just trying to share some concepts and that's when the epiphany came to me. Same for you. When you're learning, when you're growing, when you're sharing, when you're interacting with traders, that's when the ideas will come. Because it's the external inputs often that stimulate these great ideas. Does that make sense?
I find when I sit down at my computer, let's come up with a trading idea. Go. Doesn't actually work so great, but if I've got my list of ideas that I've captured when I'm doing lots of different types of things, then when I sit down at the computer, I go, let's test a trading idea. And then I look at my list, I choose one and I test it. Far more efficient approach.
