Adrian Reid and Sam discuss when trading system development makes sense. Skip it if you're tired, negative, or exhausted—poor decisions follow. Do it only when mentally and physically ready, or stick with maintaining what you already have.
First of all, you don't, there's no compulsion, you don't have to keep doing the developing. If you can just maintain, do the maintenance and just, you know, follow the process and place the trades, you're ahead.
Of the game because you've already done some work that allows you will allow.
Your trading to grow, your account to grow as you follow the process. And the development is like nice icing on the cake. It's extra. So you do it when you can and you don't do it when you can't.
One of the things I've learned is.
That trying to do it when psychologically, emotionally, physically, I can't do it or I'm not in a state to do.
It just breeds frustration.
I find that I really need to.
Put myself in the right state, the.
Right mental and physical state to make it worth the time and effort.
If I sit down and I'm feeling.
Down, I'm feeling negative or I'm. I'm exhausted, I can't think clearly. Trying to do system development is hopeless.
You don't make good decisions, or at.
Least I don't, you know, I don't have creative ideas.
I don't make breakthroughs, so I think.
Forcing it is a bad idea. But learning and practicing, for me, what's really important is practicing, getting back into the state where I can do it.
And.
My solution was to do stood back from it. I changed the focus, I did some exercise, and I did something completely different, which started to free up my mind again and got me sort of back in the game, back a bit more positive. So we don't always have to be in the state to be developing and testing and back testing and so on. I think it's okay to admit we're.
Not in that state right now and do something else.
Sam.
