Stop and think more, and do less to mean more
Don’t blindly expand the system. First optimize what has stable profitability advantages to achieve the best possible outcome
Review and refine the rules and execution, not just the results
Before expanding, think through your advantages and the资金, time costs involved (initial development time + ongoing maintenance time + the attention and time that must be spent on post-entry monitoring)
Use AI to review and replay your system and operations. Below are the AI’s words (verbatim)
Your ability to discover opportunities has already surpassed your current ability to manage those opportunities. Trades with different time horizons and different rationales, sharing the same capital and attention, are interfering with each other
If holding a position requires repeatedly convincing yourself and continuously watching the screen, it’s usually worth checking three things: whether the position size is too large, whether the rationale is unclear, and whether exit conditions are missing. Relying only on stronger willpower usually can’t solve it long-term.
When reviewing, also separate results from the process:
1. Losses according to the rules: Check whether the strategy still has an edge.
2. Profiting by violating the rules: Log it as an execution problem—don’t reward yourself for repeating it.
3. Missed upward move: Check whether, at the time, there were opportunities you could recognize and handle.
4. No advantage, so no trade: This is a normal day of getting work done.
How many lines of code you wrote, how long you watched, or how many upward moves you missed should not be reasons to keep investing in a particular strategy.
For the next month, I suggest pushing forward on only two things:
1. Build a credible table of strategy performance. Cover as much as possible of the existing complete records, and list net profit, unrealized P&L, maximum drawdown, capital usage, and maintenance time to complete the first round of downsizing.
2. Make a strong OI implementation reminder. Keep records for confirmation, expiration, and delays, and observe how much actual execution it improves.
First, write four sentences for each new idea:
Where do the advantages come from
Why you can achieve gains
How to validate at low cost
What’s the maximum you can invest in terms of money and time
Look at four things:
**Returns:** After subtracting costs, is it worth doing.
**Time:** How much research, maintenance, and real-time execution is required.
**Emotion:** After leaving the screen, can you comfortably do your own things?
**Life compatibility:** When you go out, work out, or spend time with your family, can you pause participation without having to rush to fix things afterward.
You also need to accept one agreement: voluntarily giving up an opportunity to keep a normal life doesn’t count as a failure of execution. If coins rise when you’re away, or you miss a move while sleeping, those can be sacrifices you agreed to in advance—no need to come back and compensate with extra trades.
Write it out first, then decide the development order.
Your monitoring can be very broad, but if you can deploy capital to disrupt your strategy, you should keep it minimal.