What's your probation period for new rules?

New rules need a trial: adopted provisionally, run for a set number of trades, then kept or dropped on the evidence. Without the trial period, rules multiply and contradict.

What's your probation period for new rules? — drawdown and recovery diagram
An equity curve during a drawdown and its recovery

How do you trial rules?

  • how long a rule stays provisional
  • the evidence that keeps or kills it
  • the rule that failed its trial
What's your probation period for new rules? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The journal guide provides the trial's data.

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