The trading book
The Swing Trader
A faster clock. The same discipline. A shorter horizon is not permission to improvise. The process just runs tighter, with the exit set before the entry.
Where it sits
A shorter clock, run alongside the long-term portfolio and never instead of it.
Who does this for a living
A trading desk
Known for it
Paul Tudor Jones
The loop
Read, thesis, decision, review.
Read
The setup and the context, filtered through a method, not a feeling.
Thesis
A short-horizon view, with the invalidation set before you enter.
Decision
A sized entry and a rule to leave. The impulse meets your process first.
Review
Grade the execution, not the outcome. Compound the discipline, not the luck.
The problem
The plan survives right up until the position is open.
You know the setup, you know where you are wrong, and you know what size is sensible. Then the entry fills, the clock starts, and all three get renegotiated in real time against a moving screen. The problem is not that you have no method. It is that the method is not written down anywhere it can outvote you.
Planned. Not started.
It is in the plan and it is not being written yet. The ones already on the desk go first. What comes after them is decided with the founding cohort, so joining now is how you move this one up the order.
Get serious
Discipline beats impulse. Process beats luck.
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