There is no advantage in using it without validating the method
A Method Change Without Verification Is Just Infidelity
That is not improvement. Wandering from method to method is just infidelity.
When you start losing in trading, many people think, “Maybe this method isn’t suitable for me,” or “Wouldn’t another method win more?” Then they discard the method they’re using now and switch to a new one.
There are people who repeatedly make this switch. Try a method, lose a little, switch to another method. If that loses, switch again to yet another method.This is not improvement. It’s infidelity, wandering from method to method.
Changing methods in itself isn’t bad. The problem is“changing without verification.”They switch without confirming whether the current method is truly bad, relying on intuition alone. With this, no method can be mastered, and you’ll eternally continue the “holy grail search.”
Why do people wander from method to method
There is a common psychology among people who keep changing methods. It is“I want to blame the losses on the method.”This is the psychology.
When you lose, admitting that your approach is flawed is painful. Therefore, it’s easier to think, “The method is bad.” Blaming the method allows you to avoid reviewing your own skills and discipline. And then you switch with renewed hope to a new method.
But, in many cases, the cause of losses isn’t the method.The cause is that you aren’t using the method correctly.You haven’t followed the rules, your situational awareness is lax, you’re trading emotionally—these personal problems, left unaddressed, won’t change the outcome when you change methods. You’ll repeat the same failures with a different method.
Verify before changing the method
Whether you should change a method is decided by verification, not by feel. Before changing, confirm the following.
・Were you able to execute that method according to the rules?
・Did you test it a sufficient number of times? (Not deciding after only a few losses)
・Are the losses due to the method, or due to your own execution mistakes?
・Have you reviewed your records and analyzed loss patterns?
・Do you understand the intrinsic edge of that method in the first place?
Changing without verifying these is the same as infidelity.
What’s especially important is“whether you were able to execute it according to the rules.”. It’s often not that the method is bad, but that you cannot follow its rules. If you cannot follow the rules, what should change is not the method, but your own discipline.