Fast-forward a few months.

It’s May.

Season finished.

And there are two versions of how this could've gone.

Version one:

You tried 19 strategies.

Changed rules every time something lost.

Spent half the season wondering whether you were unlucky...

or the strategy was rubbish...

or your entry was wrong...

or the market changed...

or Mercury was in retrograde.

And you finish the season with roughly the same questions you started with.

Then there’s version two.

You had ideas.

You tested them.

Most were probably rubbish.

Good.

You found that out.

Some looked interesting.

So you refined them.

Tested them again.

And when you eventually traded them live, you had an actual reason for doing so.

Not:

“Dave in the Telegram group reckons this one is decent.”

Actual evidence.

That's the season I want you to have.

Not necessarily perfect.

Not 38 weekends of uninterrupted green screens.

Just a season where you finish knowing more than you did when you started.

With strategies you've tested.

Rules you understand.

And fewer random punts disguised as “trades”.

If that sounds like a better way to spend this season: