One system until it's consistent

There are different systems, but all of those systems have their own drawdown periods, have their own faults. Before I go trying to optimize — and by optimize I mean bounce around systems — I need to get this one down first. Consistent in my interpretations, consistent in my executions, and then we build from there once we observe consistency in ourselves.

— from my October 14 session notes

Why it's a principle

You can't judge a system you haven't run consistently. If the rules change every few weeks, the record measures the switching, not the system.

So changes here go through a process: an idea gets marked testing, the trades that test it are tracked, and it only becomes a rule when the record says it helps.