Tradecraft: How I play the odds in constructing trades

I've spent the past year in a major reworking of how I trade, and as a result, my trading rules have grown increasingly distant from what I actually do.

Time for an update.

Whereas my prior "constitution" for trading was famed as rules, the new version is built as a process, something to guide the craft of constructing trades.

Hence the title: Tradecraft.

It has a step-by-step walk through of what I do, from initial screening to the entering the trade and beyond to exiting the trade. I've added a section of notes that discuss why I do things the way I do, and a list of links that point to reading that discusses the basic concepts that lie behind my methods.

Tradecraft can be read here as a Google Drive document, and a link will appear at the bottom of all Private Trader posts beginning Monday.

-- Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Sept. 27, 2015

References

Tradecraft: Playing the odds to build winning stock market trades from options, a description of how I trade, can be read here.

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Tim Bovee, Private Trader tracks the analysis and trades of a private trader for his own accounts. Nothing in this blog constitutes a recommendation to buy or sell stocks, options or any other financial instrument. The only purpose of this blog is to provide education and entertainment.

No trader is ever 100 percent successful in his or her trades. Trading in the stock and option markets is risky and uncertain. Each trader must make trading decision decisions for his or her own account, and take responsibility for the consequences.

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