The Shortest Path to Results: Practice Method #12

Why Practicing Alone Feels Like a Detour

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In the previous #11,the quality of reflectionswas discussed.
Hide the results and judge only. Identify a single misaligned time frame. Fix only one thing in a week.

However, this reflection has one limitation.

Your own misalignment is hard to notice by yourself.

This time, I’ll share why practicing alone tends to be a detour, and how to avoid it.

Your misalignment isn’t visible to you

What you judge yourself to be doing makes sense to you internally.

“I entered because I thought it was a pullback on the 1-hour chart.”
The reasons are written. I intend to follow the standard.

But when viewed on the 4-hour chart, it was precisely a place where selling rallies tend to occur.
In this kind of misalignment,as long as you’re looking with your own standards, it will look correct.

Practicing writing reasons (#9) and practicing reflection (#11) are both very important.
But if the reasons themselves are off, you won’t notice it by yourself.

Three common detours when practicing alone

1) You repeat with the misaligned standard

Even if you backtest 100 times, if the standard is off, you’ve practiced 100 times with wrong judgments.
The more repetitions, the more the misalignment sinks in.

2) You convince yourself that because you won, it was correct

You entered off the standard, but happened to win.
Alone, you’re prone to remember it as “it went well.”

3) You hesitate and your hands stop

Continuing to practice without knowing if it’s correct is painful.
Without a validation, practice can stall, or you’ll want to change methods frequently.

What changes when an outside eye is involved

Having someone else review with the same standard changes how you progress in practice.

• They clearly point out the misaligned time frame: one fix within a week can be correctly chosen
• They say losses are “not a big deal” when following the standard: you won’t need to change your method every time you lose
• You can notice lucky wins: you’ll also notice the misalignment in winning trades

Practice amount × quality of reflections × outside eye.
When these three align, detours drop substantially.

How to incorporate outside eyes

① Write the reasons in words that a person can understand

From daily chart to 4-hour to 1-hour to 5-minute, one sentence each.
A memo that only you understand won’t be clear to others.

② Have someone who sees with the same standard review it

Opinions from people with different standards can become sources of doubt.The key is to have someone who shares the same view review it.
The key is to have someone who shares the same view review it.

③ Take only one critique

Many comments can’t be fixed at once.
Pick the biggest misalignment, and fix it for one week.

④ If you want to push back, revisit your records

If you think, “But that time…”, review the records written from the daily chart.
Most often, the misalignment is written there.

What to do today

• Choose one of the most recent losing trades (backtest okay)
• From daily to 4-hour to 1-hour to 5-minute, write the reasons in words a person can understand
• Prepare for someone with the same standard to review it
• If you receive a critique, pick one and fix it for a week

Summary

• Your misalignment looks correct to you as long as you view with your own standard
• Practicing alone tends to detour through repeated misalignment, lucky wins, and hesitation
• When an outside eye sees with the same standard, you can correctly identify what to fix
• Receive only one critique and fix it in a week

Next time, the final chapter is here.
#13【FINAL】“The shortest way to practice is to repeat with the correct standard.”
I will summarize the previous 12 into one piece.

Pursue correctness over win rate.
Correctness is honed by outside eyes.

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