11. Community Ideas

Writing a method down, as we did in Chapter 10, is easier with examples to hand. How have other members expressed a stop that follows the price? How did someone combine a trend with a volume check? Community Ideas is where members publish their strategies and rules for other members to read, and to copy into their own Playbook if they wish.

The value is in the reading. A strategy someone else wrote is built around their own method: their capital, their thresholds, the kind of stocks they hold, the way they like to manage a position. Reading it shows you one way of writing a rule. Whether any part of it suits your own method is yours to judge, and a copy you adopt is yours to change.

We'll cover:

• finding ideas and adopting one into your own Playbook,
• and sharing a strategy of your own, which starts with describing it truthfully.

Let's start with finding and adopting.