Market Analysis

The Rule You Can Actually Hand Over

An idea is not a rule. A rule is a sentence a stranger could follow without asking you a single question, and most of what people call a strategy fails that test in its first clause. Writing that sentence is a language job, which is the thing an assistant does best, and this paper spends its first third on how to get it written. Counting what the rule would have done is arithmetic, which is the second thing an assistant does best, and the middle third is how to run that count without the rule quietly changing shape while you look at the results. The last third is the part nobody automates: how much to risk, when to enter, and when to stop are decisions that need your account and your circumstances, and an assistant has neither and will answer anyway. Three papers end here, and the honest summary is that two of the three jobs can be handed over and one cannot.

Difficulty

Intermediate

Reading time

44 min

Pages

21