I find myself doing the exact same, working more during the drawdown. I think I do it because psychologically it makes me think that “ok, I am understanding what happened. It makes sense I’m in drawdown”, even if I as usual I make no changes.
My system is fully automated, so very easy to just leave it for long periods.
I found automating my metrics, in particular tracking against benchmarks (BTC/top x coins), so first thing I do each morning is look at that benchmark tracking, then at the trades (if any), to understand whether I “should“ have made money or not. Also gives me a routine to do in both good and bad times.
I have a regime filter, so watching the indexes go down, whilst my bot doesn’t lose money is as pleasurable as watching it make money in good times.
The only upside I see to leaving it to work is that it keeps you from interfering. I believe in the core ideas of my system so I try not to interfere often. IMO you have to let the system run for a while to get some understanding of how it behaves/will behave. I research all the time (sometime more than other times), but I typically let it go for a few cycles of run ups/drawdowns, then apply any new changes. So like a 2 or 3 month change process.
I find myself doing the exact same, working more during the drawdown. I think I do it because psychologically it makes me think that “ok, I am understanding what happened. It makes sense I’m in drawdown”, even if I as usual I make no changes.
My system is fully automated, so very easy to just leave it for long periods.
I found automating my metrics, in particular tracking against benchmarks (BTC/top x coins), so first thing I do each morning is look at that benchmark tracking, then at the trades (if any), to understand whether I “should“ have made money or not. Also gives me a routine to do in both good and bad times.
I have a regime filter, so watching the indexes go down, whilst my bot doesn’t lose money is as pleasurable as watching it make money in good times.
The only upside I see to leaving it to work is that it keeps you from interfering. I believe in the core ideas of my system so I try not to interfere often. IMO you have to let the system run for a while to get some understanding of how it behaves/will behave. I research all the time (sometime more than other times), but I typically let it go for a few cycles of run ups/drawdowns, then apply any new changes. So like a 2 or 3 month change process.