TraderTypes · TT4 · Provisional type
INFJThe Thesis Tracker
Build the longer thesis, but wait for price and facts to confirm it.
Turn the big-picture idea into one price trigger, one deadline, and one reason to walk away.
You may connect macro, sector, and sentiment clues well, yet a thoughtful thesis is not an executable trade. Time-box the research and require the market to confirm it.
What to practice first
- Theme-rotation observation
- Macro-driven swing hypotheses
- Pre- and post-event structure reviews
What to avoid for now
Ultra-short setups that demand split-second reactions, and holding a tactical trade simply because the long-term story still sounds right.
How losses usually begin
You wait for perfect confirmation until the planned entry is gone, or keep a trade alive after its time horizon and price logic have failed.
A simple execution template
- Entry
- Require both a price confirmation and a decision deadline
- Risk
- The richer the thesis, the simpler the risk boundary
- Exit
- Honor whichever arrives first: invalidation or the time stop
- Review
- Separate observed facts, interpretation, and forecast in the journal
If you are getting started
Reduce each idea to one trigger, one invalidation point, and one holding window. If any field is blank, keep it on the watchlist.
Once you have experience
Score the thesis components before entry and audit whether narrative confidence—not evidence—was driving size or holding time.
How you tend to make decisions
Clarity measures net lean; consistency measures how often answers agreed in direction. Neither represents confidence, ability, or personality strength.
- What comes naturallyFilters noise and builds an independent read
- Where it can go wrongCan keep researching after the decision is already actionable
- Your non-negotiable ruleSet a decision time and allow only three outcomes: act, watch, or pass.
- What comes naturallyConnects themes, scenarios, and second-order effects
- Where it can go wrongA clean story can feel finished before the evidence arrives
- Your non-negotiable ruleBefore entry, name one visible confirmation and one fact that would break the story.
- What comes naturallyReads incentives, narratives, and participant behavior
- Where it can go wrongCan become loyal to a founder, community, or meaningful story
- Your non-negotiable ruleSeparate respect from evidence and keep a private exit checklist.
- What comes naturallyTurns a plan into an executable sequence
- Where it can go wrongCan force a trade—or preserve a rule—after conditions change
- Your non-negotiable ruleCount “no trade” as a valid outcome. Change rules only after the session.
Practice paths to test first
The order answers what to paper-test first. It reflects schedule, review habit, answer pattern, and execution risk—not expected profit.
Position trend trading
A slower trend-following style that waits for confirmation and checks positions on a set schedule.
This is a practice idea, not a recommendation. Take the full assessment first—your schedule, experience, and review habits can change the answer.
- Time horizon to testSeveral weeks to months
- Where to startPaper-test liquid broad or sector ETFs and large, actively traded companies without leverage.
- Main watch-outBefore entry, write both the price stop and the fact that would prove the thesis wrong.
Another profile may fit in a different setting
One or more preference pairs landed near the middle. Read these nearby profiles as alternate contexts, not competing verdicts.
It does not know your finances, goals, tax situation, risk capacity, market knowledge, costs, or actual trading skill. Those factors must be assessed separately before any real-money decision.
Start with personality. Finish with a process you can actually test.
The same four letters can lead to a different practice window, starting market, derivatives boundary, and stop rule when schedule or experience changes.