Resistance-audit for trading rule construction

What resistance looks like

Resistance is the reflex to block a new idea, person, or way of working before checking whether the change would help or harm the decision process.

A resistance-audit is a short self-check that records why, how, and under what beliefs a trader is refusing a change. Resistance can be logged as an observable event: what the trader does, says, and feels while blocking a person or idea.

Open with a habit classification

An opening classification asks whether the trader usually rejects new ideas, accepts them quickly, or sits between those habits, and how far they will take ideas from outside their usual circle.

The same review asks which changes in work or personal practice feel most upsetting and whether the trader recognizes patterns such as low self-regard, insecurity, self-undermining, or cynicism.

Check the block when it appears

When resistance appears, the trader checks whether they feel threatened, pressured, or placed in the wrong, and whether the blocked idea would actually help or harm them.

Write the two belief lists

Writing short phrases that define the self is used to reveal the beliefs a trader holds about their own identity. That writing is the self-belief-list.

Writing down assumed truths about life and people is used to reveal beliefs about how things are or ought to be. That writing is the world-belief-list.

Keep one decision-procedure

The decision-procedure is the combined set of entry, exit, and sit-out rules treated as one testable process.

Editorial. Once resistance is logged, it can sit with rule inputs, market state, and execution constraints, so sitting out is written into the same procedure as entry and exit.