If you’ve been using Earnings-Reminder to set your earnings report and ex-dividend date reminders – that’s great! We hope you’re finding them to be useful in your work-process, and that you’re able to use them as a feedback loop to help you adjust your position sizing before it’s too late. We’ll continue to make improvements on that side of things, and of course, if you have questions or feedback on what you’d like to see changed, we’d like to hear from you. With that being said, you may have noticed we’ve turned our more recent development attention toward adding new features to the site. While it may not be obvious yet, the purpose of the work we’ve been doing is to support the wider vision we have for Earnings-Reminder.
We want Earnings-Reminder to be a resource that our members can use to accelerate and improve their investment and trading workflow, and keep them on track with their analysis.
For me, staying on track means having a purposeful and consistent workflow that I can measure against, and which enables me to improve my consistency. We also want to give members who haven’t been working in the markets long a process to go from zero, to making informed trades. As Dr. Steenbarger puts it, we can’t control whether any individual trade will be a winner, but we can control how much we are willing to bet on each trade. And it’s hard to allow those things to occur if you’re not deliberate with your workflow… identifying targets, stops, entries, and tracking when you’ve reviewed what. I know lots of us use different tools to manage our workflow… our trading platforms, collections of spreadsheets, Evernote, and so on. If it’s working for you, and you’re apply rigor… keep it up. Our goal for Earnings-Reminder is to give you a resource to automate some of that rigor, and help improve your consistency. We’re not there yet, but we’re working on it, and will keep you posted as we make improvements.
