“Plan your trade and trade your plan” (Wall Street adage)

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Entry from October 23, 2008

“Plan your trade and trade your plan” (Wall Street adage)

“Plan your trade and trade your plan” is a popular bit of investment wisdom, cited from at least the 1990s. “Plan your trade” means to prepare adequately; “trade your plan” means to execute that plan according to your preparations.

One 2000 citation (below) credits the adage to trader Eric Patterson. The similar expression “Plan your work and work your plan” dates to the 1880s and the scuba expression “Plan your dive and dive your plan” has been cited in print since 1970.

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plan your trade and trade your plan.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Day Trading Online
By Toni Turner
Published by Adams Media
2000
Pg. 163:
CHAPTER 9
Plan Your Trade and Trade Your Plan

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As Eric Patterson’s adage says, Plan your trade and trade your plan.

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Steidlmayer on Markets:
Trading with Market Profile
By J. Peter Steidlmayer with Steven B. Hawkins
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons
2002
Pg. 183:
Simply stated, plan your trade before you execute. And trade your plan after you execute.

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Trade Your Way to Wealth:
Earn Big Profits with No-Risk, Low-Risk, and Measured-Risk Strategies
By Bill Kraft
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons
2008
Pg. 13:
Hopefully, by the end of this book, you’ll have a plan in place so you can follow the old adage “plan your trade and trade your plan.”

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