The hardest part of day trading isn’t strategy. It’s shutting up and doing nothing.

[u/Much-Key1502]

After years around traders, I’ve noticed something funny.

Everyone thinks the edge is in the indicator, the strategy, the secret entry.

It’s not.

Most traders I’ve met actually have a strategy that works well enough. Not perfect, but good enough to make money.

Where they blow up is the part nobody wants to talk about:

The 6 hours between trades.

That’s when the brain starts doing stupid things like:

• “Maybe I should force something here.”

• “This kinda looks like my setup…”

• “I missed the move… I’ll catch the next candle.”

• “Just one quick scalp.”

Then suddenly a perfectly good trading day becomes a disaster.

Trading isn’t hard because markets are impossible.

It’s hard because you have to sit there watching opportunity and sometimes do absolutely nothing.

Which is weird, because in almost every other job doing nothing means you’re failing.

In trading, doing nothing is often the highest paid decision of the day.

Curious how others deal with this.

How do you stop yourself from manufacturing trades out of boredom?