The Art of Waiting. Wait without waiting 🤚🧵 Most of a trader's job is waiting. To improve the quality of work, one must master the art of waiting. A thread explaining how to wait ↓ 1/7
2/7 Many novice traders become anxious when not participating in the market and tend to force trades, which is a big mistake. A trader's job is to use a validated system with an edge to collect a large sample of trades under the same conditions and maximize the system's edge. To
3/7 To leverage the law of probability, a large sample size is necessary, but many people misunderstand this and think "I must trade a lot." The more you try to increase the number, the more forced trades you'll make. This is because the number of trades is not something you can
4/7 You must narrow down the trades you should make and only trade at the points with the most edge. Even if narrowing down to the points with the most edge results in fewer trades, making only a few trades a week or even no trades in a week, that's not a problem. Even if there
5/7 Traders who cannot wait may have vague rules, lack understanding of their strategy, or may not properly grasp probabilistic thinking or the law of large numbers. If you fully understand what positively influences trading results, you will never engage in behavior that lowers
6/7 If you thoroughly make all necessary preparations and clearly recognize the trader's job, you can naturally wait. There's no sense of impatience. Because you know you're doing the right thing. By the way, while waiting for trades, I feel no impatience and don't think about
7/7 The recognition that doing nothing is the right thing to do now, and the ability to "just wait without any impatience" is an invisible but significant skill that separates excellent traders from others. Let's build our trade samples over time, carefully executing only the