정오까지 거래 후 성과가 완전히 달라진 경험🕛

Biggest one for me was “no trade is mandatory.” Sounds obvious but I used to treat every session like I HAD to make something happen. Most of my bad trades came from forcing mediocre setups out of boredom.

Your time-of-day point is huge too. People underestimate how different market behavior is throughout the session. Morning volatility and liquidity can make a strategy look amazing, then the afternoon turns into chop and suddenly the exact same entries stop working. Journaling by time block honestly reveals stuff most traders never notice.

Funny enough it’s similar to building products or coding workflows too. A lot of improvement comes from removing low-quality actions instead of doing more. Tools like Cursor and Runable are great accelerators, but knowing when not to force output is still the real edge.

for indices i stick to this as well. just way more confidence in planning scenarios going into the open vs what will or won't stick after the initial runs. although on an especially good day i'm still holding morning entries into the PM.

I am not profitable at the moment :(

I found similar stats, but then I decided to break trades down by "time elapsed since first trade of day" and I found that I actually traded just fine later in the day when I STARTED the session late, but not when I have already been at my desk for hours.

I suspect, for myself, that those numbers were more due to losing focus and patience after hours at the computer rather than the actual market conditions. I cap my trading sessions at an hour now because of it.

The other key rule for me is walking away for five minutes after any loss. That keeps me away from the computer when I am most likely to do something stupid.