Episode 3: Why Couldn't I Keep the Rules? The Answer Was in the Way I Waited

I have repeated the same mistakes many times before.

There are rules.

There are methods.

There is understanding as well.

Yet I still cannot keep them.

Every time I lose, I think,

“I’ll do it properly next time.”

“I won’t let emotions influence me again.”

But I end up repeating the same thing again.

Why is that?

The answer was simple.

My way of waiting was wrong.

I had believed for a long time that “staying patient and waiting” was correct.

But in reality, it was different.

The act of waiting itself

dulled judgment and blurred standards,

and ultimately broke the rules.

Facing a market that wasn’t moving,

“It might move soon.”

“There’s enough time…”

In that way, I were to break my own rules.

In other words, the problem wasn’t “weak will,”

but the “structure of waiting.”

So I changed my approach.

I stopped waiting.

What I did instead is this only.

・Open the chart

・Check if there is movement

・If not, end immediately

That’s all.

ATR is low.

Candles are small.

Only wicks.

I don’t trade on days like that.

I declare, “Today is a no-trade day.”

Then, curiously,

useless trades disappeared.

The way I lose changed.

And I realized something.

The most important thing in trading isn’t

“where to enter,”

but “deciding which days not to trade.”

The reason I couldn’t keep rules

was not that I was weak.

It was that I was in a structure that prevented keeping them.

If you’re struggling in the same way,

please take a moment to reassess your “waiting style.”

There’s no need to endure.

You just don’t do it.

That alone can change trading.

Judgment can be simple.

・If ATR is low, don’t trade

・If candles are small, don’t trade

・If there are many wicks, don’t trade

That alone will erase needless trades.