One thing FX side-hustle traders should do on weekends

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Today’s topic is “The one thing FX side-hustle traders should do on the weekend.”

Introduction

Weekdays are busy with work. There is little time to look at charts.
Even if you open the chart after returning home, the movement is already over.

“I feel like I’m being left behind” “Everyone around me is trading more and more”

I understand this feeling all too well.

Then comes Monday. “I’ll make up for it this week,” you resolve, and enter first thing in the morning.

But, please wait a moment.

Monday is a day with few opportunities. At the start of the week spreads tend to widen, and direction is unclear.
If you rush to enter on such days, you’ll just be trading against your rules.

So what should you do in the limited time on weekends to fundamentally improve your trading quality?

There is only one answer.

The one and only thing you should do is “backtesting”

What you should do on weekends is backtesting.
Some of you may feel, “I already know that.”

But “knowing” and “being able to apply” are completely different things.

Many traders, the moment they acquire a method or logic, think they will win. In reality, it takes at least 100 backtests for that logic to become ingrained in your hands.

Why 100 times?

10 or 20 times won’t reveal winning rates or patterns.
Only after 50 times do you start to grasp tendencies. After surpassing 100 times, your body remembers “this pattern tends to turn out this way.”

This is not knowledge but an internalized sense.

It’s easier to understand if you think of it in sports terms.
Reading a book about a basketball shooting form alone won’t win games.
You have to shoot hundreds of times and imprint it in your body before it becomes a usable skill.

Trading is exactly the same.

Two days on the weekend. If you spend that time on backtesting, the quality of trades from Monday onward will drastically change.

What I did after losing 10 million yen

I’m giving you a bold claim, but I only realized this after losing 10 million yen and even going into debt.

Back then, I hardly did any backtesting.
I’d find a new method, jump on it, and when I started losing a bit, switch to another method.

Classic “method-gypsy.”

I suffered big losses and took a break from trading for a while.
I didn’t even have the energy to look at charts.

But after some time, when I calmed down, I realized.

“The losses weren’t due to the market. It was me.”

From there, I spent weekends on backtesting alone.
Weekdays were for work. After returning home, I was too tired to trade.

But a few hours on the weekend could be secured.

It’s simple.
There’s no glamour at all.

Yet this accumulation fundamentally changed my trading.
As you backtest more, you will be able to judge “this moment is where I should enter,” “this moment I should skip” without thinking.

Mondays are no-trade days.

One concrete rule to apply from Tuesday onward, based on weekend backtesting.

Do not trade on Monday.
Just this reduces unnecessary losses dramatically.

Mondays often lack market participant activity, and movements have no clear direction. Spreads widen easily, and technically things are less reliable. Yet many traders rush into entries on Monday.

“I did weekend backtesting, so I want to try it soon.”

I understand that feeling.
But that urgency is exactly the cause of losses.

It’s sufficient to apply the weekend’s backtesting results from Tuesday onward.
On Monday, just look at the charts. Do environmental recognition. That’s enough.

There are days when doing nothing is the smartest trade.

Keeping a trading journal, as important as backtesting

Along with backtesting, there is one more thing to do on weekends.
Be sure to keep a record of your trades.

Reasons for entries, reasons for exits, the emotions at the time.
Just writing this down will reveal your trading “habits.”

It’s the losing trades that are the best teachers, more than winning ones.

“Why did I lose?”
“Was the rule followed?”
“Did I enter due to emotion?”

Reviewing the records helps prevent repeating the same mistakes.

When I started keeping a trade journal, I noticed something: losing trades have common elements.


In my case, I would try to make up for a losing streak by increasing the lot size, which led to big losses.
If I hadn’t reviewed the records, I would have continued this pattern for life.

Record-keeping is the greatest gift you can give your future self.



Ten minutes on the weekend is enough.
Review that week’s trades and write them down in your notebook.
Doing so will surely change your trades for the following week.

Summary

There is only one thing you should do on weekends: backtesting.
And if you add one more thing, keep a trading journal as well.

There’s no need to search for new methods or chase others’ trades on SNS.

It’s a plain, unglamorous task.
But this plain work of backtesting will change your future.

Do not rush on Mondays.
From Tuesday, face the chart with the sharpened eyes from backtesting.

The market tomorrow will come. Do not rush, take your time.

This weekend, first open the past chart for just one hour.
That will be the first step that changes your trading life.

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