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Boredom Trading Costs More Than Bad Setups

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Re: Boredom Trading Costs More Than Bad Setups

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An interesting counterpoint to the hard-cap advice that is common on this board. The practical difficulty is recognising an exceptional day while it's happening rather than at the end of it, because overtrading days often feel like exceptional days at 10:00.

One structure that keeps the upside you describe: no limit on trade count, but a hard daily loss limit, no increase in size intraday, and a quick check after every fifth ticket. "Are the last five trades all A setups from the plan?" If yes, continue. If any was a stretch, the session switches to A-setups-only. That keeps outlier days open without letting a poor day spiral.
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