🎯 Friday Fuel-Up: The Power of Sitting Out

Here’s the truth most traders don’t wanna hear: Not trading is sometimes the best trade you’ll ever make.

Think about it. Constant trading isn’t discipline, it’s desperation. The market isn’t a slot machine you keep pulling until you hit jackpot. It’s a battlefield. And every time you step in without your edge, you’re walking into crossfire with no armor.

👉 If your setup isn’t there, don’t trade.

👉 If the market feels off, don’t trade.

👉 If your head’s not right, definitely don’t trade.

Being flat doesn’t mean you’re losing. It means you’re protecting capital, your energy, and your focus for the setups that truly matter.

I’ll give you an example. I was on a work trip in Seattle all week and didn’t take a single manual trade. Not one. Instead, I set up my automated algo software each morning, literally while I was in the bathroom, and let it do its thing. Fifteen minutes of prep. Zero overtrading. And guess what? It was very profitable. Profitable enough for me to request a Payout on 2 PA accounts again!

That’s the lesson. This game isn’t about how often you trade, it’s about how well you prepare and how disciplined you are in sticking to process.

The greats don’t measure their success by activity, they measure it by patience. This isn’t a get-rich quick scheme. It’s about compounding smart decisions over months, years, and decades. Wealth built slow is wealth built strong.

So next time you feel that itch to “do something,” remember: your edge isn’t in the number of trades, it’s in the quality of them.

🚀 You don’t need to trade every candle to win. You need to protect your capital long enough to let the right ones find you.

- Coach Stephen

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