Patience is the rarest skill in trading.
I am increasingly convinced that patience is the rarest, but also the most important, skill in trading.
You can learn to identify patterns, master technical indicators, and understand the logic of fundamental analysis, but if you lack the patience to enter, hold, and exit at the right moment, all those efforts can be destroyed by emotions and impulses.
Patience does not mean 'doing nothing' or 'waiting passively', but rather waiting with judgment and preparation.
And that is precisely the central skill that each of us, as traders, must cultivate and perfect.