Trading, waiting, and being out of the market are all top-tier strategies. This article is about discipline and mindset.
I hope you will become someone who can endure idle time.
Before, during those 80% of idle times, I inevitably felt anxious.
The market wasn't moving, my wallet wasn't growing, and a bunch of people on social media started making charts, telling stories, and switching tracks. It felt like if you didn't participate, you'd be left behind.
That anxiety was like a tide. You knew it wasn't the time to act, but you couldn't stop checking the charts, scrolling through updates, and even FOMOing into coins that you knew had no value.
Later, I finally realized that this anxiety wasn't because the market wasn't giving opportunities, but because I hadn't treated "waiting" as a strategy. Idle time is not useless time.
It's the best time to reorganize your models, examine your understanding, and review which judgments were wrong and which investments were luck.
During this stage, you can slowly clear away the illusion that you "must perform just by being present" and start learning to accept that most of the time, your job is to observe and think, not to participate and bet.
When I really did this, my emotions started to stabilize.
I stopped rushing into the market, stopped doubting myself just because I wasn't on a hot trend. Instead, I could see more clearly which narratives were truly viable and which projects were still bubbles being blown.
Sometimes, when everyone else is rushing in, I'm out of the market. But when certainty comes, I dare to bet double, because I know I've waited, thought, and prepared.
Most of the time in the crypto world, things are counter-intuitive.
It forces you to act, but the real masters are often the calmest when no one else is moving, and only dare to move heavier when everyone else is.
Now I no longer care about idle time, and I even appreciate it a little. It's a screening mechanism that filters out impatience and leaves patience behind.
And I hope you become someone who controls your mind, manages your hands, and can endure idle time.
