Trading is not just opening trades. Research, backtests, keeping a journal, analyzing past mistakes—these are all important tasks that help you grow.
🔮 But where is the line between useful preparation and self-deception disguised as productivity?
When a trader is constantly doing something but their results do not change, there is a high probability that they are not working on what actually brings progress.
❓ How to distinguish work from procrastination?
✂️ Work leads to specific conclusions and changes in trading.
Backtests are useful if decisions are adjusted afterward, not just accumulating test files.
✂️ Market research helps make decisions, not postpone them.
You can endlessly look at charts, but if it is not applied to real trading, it is pointless.
✂️ A trade journal is needed for improving trading, not just for show.
If after dozens of records a trader continues to repeat the same mistakes, it means they are spending time on data recording but not on understanding it.
In reality, work in trading is not just activity. It is actions that change something in approach, analysis, and thinking.
🗓 You can trade around the clock but still not get closer to stable results. The question is not how much time a trader spends, but what exactly they do during that time.