Overtrading

More trades doesn’t mean more opportunity, it usually just means more chances to enter something outside the plan. Overtrading is what happens when trade count creeps up because of restlessness, not because the market is offering more valid setups than usual. It’s not about the number There’s no fixed trade count that separates a disciplined trader from an overtrading one, a scalper working a fast timeframe might take dozens of trades a day as a normal, planned part of their edge, while five trades could be too many for someone whose strategy is built around one or two clean setups a week. The number that matters is whether each entry still meets the same bar the strategy was built on, not how it compares to yesterday’s count or anyone else’s. ...