Why i take fewer trades and why do i think taking fewer trades is better than trading every day?

This thought comes from comparing frequency with edge.

Lower timeframe 2–5% trades look attractive because they happen often, but most of them don’t have real asymmetric edge. You’re paying fees and mental energy again and again. Over time, that adds up.

I’m full-time trader, so my job is not to trade more, it’s to protect capital and deploy it only when probability is clearly in my favor.

Fewer trades doesn’t mean fewer returns. It means:

-less noise

-fewer mistakes

-better execution

-higher R:R

One high-conviction trade with size, taken from HTF levels, can outperform dozens of random LTF trades.

Also, most people underestimate how much not losing compounds. Avoiding bad trades is already a return.

Most day traders trade the entire week and usually end up giving all their gains back in one trade or one bad day.

I didn’t adopt the style of taking fewer trades when I started.

I’ve been trading for almost 10 years, and I made the same mistakes most traders make. I overtraded, I day-traded a lot, and I paid for it.

What I do now is the result of countless mistakes and losses.

Trading less wasn’t my starting point.

It was something the market forced me to learn.!