Mindset & Discipline
The hardest trade is the one you don’t take.
Steve Clark, a student of legendary trader Mark Fisher, used to trade every day — oil, currencies, stocks, anything that moved. He lived inside the screen, chasing setups that seemed full of opportunity.
One morning, his mentor told him something that changed his career:
“You’re trying too hard to see movement. Try to see stillness.”
Steve decided to test it — he spent an entire week without taking a single trade, only observing. What he saw shocked him: most of what he used to call ‘setups’ were just noise, manufactured by market makers to provoke reaction.
When he returned to trading, he entered less often but with far more clarity. That year, he made more profit than in the previous three years combined.
“The hardest part of trading,” he said later, “is not acting when the market invites you to act.”
Sometimes the most powerful position you can take — is none at all. The quiet days are when your discipline grows roots.
— Tabiki Invest Journal