A short monologue (Kardec Trader) arguing traders should concentrate effort on the most productive market hours (notably the first 1–2 hours), since roughly 70–80% of profits may come from that window. The speaker recommends stopping trading later in the session when opportunities and execution quality decline, prioritizing probability management over chasing smaller remaining gains.
I mean, listen, I'm pretty sure there's people that sit for hours and hours and make money, but my thing is, where is 80% of your profits coming from? If 80% of my profits, or even 70% of my profits are coming the first two hours, I don't want what comes after. I'd rather take that time back, and I'd rather invest time and energy in the first hour two hours, make the 70%, leave the other 20 to 30% profit and call it a day. It's all about probabilities, right? Because after a certain time, once you're unable to think at a high level, once the market also doesn't give opportunities, the probability of good setups decline. Why would I want to put myself in an environment where the probability of great setups decline? And also I'm not there mentally in terms of execution.
