How I decide whether Monday is worth trading

2 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the trader explains his habit of avoiding Monday trading. He cites a historically low Monday win rate—about 50% of his total losses occur on Mondays—making it significantly worse than the rest of the week combined. The core reason he gives is the typical absence of news on Mondays; without news, the market lacks the clean, large moves driven by smart money and institutional participants. Consequently, the probability of finding high‑quality setups on Mondays is much lower, leading him to skip trading that day.

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Why I tend to avoid Mondays. And the reason why I'm going to mention this is because yesterday we had someone ask me, what's your Monday win rate? And I'm like, dude, incredibly low. Historically speaking, I've lost about half of my trades on Monday, and then the other half is like the rest of the days combined. So it's not even close, basically. And the reason why this is the case is because majority of the time on Mondays you do not have news. And the reason why we want news, or ideally we want to be trading on a news day, is because we understand the biggest and cleanest moves in the market are probably going to happen when smart money, or like the big players or the institutions, get involved. Where there is no news, which tends to be Monday, your probability is going to be a lot lower.