How I decide whether Monday is worth trading

2 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, The Art Of Crypto explains why he deliberately steers clear of trading on Mondays. He cites his personal historical data showing an exceptionally low Monday win rate—about a 50% loss rate on Mondays, which is roughly equal to the combined loss rate of all other days. He attributes this poor performance to the typical absence of market-moving news on Mondays. According to him, news days generate the biggest, cleanest price moves because they attract participation from "smart money" such as large institutions and professional traders. Without news, the probability of favorable moves drops, making Monday trades riskier. The overall message is that avoiding Monday trading can improve overall performance by focusing on days with clear news catalysts.

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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.