Trading, waiting, and being in cash are all top-tier strategies.
This article is about my journey of discipline.
I hope you will also become someone who can endure idle time.
In the past, during that 80% of idle time, it was inevitable to feel anxious.
The market wasn't moving, my wallet wasn't growing, and a bunch of people on social media started making charts, telling stories, and switching tracks, as if as long as you don't get involved, you would be left behind.
That kind of anxiety was like a tide; you clearly knew that now was not the time to act, but you couldn't help but stare at the market, scroll through updates, and even FOMO into coins that you knew had no real value.
Later, I finally understood that this anxiety was not because the market wasn't giving opportunities, but because I didn't treat waiting as a strategy. Idle time does not equal useless time.
It is the best time to reorganize your models, examine your understanding, and look back at which judgments were wrong and which investments were due to luck.
During this phase, you can slowly clear away the illusion that "you must perform if you are present," and start to learn to accept: most of the time, your job is to observe and think, rather than participate and bet.
When I truly did this, my emotions began to stabilize.
I was no longer in a hurry to enter the market, nor did I doubt myself for not being in on the hot topics. Instead, I could see more clearly: which narratives could really materialize and which projects were still in the bubble.
Sometimes, when others are rushing in, I am sitting in cash; but when certainty comes, I dare to double down, because I know I have waited, thought, and prepared.
Most of the time in the crypto world is counterintuitive.
It forces you to act, but the real experts are often the calmest when no one is moving and only dare to act heavier when everyone is moving.
Now I no longer care about idle time, and I am even a bit grateful for it. It is a filtering mechanism that sifts out impatience and leaves only patience.
And I hope you become someone who can control your heart, manage your hands, and endure idle time.
