The Three Pillars

• Patience: Wait for asymmetric opportunities.
• Detachment: Accept variance without emotional swings.
• Adaptability: Adjust tactics to market regime.

Pillars labeled Patience, Detachment, Adaptability supporting a trading plan.

Patience: Engineering Fewer, Better Trades

Create scarcity by design: A-setup criteria, time windows, and level alerts. If you can’t describe your A-setup in 2–3 sentences, you don’t have one yet.

Detachment: Shrink the Emotional Loop

• Use fixed R risk per trade; avoid $-based sizing swings.
• Hide P&L during sessions; review results after close.
• Journal emotions with a 1–5 intensity scale.

Adaptability: Tactics by Regime

Categorize daily regime: trend, range, or breakout potential. Select tactics accordingly (trend: pullbacks; range: mean reversion; breakout: volatility expansion).

Regime–tactics matrix: trend, range, breakout vs entries, stops, targets.

Micro-Habits That Compound

• Two alarms: one to start, one to stop—protect recharge time.
• 5-trade sample before any parameter change.
• Weekly deletion: remove one low-value step from your routine.

If it isn’t measured, it isn’t managed.

Scorecard Template

• Patience Score: % of trades that were A-setups.
• Detachment Score: # of rule breaks tied to emotions.
• Adaptability Score: Correct regime tag vs. tactic.