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How I Built Patience in Trading (And Why It Changed Everything)

How you can build patience so you can really use it in trading

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iamflowtrader
Mar 15, 2026
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Over all social media people talk about patience in trading, but honestly most of them talk about it just because it sounds good. It is something like that you need to be disciplined so you don’t need the motivation to go to the gym. These concepts are so broad that almost anyone can talk about it even if they do no thave close experience with that. So I would like you to give you some “hindsight” on how I think that I built the patience myself. Because I was not always like this. I am the ADHD kid who couldn’t sit on one place when I was younger and just couldn’t wait for anything. But right now I am willing to wait weeks for trade withou taking stupid trades and also I am trading swing positions, so I hold trades longer than a week in many cases.

For me, patience is not something I developed directly in front of charts. With experience in the charts it gets better, but before that you need to try to build it in your life first.

Since I was quite hungry for being patient, I tried many …

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