Part 4 · lesson 1 of 3

You write down the days you will not trade.

About 5 minutes.

Whose numbers these are

You have not picked a firm yet. So the figures below come from one firm’s published rules. Each one is named and dated where it appears. Pick a firm and the same lesson runs on your own numbers.

Put these in orderDeciding in advance which days you sit out — Evidence: practitioner frameworkCommon practitioner routine. No controlled study located. · read 2026-07-30

Put these in the order you would check them on a Sunday evening.

  1. 1Which hours are usually too thin to be worth it
  2. 2What is left, which is the week you actually have
  3. 3Which days have a scheduled announcement on them
  4. 4Which days are short or closed

That is the end of this one.

Next: You count how much of a week is actually worth trading.