The markets do not reward your actions (How many trades you place). Its rewards your rationale (How well you implement your strategy).
On slower weeks, Especially when you trade for a living, It is easy to get the urge to violate your risk management principles and place additional trades to make up for the lack of liquidity or movement in the markets.
Now placing trades isn't destructive but violating your risk management principles are. It can become a habit, Just because there is a lack of movement in the markets (and by extension your account balance) an individual wants to compensate by placing more trades to create a greater change in their account balance and profits.
Over-leverage and over-risking and ruined many fortunes much vaster than yours. Look at Bill Hwang, the founder of Archegos capital management. He turned $200 Million Dollars into $20 Billion in a matter of years using extremely high risk and leverage. Due to afew poor decisions and misplaced hope he lost all that fortune in just two days.
Creating a fortune just to lose it all is a pointless activity which no one intends to do. However it happens because of miscalculations and faulty/unsustainable practices.
Trade and invest sustainably to grow your fortunes, Finance is a marathon not s sprint, you want to run as fast as you can but you don't want to run out of energy half way through the race.
Don't build your foundation on faulty principles and practices because then you'll learn the hard way why those principles and practices are put in place to begin with.
Warren buffets Berkshire Hathaway doesn't control a trillion dollars in assets because Warren and Charlie Munger through money at everything with leverage. They control a trillion dollars in assets because the make the right investments at the right time.
Do that and you'll have a longer, easier, more sustainable and profitable trading career in general.
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