I think traders massively underestimate how much energy affects performance

decisions don’t happen because I’m emotional or because my strategy stopped working.
They happen because I’m mentally tired.
Not exhausted. Just slightly off.
The kind of day where everything feels normal, but you’re a little less patient, a little less selective, and a little more willing to justify a trade that isn’t really there.
What’s strange is that I used to blame the market for those days.
Now I think a lot of them had nothing to do with the market at all.
They were energy management problems disguised as trading problems.