What do you do when your setup never appears?

Some days — even weeks — the market never offers your setup. Beginners fill the gap with worse trades; experienced traders treat the absence of setups as information.

How do you handle empty days?

• do you wait, or lower your standards?
• what tells you it's time to log off?
• the longest you've gone without a valid trade

This is overtrading in disguise, and the cure is usually a watchlist plus patience.