Boring is Profitable

Can you imagine yourself laying bricks, all alone, day by day, for hours, just to build up an endless wall (think of the Great Wall of China)?

If not, you’ve got a problem: trading might not be for you.

Two Things All Successful Traders Share

There are two things I keep seeing over and over again in every trader who consistently makes money:

• They hardly get excited.

  Patiently waiting for hours, or sometimes days, for your setup to occur can be a painfully boring experience.

• They grind through routine.

  Consistent profit-making requires a brutal amount of work with charts and numbers.

Let’s be honest—both of these can be numbingly boring. Instead of bricks, you’re just stacking charts and crunching data.

Trading for a profit is real work. And it’s mentally tough.

If you treat it like an adventure—get excited, take shortcuts—you’re statistically going to lose your entire portfolio.

Maybe not today, but eventually.

Be Bored Like Adam Mancini

Adam Mancini is a full-time futures trader from Canada. He trades only the S&P 500 futures contracts.

And he has a message for you.

Reading Adam’s daily newsletter is a real litmus test for your trading focus.

Why? Because it repeats. A lot. And that’s the point. That’s trading.

• Endless repetition of the same setup

• Endless waiting for the right market conditions

• Endless struggle to shut out all the noise

Not exactly fun, right? But that’s what works.

Here’s one of the weirdest truths about trading:

But the more excited you get about that, the faster the market takes your money.

Stay boring. Stick to the plan. Do the dull stuff every day.

And the money stays with you—and grows.

How to Get Bored

If you’re struggling with overexcitement, here’s an easy fix:

Prime your mind for boredom.

Priming’s just setting the vibe for your brain before the session starts. Use music, words, visuals—whatever helps you zone into discipline mode.

Here are a few methods that work:

• Mental rehearsal

  Visualize yourself staying calm and following your trades without impulsive decisions.

• Soothing audio

  Play a track that calms you and repeat: “Patience equals profit.”

• Rule review

  Go over your trading rules, remind yourself: “This is what matters. Everything else is noise.”

• Quick meditation

  Close your eyes and tell yourself: “Stay cool, stick to the plan, and only then do you make money long term.”

Or come up with your own system. You get the vibe. Psychologists have proved that priming works.

If you’re bored staring at your charts…

Good. That’s your signal.

Stay in that zone, and it’s only a matter of time before profit-making becomes consistent.