If Trading Was About Sessions, Everyone Would Be Profitable

[crwth]

Hmm, from what has been said so far, there are a lot of sessions that happen, whether in NY, London, etc. It's important to know but it's not the core knowledge that make it to the "marketing" side of this strategy. There is a more impactful factor like risk management, strategy, and mental psychology for the trades.
^{There's no one-size-fits-all approach to trading.}

If this is quantified, we need data for NY and London and compared the win rate per session and draw downs.

[Ndabagi01]

Trading sessions truly plays a pivotal role in a traders plan for the markets. Some traders knows well how some sessions well and how they make them the best of money while trading. They can easily take advantage of the market situation to their own favour and make the best out of the market. Trading market session is very important for some traders and has really helped them to accumulate and gained a lot of money in their trading journey. There are some that are just for the marketing purpose but this one, I don’t think it falls into that category.

[goldkingcoiner]

One thing I’ve noticed after years of watching trading content online is how disconnected it is from actual trading.

Social media is full of clean narratives:
“Trade only New York session”
“Focus on London–NY overlap”
“Wait for the perfect setup every day”

It sounds professional, but it ignores a basic reality:
the market doesn’t hand out high-quality opportunities on a schedule.

Good trades are rare. Some days there are none. Some days there’s one move that matters, and it doesn’t care which session you prefer.

Restricting yourself to specific hours and expecting consistent account growth is more about creating content than trading reality.

Most of these rules exist because they’re easy to explain, easy to sell, and comforting to beginners. Real trading is messier, less repeatable, and far less cinematic.

Curious how others here see this.
Which popular trading “rules” do you think are more marketing than reality?

Popular trading rules? I do not think there are any real "rules".

Real trading is subjective to each trader and their technical and fundamental analysis skills and knowledge. A better trader than me is going to see things that I might miss and because of that, make bad trades. The better you are at TA/FA, the higher your profits in the long term.

The biggest mistake is taking the words of "trading experts" social media influencers and signal groups seriously.

[Faisal2202]

Most of these rules exist because they’re easy to explain, easy to sell, and comforting to beginners. Real trading is messier, less repeatable, and far less cinematic.

Curious how others here see this.
Which popular trading “rules” do you think are more marketing than reality?

I think, they are also not wrong, like experts have said such things for some reasons, and the statement of "Wait for the perfect setup everyday" is almost the same as what you are saying, that we should not restrict ourselves with specific hours and wait for the right opportunity.

Only thing that makes it look like restricted is the word "everyday" because no doubt a trader might not find the best opportunity even after a week but that's so rare and depends on the filter, like what actually the trader is looking for.

Although there is no doubt that, we must not restrict ourselves, but sometimes a limit is better and saves us from huge losses.

[justdimin]

I think, they are also not wrong, like experts have said such things for some reasons, and the statement of "Wait for the perfect setup everyday" is almost the same as what you are saying, that we should not restrict ourselves with specific hours and wait for the right opportunity.

Only thing that makes it look like restricted is the word "everyday" because no doubt a trader might not find the best opportunity even after a week but that's so rare and depends on the filter, like what actually the trader is looking for.

Although there is no doubt that, we must not restrict ourselves, but sometimes a limit is better and saves us from huge losses.

Yeah, when you start to trade everyday and you study how trading works, you realize that there is no "this is how you make money", because there is no single way. You can do one thing and make money today and a week later the same way would make you lose money, it's that simple and there is no way that you can get better at this.

The sad thing is that if you really want to make some money, the only way you can do this would be to learn to be dynamic and change based on how the market looks and focussing on session must be one of them. Still, adapting your strategies with respect to different session alone will not guarantee you profits, but could impact significantly like in bullion trading, staying away from market in the opening session of US market would help to avoid wild fluctuations.