Avoiding losing trades, as well as not giving back profits you made on winning trades are the two main ways that time spent not trading can help you grow your trading account faster. Trading success is found by picking your entries very carefully and waiting patiently for the most obvious trade setups to ‘come to you’, which typically involves much larger stretches of time spent not trading in between trades than what most traders are used to. The end result of day trading is usually a full-blown trading addiction where time spent not trading literally creates a panic and intense cognitive dissonance as the trader eventually figures out that they are spending too much time in the market but cannot seem to stop trading.