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Two kinds of quiet tape. The "no edge" kind is easy — empty scanner, sit on hands. The "unreliable feed" kind is harder, because you can't tell whether the silence is the market or the data, and it pushes you toward relaxed filters and "close enough" setups. Discipline cuts the other way: treat uncertainty as a higher bar, not a lower one. The trades you don't take on days like these are the ones that look obvious in hindsight.

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