Monday Trading Performance

Explore if Mondays are truly difficult for trading. This analysis investigates historical market data and behaviors to uncover potential patterns on the first t

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: Day Trading

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: educational

Source video

Decoded from: Do Mondays really suck for trading? by Quantified Strategies — watch the original

Strategy overview

Day trading compresses everything into a single session, which is exactly why some traders start looking past the chart and at the calendar instead: does the day of the week itself carry any information? The "Monday effect" is one of the oldest pieces of market folklore — the claim that the first session of the week behaves differently from the rest, whether because of weekend news accumulating with no market open to absorb it, thinner participation, or simply positioning that resets after two closed days. It is a seasonality question rather than a setup question, which puts it in a different category from the breakout and structure concepts most day-trading pages cover.

This entry comes from Quantified Strategies' video "Do Mondays really suck for trading?", and the phrasing of the title is the point: it is posed as a question, not a claim. The channel's whole register is testing widely repeated trading beliefs rather than teaching a setup, so the value here is methodological — how you would even go about deciding whether a day-of-week effect exists in a given market, and what it would take to trust the answer.

Treat this as context rather than a system. A day-of-week observation is a filter layer that sits on top of a strategy you already have — it can tell you when not to take an otherwise valid signal, but it produces no entries or exits of its own. It is also the kind of effect most vulnerable to data-mining: with only five candidates, one of them will always look like the worst day in any sample, and whether that survives out of sample on your instrument, your session and your holding period is a question only your own testing can settle.

Topics

monday trading · market analysis · trading performance · technical analysis · trading patterns · trading strategy · stock market analysis · first trading day · market behavior · financial analysis · historical data analysis

Frequently asked questions

What is the Monday effect in trading?

The Monday effect is the long-standing claim that the first trading session of the week behaves differently from the others — often attributed to weekend news arriving while markets are closed, lighter participation, or positioning resetting after the break. It is a seasonality observation about the calendar, not a trading setup.

Does the day of the week actually affect day trading results?

That is an empirical question, and the answer depends entirely on the market, the period and the type of strategy being measured. The source video frames it as a question to be tested rather than a fact to be accepted, which is the honest position: any day-of-week effect has to be verified on the specific instrument and timeframe you trade.

Can a day-of-week filter be used as a standalone strategy?

No. A day-of-week rule has no entry or exit logic of its own — it can only include or exclude sessions for a system that already generates signals. It belongs in the filter layer of a strategy, alongside things like session times or volatility conditions.

How do I test whether a weekday effect is real or just noise?

Split the results by day of week over a long sample, then check whether the pattern holds in periods you did not use to find it, since with only five weekdays one will always look worst by chance. Strategy Decoder extracts the structure of strategies from video sources so you can rebuild and backtest ideas like this on TradingView with your own data.

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