If you treated trading like a seasonal resort business you'd do better. Instead of trying to stay open year round you wait to open (trade) when the tourists show up (liquidity) and everyone is willing to pay more because the weather is great and they are having fun (bull market)

Trading is not like running a business or having a job where you have to keep showing up and keep grinding all year round. Our brains are not designed to sit on our hands and it sounds counter intuitive to do nothing but that's really the only way to survive slow periods.