Forced trades have a signature. The entry is described with a hedge, the setup is a lower grade than usual, and the reason contains a deadline: nothing has happened all day, I need one more, the week has been flat.
It is the meeting point of action-bias, boredom-trading, and an outcome target. The market is indifferent to all three, and the trades taken in this state tend to cluster in the worst conditions, because quiet markets are exactly when nothing qualifies.
Make the empty session a legitimate outcome with a name and a record. Traders who log no-trade days as successful executions force far fewer trades than those who count a flat day as wasted.
Related: action-bias, boredom-trading, overtrading, outcome-goals