I've been falling into the trap of trading outside of my 'plan' and it almost always results in losses.
The other thing I realized is that when backtesting I was effectively ignoring the news and events and just going off the indicator. That means there is really no reason to be at the trading all day long and checking for events as I don't trade them. I can literally not read any financial or economic information whatsoever and simply place trades based on the indicators.
Some of my backtested trades last between eight days and four weeks. It's easy to let a backtested trade last for four weeks (and then ultimately make a loss in some cases) than it is to be checking up on it every hour of every day for four weeks live