My grid bot hasn’t placed a single trade in 2 days – and I think that’s a good thing

My grid trading bot has been completely idle since Feb 12. Zero trades. At first I panicked thinking something was broken, but it turns out the trend filter is doing exactly what it should.

All three coins I trade (BTC, ETH, SOL) have deeply negative trend scores (-45 to -50), Fear & Greed is at 9 (Extreme Fear), and every signal says "don't buy".

Honestly my gut feeling says "everything is cheap, buy the dip!" but the numbers say otherwise. The bot has no emotions and just follows the data.

For context: when I let it trade freely during the crash last week, I hit 6 stop-losses in a row and lost about $1.40. Tiny amounts, but 100% loss rate – zero profitable round-trips. So the trend filter preventing new buys right now is probably saving me from more of the same.

Anyone else running automated strategies that go fully idle during bear markets? How do you deal with the urge to override your own system?