Do You Actually Enjoy Trading?

hilmy83 said:
I love everything about trading BUT trading itself.

I love backtesting new trading strategies
I love seeing day to day market moves and how I make out each day
I love seeing my automation come to life and work exactly as it's programmed

But sitting there watching charts and analyzing, and waiting for trades....HELL NO
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But cant you do something else while waiting for trades? As in read a book, play a game, clean the appartment, cook, backtest? If I understood you correctly, your automated algo is providing signals, on which you react. A loud signal would call you to your working station, no?
 
45 years later, have gone way 10,000% beyond what I thought I could accomplish. When people said something could not be done, I found a way. I don't know how to quit. Almost all been automated between scalping, day trading, very long term futures and swinging options. Months go by of visiting my office and staff, now I find trading so boring, mundane. Am teaching couple of buddies is as close as I come to trading any more.
 
proftradingjourney said:
You know what, you're probably 100 percent right.

I know this isn't a place for venting, but I have been feeling overwhelmed lately. I feel like I can't relax or have fun without working first. It just feels undeserving to have fun without a good days work. And I don't even know how to have fun. When I try, I usually go to the dumb and addicting vices of our time, like YouTube and social media, which ultimately make me feel like an impulsive rat.

I've always had a difficult time creating that balance. I either go hard one way or the other. I guess I just have to plan things out better.

I know this post may make me seem like I'm emotionally unstable or something, but trust me I'm all good. Everybody has those shitty days or weeks, and I think I'm just under that storm atm.

I'm in my early 20's and just been doing a lot of introspection. I think sometimes it can go overboard though, and create unnecessary stress. At the end of the day, I just want a fulfilling life, and to spend time laughing and having fun with my family and amazing people, like most of us.

All the best.
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Obviously,as schizo mentioned,keep your eye on burn out but also remember that anyone who achieved anything great was obsessed and single minded till they achieved that first big step.

You may be closer to cracking the code than you think.Not the time to worry about your work/life balance.

Good luck.
 
Do i enjoy trading?

I f*cking love it! It allows me to make lots of money, travel around the world and bang b*tches.

Whats not to like?

PS - yes, im deadly serious.
 
tomas262 said:
I enjoy futures spread seasonal trading. So slow it reminds me a big chess board.
I do not enjoy being a daytrading screen-slave. That is where automation really helps. God bless it
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Daytrading was fun until the HFT and the algos killed it. And daytrading is lot less stressful when it goes well. You do all your trades, make the money, close all your trades at the end of the day and the rest of the day is all yours to enjoy and you get a good night of sleep never needing to worry how your trades are doing, getting up in the middle of the night to check whether your sl has been hit it's really annoying. HFT has taken a chunk of daytrading profit. Now you either have to scalp or swing trade in order to make money and it's a pain in the a$$. I hate carrying trades overnight. Anything can happen during the overnight session now that the Asian market is so active with so high of volume.
 
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