Dear Steve: try phoning younger girls?
Please don't tell my friend Leon about your exs' exploits. I'd never get any work out of him as he frantically paws thru tattered old black books of his own :>)
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Intraday trading can be exhausting. Many times in the past I've gone right to the couch at 4:00pm EST and crashed for an hour or more.
The solution for me has been only trading 9:30 ~ 11:30am and then 1:00pm ~ 4:00pm EST. That 1.5 hour break midday makes all the difference for me, and it was a net-loss period over time besides. Breaking up the tedium for all-day marathon was critical to my mental staying power.
Another key component is walking away from the screens when a trade is in the early stages of development. If there is little chance of a reversal setup pending, once a trade is on I get up out of the chair and walk away. Distancing myself from the tick by tick torture removes 90% of the stress involved.
A lot of my trades that go deep into profits had come within a tick or three of being stopped out early on. Most also fluttered around with small unrealized gains before continuing on. If I sit there for the entire drama, it would be very draining. Trusting the trades to work as they should = giving them long leash to do exactly that.
Once I slowed down my intraday pace, broke up the day into most profitable zones AND broke the tension by leaving screens, feelings of exhaustion left completely.
Hope this helps
Austin
Please don't tell my friend Leon about your exs' exploits. I'd never get any work out of him as he frantically paws thru tattered old black books of his own :>)
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Intraday trading can be exhausting. Many times in the past I've gone right to the couch at 4:00pm EST and crashed for an hour or more.
The solution for me has been only trading 9:30 ~ 11:30am and then 1:00pm ~ 4:00pm EST. That 1.5 hour break midday makes all the difference for me, and it was a net-loss period over time besides. Breaking up the tedium for all-day marathon was critical to my mental staying power.
Another key component is walking away from the screens when a trade is in the early stages of development. If there is little chance of a reversal setup pending, once a trade is on I get up out of the chair and walk away. Distancing myself from the tick by tick torture removes 90% of the stress involved.
A lot of my trades that go deep into profits had come within a tick or three of being stopped out early on. Most also fluttered around with small unrealized gains before continuing on. If I sit there for the entire drama, it would be very draining. Trusting the trades to work as they should = giving them long leash to do exactly that.
Once I slowed down my intraday pace, broke up the day into most profitable zones AND broke the tension by leaving screens, feelings of exhaustion left completely.
Hope this helps
Austin
