I miss the days when markets didn’t trade overnight

long said:
Back when I started trading markets just had A day session. If you wanted to trade in the middle of the night you had to trade a foreign market. It was great. When the bell rang you were free from the screen until the next day and it was much easier to focus on other things for a while. You did risk some market adjustments from events that happened overnight and had to be instantly adjusted for on the next open but the “hours off” between day sessions really helped keep the stress down.

I’ve been watching BTC lately and it’s hard to not watch it overnight since it’s a global market that never sleeps. I haven’t been glued to a screen like this in the last 20 years of trading. I fear the next few months are gonna drain me mentally. Just venting.
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Did you start trading in the 1900s? Forex been around forever and trades 24/5.

Let me guess, graph paper technical analysis?
 
Specterx said:
May as well be saying you miss the time before smartphones or when everyone used to go to church... them days is gone.

Sounds like you need to either shorten your holding period to a reasonable workday, or else lengthen it to where position adjustments aren't required after hours.
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Good points;
big disadvantage a on bitcons or Enron cons, holding cons when you know its worth nothing.
I like a landline phone , but exit on that one also LOL;
enjoy flip phone + Sunday church, some times WED church myself.
Something strange, [super strange sometimes] real strange about minds + markets;
a subconscious mind NEVER forget$ anything.
RISK is part of a real markets;
much more so some cons like Enron markets.........................
Did something in stainless steel today, but with overnite risk + me not knowing the market anywhere near as good as the dealers;
she would not give me a give away deal, so i did about 10% of what i tried to do.
 
Sekiyo said:
If you can't even give a fuck after 20 years of trading ...
I wonder what this craft ever taught you.
We might be slave to the tape but ...
We definitely need to be bossy.

PS I also (swing) trade cryptocurrencies,
& it only takes 15min a day to screen, buy, sell.

Sure I could watch every tick 24/7 but ...
I DON T GIVE A FUCK :D
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BTC is still very unfamiliar to me. I think that’s my biggest problem, that I’m not confident enough to risk a leveraged trade in a market that is highly volatile.
 
hilmy83 said:
Did you start trading in the 1900s? Forex been around forever and trades 24/5.

Let me guess, graph paper technical analysis?
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Never traded forex

and yes….my first charts were paper and delivered through the postal service.
 
maxinger said:
What a complex English;
Markets cannot trade at all!

You must be very angry.
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They barely can in some cases........Liberal mentality. 2010.
 

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SunTrader said:
So $2000 in 5 minutes is nothing to get excited about on a Sunday evening?
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The point is that I was awake and reacted. When it happens after midnight and an alert or trade fill wakes me I don’t quite have my eyes focused enough to see the screen. The point of my post was that I’m missing the days when there were scheduled breaks when I could stop, reflect, and deal with the emotion from the day. I’m gonna have to stop leveraging BTC to get back some of that. It’s so volatile I’m scared to leave it alone. The funny thing is that when I’ve been looking at the daily chart I keep telling myself that it’s gotta correct for a couple of days and I should go neutral. I just liquidated all my BTC futures. I’ll take a couple days to reset…
 
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