Measuring pulse or heart rate while trading ?

schizo said:
The point is that you shouldn't push yourself. No amount of money can replace your health. If you feel stressed out, either take time off or reassess your trading strategy.
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The cool thing is I am a totally systematic trader, so I do not suffer much at all from that kind of stress. But I was interested in that topic overall, because it can have some interesting aspects when finetuning the strategy.
 
TrAndy2022 said:
Are there any post covid symptoms I need to be aware of ? Because I had no covid so far and I am vaccined 4 times now too. I heard you can get easily tired when doing tasks (afterwards a covid infection) and significant percentage of persons who had covid suffer on post-symptoms for a longer time period (but it basically seems kind of never ending of such symptoms or ?). Anyone has experience or heard of in his/her near environment ? Or is it over now with the new latest variant because it is no more that severe and with vaccined people there is no (none to very little) risk on suffering post-covid-symptoms ?
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I'm expecting the WHO, before year end to downgrade the Pandemic to an Endemic even though most countries have already removed or plan soon to remove the last remaining Covid restrictions.

Also, everybody has a different reaction to the latest variant but it's dependent upon your underlying medical conditions and the location you're residing (high infection community versus low infection community) plus your behavior habits in this Pandemic (eating good nutrition versus bad nutrition).

Simply, some people that get Covid now only experience a few days of sore throat, coughing, and a little tiredness. Others have lingering brain fog and some heart/respiratory issues. Yet, about 3.4% of people in the world are dying but that percentage number is more weighted towards the first few months of the year. I've met a few people in my recent travels and they said it was only a mild illness...no different than the flu.

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MarkBrown said:
i seriously would like some pointers on nutrition as i'm a sugar addict. if i could get this fixed i know i need to. been trying zinc to control the urges.

i settled on female vocal trance music, seems to be my favorite or total silence is good also.
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If you are a sugar addict, then you really must journalling your eating behavior in relation to your trading success every time you eat some sugar. Because then you have an energy peak for a short period of time (that is good) but a much longer downside time period (not good because you get tired too and concentration is worse and your attention span is shorter). The bad thing with sugar is that it is this assymetric phases of high and low energy with much the longer low energy phase. And when you trade then you feel you need to put in more sugar in the low energy phase to get it up quickly again. That is a kind of dilemma here. I would like to hear or see your records then about how trading goes with those sugar take-in all the time.
 
TrAndy2022 said:
Thanks, but I do not want to replace my daily dose of coffee, because I read recent scientific study in a high impact journal that 2 or 3 cups coffee every day is good for the heart and longevity. So it is good to drink coffee every day. But do ask me about all the details in the study now.
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A link to the study would support the convo.
 
Sprout said:
A link to the study would support the convo.
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Sorry, do not have it on my fingertips, because it is not that trading relevant for me. So far I had not discovered a relationship between coffee and trading success. So you need to do your own google search, sorry for that.
 
Not familiar with Omroj,but my Garmin watch/heart rate monitor is useless...

If you want accuracy,Polar arm straps are supposedly way more accurate..

cesfx said:
Have you tried fruit for when the sugar craving hits?
The natural sugars of the fruit slowly slowly will help cut down on processed sugars. Also slowly reducing any sugar in tea or coffees and appreciate the bitterness.
Chocolate is a different story, try to go dark if you are into it.
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wrbtrader said:
If you get a blood pressure / heart monitor for whatever reason (e.g. you have a underlying medical condition and its recommended by your Doctor)...

Get a Omron Watch or something similar that monitors your blood pressure/pulse while you're doing your daily activities. Thus, you want something that stores memory and it takes your health statistics automatically during the day without you needing to manually do it.
I know an institutional trader in Chicago that wears one. He had a heart attack early in the Pandemic after recovering from a Covid-19 infection. Apparently, he had developed heart problems and other issues with his health even though he had recovered from a Covid infection.

Here's something else, Omron was recommended to him by the owner of his favorite restaurant that wears one too and that owner is also a marathon runner. The owner had anxiety attacks in 2021 about his restaurant business during this Pandemic.

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TrAndy2022 said:
The cool thing is I am a totally systematic trader, so I do not suffer much at all from that kind of stress. But I was interested in that topic overall, because it can have some interesting aspects when finetuning the strategy.
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Stock volatility as a risk factor for coronary heart disease death
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3076666/

When Stocks Go Down, Heart Attacks Go Up
https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20100317/when-stocks-go-down-heart-attacks-go-up
 
TrAndy2022 said:
For the discretionary traders especially does it help you (or did you ever try it) to measure your pulse (heart beat) when you make trading decisions ? I could imagine that high pulse is a sign of stress and not good when holding a position or entering a new one. But it might be different to every person, so I would like to know some experiences.
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No that will just be an annoying distraction and in trading, you have to be 100% focused and the less distraction, the better.
 
Elevated heart rate is a stress response. Trading should not cause elevated heart rate. If it does, probably means you're nervous because you don't have an edge.
 
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