I'm surprised this doesn't help you more than it does. Do you drink alcohol? I learned the hard way that even just moderate amounts can really mess with my nervous system and cause all kinds of anxiety.
Stress and Trading
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I'm surprised this doesn't help you more than it does. Do you drink alcohol? I learned the hard way that even just moderate amounts can really mess with my nervous system and cause all kinds of anxiety.
There is is no such animal. All systems require tweaking.
Lol cant my man. Im scared of gaps. Been there.
Yep. All in the jaw. I noticed so much stress balled up in my jaws I couldnt do much. A good trader nap and its fixed until the next day tho.
Nop.
You can automate the entry and exits. Takes the decision making out of the equation in the heat of the moment.
Fear and greed run the market.
You sound like my doppleganger.
I had the exact same issues yesterday. I decided to alternate hold cold showers and that helped relief the stress a bit.
The neck pain is due to forward head posture when you stare at the computer too much.
Trading, or day trading, is definitely not for everyone.
This activity is probably one of the top listed most stressful professions out there, I must imagine.
Look at the guys in those trading pits...most look very old, prematurely aging, bald or balding or thinning, they look high on coffee or vodka or coke and a junk fast food diet.
What are your trading returns, if I may ask? If they are relatively low, just buy and hold/invest in good, quality, stocks or the main index S&P and do something else with your life and time.
No offense, but are you fat or chubby?
Being fat or chubby or unhealthy or out of shape, in life, can have rather very profound chain reaction effects to other aspects of your life.
Scalping...that's not a sustainable trading model for the retail trader. I realized early on, that style of trading was not something I would find appealing.
Scrapping for scraps. Scalping is essentially just sitting at a card table or playing roulette. It's kind of boring and a waste of time.
Whether you look at a Day's Chart, week's chart, month's chart, year's chart...your ideal aim...is to capture that One, obvious, macro, major chart line move.
Fill up your fishing boat with the biggest catch in the water -- not a bunch of smaller, random, tiny, fish.
Also, you don't need many monitors, large monitors, curved monitors, monitor stands left and right ....just have One.
My computer setup is just a flat 19" monitor. That's all I stare at.
I personally find less is truly more in life, and in trading. Keep it Simple.
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Just my view, but I always found scalping the most stressful, not to mention, your edge may be marginal. Your emotional state is fluctuating with every tick.