Traders having ADD?
- Thread starter BudFoxx
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So it's trading that is wiping out my memory? I never would of
thought of that...
I too have had my vocabulary reduced to a few simple words:
Go long! Go short! Reverse! Move to breakeven! Move to BE+!
Cancel! Increase target! Scale in! Scale out! Maybe a few more,
but that's just about all that is left...
Quote from version77:
So it's trading that is wiping out my memory? I never would of
thought of that...
I too have had my vocabulary reduced to a few simple words:
Go long! Go short! Reverse! Move to breakeven! Move to BE+!
Cancel! Increase target! Scale in! Scale out! Maybe a few more,
but that's just about all that is left...
well you dont really do much writing when you are trading and the reading you do is probably speed reading of headlines.
trading is a monkey's job. we look at numbers and charts all day and push buttons. your brain is certainly not being stimulated like it was in college or high school. as the mantra goes, use it or lose it.
What issue was this in.
I believe I suffer from this. When all you do for 6 1/2 hours is watch quotes I believe the mind becomes accustomed to this circular activity and your mind gets out of practice and forgets how to do other tasks.
If I'm talking to someone after trading I easily lose focus and find myself having tuned the person out and find myself daydreaming. As my mind falls back into its circular routine of thinking about positions/markets/quotes ect.
I believe I suffer from this. When all you do for 6 1/2 hours is watch quotes I believe the mind becomes accustomed to this circular activity and your mind gets out of practice and forgets how to do other tasks.
If I'm talking to someone after trading I easily lose focus and find myself having tuned the person out and find myself daydreaming. As my mind falls back into its circular routine of thinking about positions/markets/quotes ect.
You folks are kidding right.
I don't know what kind of "trading" you are doing, but my trading business involves research, extensive use of statistics and probabilities, strategic and tactical planing of all kinds, and at the end of the week accounting work during the review of my brokers P&L submittal. I don't know of any monkey's (or ET members for that matter) who are able to it well.
On the subject of ADD, if you suspect you have a medical problem you ought to visit a medical profesional, period. Discussing it with the great medical minds of our times here at ET, is a waste of your valuable time. Also it jeopardizes your health. What you believe to be ADD could be a serious medical problem that a qualified physician might find in time to save your life. That is if you go get it checked out.
Good luck
Steve
I don't know what kind of "trading" you are doing, but my trading business involves research, extensive use of statistics and probabilities, strategic and tactical planing of all kinds, and at the end of the week accounting work during the review of my brokers P&L submittal. I don't know of any monkey's (or ET members for that matter) who are able to it well.
On the subject of ADD, if you suspect you have a medical problem you ought to visit a medical profesional, period. Discussing it with the great medical minds of our times here at ET, is a waste of your valuable time. Also it jeopardizes your health. What you believe to be ADD could be a serious medical problem that a qualified physician might find in time to save your life. That is if you go get it checked out.
Good luck
Steve
if you are doing research and extensively using statistics, you probably are not scalping and jumping in and out of trades like a madman. i have conferred with other guys on my desk who have said the same thing about their short term memory turning to poo.
i actually did see a doctor and took an MRI but i came up clean. i tried taking amphetamines (prescribed) and for the first two days, my time and sales moved in "bullet time" like in the matrix. everything around me moved in slow motion and my eyeballs were popping out of my head. needless to say, i did quite well trading those two days but unfortunately the effects of the drugs begun to lessen over the next few days. i stopped taking the drugs eventually since they didnt seem to do much after the first few days.
If I'm talking to someone after trading, I easily lose focus and find myself having tuned the person out
and find myself daydreaming as my mind falls back into its circular routine of thinking about positions,
markets, quotes, etc.,...