Question: Realistic to trade forex at specific times of the day?

i always hear about trading plan and you should have specific time to trade Forex for example you set rule to trade Forex from 8am to 12am etc....
but is that something really realistic?
what if you entered 2 loss trades at that time and later after you left market a lot winning chances come and you missed it?
maybe you will say ok i will set target like 20 pips in day i will get it then turn off my laptop and enjoy life but what if after you turned off your laptop you missed 4 or 5 trades 4*20=80 pips, and in next days you kept losing and not able to achieve target and you wished if you didn't miss that 5 trades in last day.
it's bad idea to have strategy that making you stress and sit front chart all the day even if that strategy profitable .... but are you thinking that advice really realistic and can apply in real world?

I programmed many EA's and I always noticed thet the mos looser trades are between end of NY close and Asian open and between Asian close and Europe open.
So to trade between 8am and 12am, is a good staring point. If you trade manually you can not watch the market in 24, you will miss some trades. I think the best way is, if you use strenght indicator to see wich pairs are best moving, and trade them, in your trading time, and forget about misse dtrades.

it's good to see people who making researches on the market like me , yes but also don't forget your losses time maybe winning time for someone else,
what making me talk about time , is i don't feeling comfortable during the trade, i hate to sit front chart all the time , i spent years in forex world and i still love to trade it even if no win yet ,
i was losing trader until jun 2017 , i opened my last account i was thinking in quite Forex and named it (The End) on myfxbook i told myself if i lost that account i will never trade again, i was trading small time frames and i doubled account 3 or 4 time from june 2017 to feb 2018 i made thousand pips in first time of my life , but again i left it, it's ruined my life , you have to sit all time on screen waiting that golden trade that if you missed you can wait weeks until come again , the problem is find way that making you comfortable while trading , i know that can't be done through small time frames currently i do my research and study to move on large time frames would be nice if you can just open chart one or 2 times in day and scan it to see opportunities then close it and focus on your other things in life, real problem it's impossible to use strategy that making you stuck front of screen all the time, it's ruin your life , making you lose your friends and your family , then you feeling when you go to street you are from mars.

Sounds like crazy talk to me.. You must be willing to sit at your screen 17 hours a day..

to me that's most hard part in trading plan , you can find strategy and set plan to entry take profit stop loss you can choose pairs that you planing to invest in but if you day trader and trade small time frames the question is when you should start? and when you should stop? which option you would choose :

1- get your winning trade or at least try to out with small losses and close laptop and open it next day. (problem: what if you couldn't achieved that? what if winning trade never come ? or what if you have to wait hours to get signal?)

2-don't determine time just look at chart if you free.(problem: Demon in your head will keep telling you to open chart ? you away? Demon tell you look at phone)

3-just determine time that you do the business for example 2 to 3 hours in morning.(problem: may not get any trade or losing trade )

maybe more logic option to me is number 3 , since that's possibility market and random we can't be sure 100% so sometimes we will get bad days and sometimes good days .

if someone made research or experiment about that he can share it

It is realistic to set your trading time on specific forex market hour. If you lose on Asia time you can try to pay it on New York time.

Tis is beacause I started to trade on daily timeframe and started to learn programing. Your life is not family friendly, if you trade on daily, you can analyse when you wannt, you can enter later too if the setup is formed(not always) and you program if you have enough time.

I trade according to a weekly schedule based on the economic calendar. Outside of these times I am not actively trading but rather just have a news feed running on the side

Not trying to teach or tell or give advice to anybody, can't tell my method too coz of several reason, can't show my balance too, so no proof I can give. But if u believe me as a trader that has earn a good profit and now it's way bigger than my initial capital about a year ago, here's what I'm gonna say:
1. There are no good time or bad time trading session, I have seen for years sometimes it's just a sudden crazy movement, i'm trying to find news or anything to make it sense, but most times, the movement has nothing to do with news, sometimes no news or events at all, well at least not that public can access, sometimes it has to do with news or events.
2. Choosing trading session or time is a choice of how to organize or balance your life, bout the miss opp u said? many years before you even start trading, you've already missed that opp, so why bother now? and that lead to no. 3
3. One loss is worse than miss several opps, it discourage ppl and make ppl can't think clearly and they gonna start doing something stupid.
4. Last but not least, as a matter of fact, for me this is the most important, note this: living your life normally, waiting till it's time to open your laptops or screen at particular time u have set, close it again or no entry accordance to your trading signal or method or technique, wait till the next windows that you have determine, it's all trading activity, so for me, trading doesn't start when I open my screen and ended when I close it, it happen 24 hours. I open it every weekday, but not every day I have an entry, sometimes in one week only 2-3 entries, sometimes in a one good day, 2 entries in a row, and about how you multiple you can gain faster profit, it's another subject, the money management subject.
Put it this way, if you want to build a muscle, 12 hours straight on the gym with heavy lifting and work hard won't help much right, u need to "Wait", resting, eating, recovery, the process doesn't start when u enter the gym and ended when u leave it, it happen 24 hours non-stop.
I personally open the screen about only 5-7 times in my preferable time that I have set, in total maybe just around 30 mins/day.
About the opps u said u missed? it's just a matter of perspective, for me it's not the opps i missed, it's just not inside of my time of trading, that's all. Remember, better no trade than trade and loss.

In my experience a lot of those sudden movements are, indeed, caused by news, and often previously unscheduled news at that. Sometimes they do seem totally random though.

I'd say for your own sanity it's good to have rules about only trading at certain times of the day!

e.g. only trade the London/Europe & NY opens, don't trade Asia, don't hold overnight, don't check charts overnight, don't hold over the weekend.

Anything that limits excessive screen-time and discourages over-trading is a good thing imho. The above are only examples btw...

It's all about remaining alert while waiting for the best trades and accepting that you aren't going to catch every move! And there's no way one can stay alert 24 hours a day.

Of course setting price alerts is a great way to step away from the charts but still be in the loop to what's happening.

what i really do now is immigrate from small time frames to large one so i can just scan charts before i go to sleep to check if there is chance or no then place my orders and let trades work for days weeks or months. still put my strategies under test on large time frames to see results before i move to there.

Yes of course that's another option, move away from day trading and onto longer-term strategies, check charts once a day, set orders and tweak positions once a day.

Changing your strategy to trade in the long term is certainly a viable option, but you also need to teach yourself patience if you're going to do that.