Mental and Physical Health in Trading

A good quality screen (or screens) as well as glasses with protective coating can significantly reduce the eye strain from working at a computer all day, but excercise and fresh air are still immensely important.

Quote: Document your sleep times. No waking up to trade in the middle of the night


Are you kidding me? That's the sweetest time to trade. So quiet, so dark, everyone sound asleep and you walk, tiptoe to the computer and you have the whole financial world pulsating in front of you. You reach in, glance, pull the trigger and get filled with so much satisfaction that for you to make your mark on the world at that dark moment in the night, the requirement was to just take a couple of steps.

Then you go right back to sleep. In the morning, you wake up to see how you did. The terminal is empty. You got TP'd. You smile and think that was a good move.


No seriously, where I live is the worst place for Forex trading. Action starts at 11 PM and ends around 7 AM. If you want to really feel the market, losing a few winks is mandatory.

I think best way to have healthy balance between trading and your free time is trade just one session, if your main trading pair is euro for example then trade London session because this is when Euro makes the biggest trending moves. When I was a beginner trader then I was thinking ok the more time I put in the more profit right? Because I can see more opportunities on the market, but it was completely wrong. Normal humans can't focus all day long, for me trading more than one session a day resulted in worse results than trading one session a day.

I try to avoid trading in the late hours of the night. I am not fully awake, my decision-making is affected by that, so I'd rather miss out on a trade than trade in that condition.