High stress comes in the early days of day trading, when you don't know what you are doing and blow up your trading account. Hopefully that only happens once. Most quit day trading after a few months. So the stress ends. Although some could be left with financial PTSD from the experience. Work stress can last years. The job market sucks at the moment, so it's hard to quit if you find yourself in a stressful job. When the job market is weak these investments banks bully and pressure workers even more than usual.
stress is investing and hoping wishing the market will go up, this is most of elite trader lol fools. stress can also be is my 175' dingy on delivery time and will my md notar fit on the landing pad..
I sleep at night, mornings, afternoon nap, evenings, that's great thing about automation. 80% of my account is in long term futures. BUT I have lived through so much and hedging opening positions and when retracements likely to happen. Stress caused by the unknown and not prepared for the what if's.
I remember when I first started trading live....I was such a nervous wreck I saw hair on my desk...my hair was falling off. I would place these random bets on hope and prayer basically. I just figured ride the wins and cut the losses...I'll be rich it's easy Man of Business
You just described me in my early days. But I don't feel so bad whenever I re-read market wizards. Most of those guys blew up a few times before they figured it out It's pretty common for people to think it's going to be easy after they paper trade and look at charts in hindsight. Then they go live and say to themselves "oh my, what have I gotten myself into." I guess I was just crazy enough to stick with it until it started working for me. But what an emotional ride. Ugh. But now, I still get irritated once in awhile. But for the most part, when I'm trading, I feel like a Labrador retriever lying on a warm rug in front of the fireplace after a long wet pheasant hunt. And unlike my earlier days, the more volatile the market, the more calm I am. What a crazy ride.
Then there are the large number of day traders who to their great regret disregard the three rules of day trading. No overnights. No overnights. No overnights.