Watch this interview: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warr...-todd-combs-ted-weschler-speak-142643892.html They made perhaps a few trades a year, so how they spent their time everyday? Read 8-9 hours a day, went home read some more before going to bed. Five days a week, every week. Out of all the non stop reading, they found a few trades a year. If you are not interested in trading, it is boring.
Automate, Automate, Automate, then you have more time to clean toe nails, research how to clean toenails , soak them. Oh and more back testing, develop other ways to rob others legally and keep on smiling.
%% Easy for you to say; you somehow are alert/monitor multiple markets. I dont have much time for news, it maybe boring , much of it is fake news . Do like to read old trading books, + book reviews. Some noted Master Swing Trader[new blue cover edition LOL] was all noise + no signal. LOL. I monitor old charts in that book also. BUT for excitement, like, target shooting, something like the[ UK ]United Kingdom fund manager said= dont shoot all your bullets ; then the elephant comes by.....,....
There is a good boring and a bad boring, you got to figure out what applies. A good boring occurs when system is working well and it gets routine. But your head it still in the game. Bad boring is when your trading system that does not fit your personality. If your going stir crazy, and cannot keep your head in the game ? Your probably trading something someone else trained you to do that does not fit your personality. If that's the case, you got to be honest on the frequency of trades you must make in a week to stay actively engaged. Although I was "schooled" by some successful patient types, it did not work for me, because of ME. I found I am only good for only about an hour of side research a day, and kept watching the screen. Soon to stay active I was gambling on side trades and other nonsense that lead to unreasonable losses. Years latter, when I finally pulled back and made my own system based on my own observations ( that used shorter time frames over more markets, thus allowing smaller but more frequent trading ) ,it kept me focused and interested. It also provided the patience to step aside the times the market is telling you do not trade . It takes a lot of work, research and honesty. Trade your new approaches small, a lot of trial and error. If the work and trail and error is boring, then maybe trading is not for you ? Several years ago I traded with a couple others, one guy liked the hanging out and trading but would never do the research, system development, etc. It wasn't for him. He now makes a great living in the Construction management industry and is totally passionate about it.
Hahaha. Boring as heck, but usually I step away and let alerts call me back to the desk. Not good to constantly keep looking at the screen all day draining more than boring for me.
Yes, it is boring. In the world of trading you can either make money and be bored, or lose money and be excited. You can't do both at the same time.