May as well own up to my losses. The last three were lead balloons and liquidated in anger. Shouldn't have loaded up longs when the market was drooping, especially since tech stocks are no longer leading. Times like this, as a swing trader I remind myself that one good winner can make the year. The next trade could be the one!
I imagine it could be very hard if you are relying on it as an income and NEED it to work. Best position is to have enough money where you don't NEED it, but you have the luxury to trade as a hobby / game / challenge / self-improvement or whatever you want to call it.
I think that such a full-time job can be quite difficult psychologically. After all, here you need to be able to earn a stable income for a comfortable life and not allow yourself to have unprofitable days or weeks, which is quite a common occurrence in trading for many traders. Also, for such trading you need a deposit of impressive sizes in order to earn well with risk control. Therefore, for now it is more comfortable for me to earn additionally on Forex without giving up my main and stable job.
Full-time trading hit me hard at first long hours, big losses from overtrading, and constant pressure. Learned the hard way that discipline and mental endurance are just as important as skill.
I think that even with full employment, you need to be able to determine for yourself a certain amount of time for trading in order to avoid overtrading and, accordingly, fatigue and increasing losses, and also set certain rules for yourself when you need to stop trading. For example, if you have a series of stop losses, then I see no point in continuing to trade, but it is better to stop and analyze your losses to make changes to your strategy so that you do not repeat these same type of mistakes in further trading.