is having to wake up right before 7am est just for one earning announcement (today was JPM) then sit around and do almost nothing until the market opens in 2.5 hours
Not true, you buy SPY, DIA, IWM, FAS, SSO, UWM all the index etfs 2x 3x ultra-bull and just wait the next hour and half until they release the economic figures and play that bounce higher, by 9:30am you have made a weeks worth of profits, however your just better off holding until the 4pm closing because all those etfs you bought in the premarket are guaranteed to go up another 3-5% on the day.