I fly to Houston from Austin around 7:00 pm and then I work all night in Houston and catch the 7:00 am flight to Austin in the morning. At 7:40 am I run like hell to my car in the airport parking lot and then blast off for my 35 minute drive home. From 7:40 am to 8:15 am I am usually ramming cars out of my way into the ditch so I can trade the open at 8:30 (how dare they get in my way!). From 8:15 am to 8:20 am I fire up the PC and check the connection status for data feed and the trading platform. At 8:20 to 8:29 I am trying to remember "who am I and what am I doing here". Then at 8:30 it is kickoff and the game begins!
1. Get up 0545 2. Start the coffee. 3. Boot up. 4. Go to the bathroom. Brush my teeth. 5. Turn on TCM. 6. Trade, 0630.
Hi, I trade from Europe and time difference between local and eastern time is really good for me. US markets opens at 3:30 pm local time and close 10pm local time. So I can sleep as long I want, or go play golf during the morning, then eat nice lunch. Typically I start premarket routine at 1pm - check charts, preparing setups, also watch bloomberg TV, post my journal onto my web page , then dring good cofee and at 3:30pm I start watch market.
There's a guy on here , Ken from DTU, who's in Hawaii and I think their trading day starts at 330am or so. Can you imagine getting up at 1 or 2 in the morning to go to work . . . wow. Of course, that leaves plenty of time for the beautiful women on the beaches when the market closes at 10am