How Many Hours a Day do You Trade?

NexusFi · 2016-12-28T23:41:05-05:00

I read that post and it's great. However, over the past 6 years trading has been my life. I have completely immersed myself in it. I've watched charts during the day and have woken up 3-4 times throughout the night for 6 years to watch it during globex hours. Trading is my life. I did all of that to get to the point I'm at now. Of course, I'm always thinking and trying to get better and better but what I've been doing for the past 2-3 years is pretty straight forward and I've approached …

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Updated December 29, 2016

How Many Hours a Day do You Trade?

December 28th, 2016, 11:41 PM	#71 (permalink)
shodson OC, California, USA Quantoholic Experience: Advanced Platform: IB/TWS, NinjaTrader, ToS Broker: IB, ToS, Kinetick Trading: stocks, options, futures, VIX Posts: 1,976 since Jun 2009 Thanks Given: 533 Thanks Received: 3,709	Actual trade execution is only 15-30mins a day, but data processing, analysis, and operations adds on another hour or so. Then sometimes I am just watching, going through "what-if" scenarios in my head about what I would do if price does X, Y or Z. I have a variety of strategies I trade, some auto/algo, some manual but systematic, so it just depends on which ones are setting up nicely at the time. I would say usually no more than a total of 2-3 hours a day. Sometimes if I'm dealing with an options position on or near options expiration that can take up more of my time if I'm trying to get my position to expire worthless, I will spend more time watching and babysitting it.