NexusFi: Find Your Edge


Home Menu

 





How does your 9-5 affect your trading?


Discussion in Traders Hideout

Updated
      Top Posters
    1. looks_one Quick Summary with 1 posts (0 thanks)
    2. looks_two ethand320 with 1 posts (2 thanks)
    3. looks_3 NoiseTrader716 with 1 posts (1 thanks)
    4. looks_4 malibu with 1 posts (0 thanks)
    1. trending_up 2,752 views
    2. thumb_up 4 thanks given
    3. group 5 followers
    1. forum 4 posts
    2. attach_file 0 attachments




 
Search this Thread

How does your 9-5 affect your trading?

  #1 (permalink)
 
malibu's Avatar
 malibu 
toronto canada
 
Experience: Advanced
Platform: Matlab + NT + TS
Trading: FOREX
Posts: 65 since Jul 2013
Thanks Given: 9
Thanks Received: 17

Hello all-
I thought it would be interesting to discuss our "real" jobs, and how those jobs affect our trading. What's your regular job, and more importantly what skills have you acquired in doing said profession affected your trading? I'm sure some of you are pro traders... What did you do before that? Has your education had an impact? I'm really curious to see some responses, and I hope to learn a lot from what you have to say.

-bubu

Started this thread Reply With Quote

Can you help answer these questions
from other members on NexusFi?
Futures True Range Report
The Elite Circle
ZombieSqueeze
Platforms and Indicators
New Micros: Ultra 10-Year & Ultra T-Bond -- Live Now
Treasury Notes and Bonds
Better Renko Gaps
The Elite Circle
Are there any eval firms that allow you to sink to your …
Traders Hideout
 

  #3 (permalink)
 
Zxeses's Avatar
 Zxeses 
San Francisco CA
 
Experience: Intermediate
Platform: Ninja
Broker: CQG
Trading: ES
Posts: 139 since Jun 2014
Thanks Given: 90
Thanks Received: 172


Currently due to living on the west coast, I can do some study and planning before the opening at 6:30am PST, all the exciting stuff seems to happen during the first hour anyway, but I try to keep watching, paper trading up until the volume drops off.

Sadly I miss the mid day at 10:30am PST, which sometimes hits at 10 and sometimes as late as 11. Volume picks up around 1pm pst for 15 minutes which I can sometimes catch, but not often.

I do find it exciting that at 6:15pm-6:45pm PST is when the 6A is starting to pick up, and then the explosion when the Sindey Exchange starts its reconciliation at 6:45 PST, which sometimes carries into the open at 7pm. Thankfully since CME is running their own contract I dont have to worry about lag, at least so far!

So other then missing the two mid-day moments (morning pickup and close pickup) I'm doing ok!

-Zx

Visit my NexusFi Trade Journal Reply With Quote
Thanked by:
  #4 (permalink)
 ethand320 
Chicago
 
Experience: Beginner
Platform: IB TWS, Tastyworks
Trading: SPY Options, Equity Options, CL, Gold
Posts: 304 since Jan 2014
Thanks Given: 124
Thanks Received: 139


malibu View Post
Hello all-
I thought it would be interesting to discuss our "real" jobs, and how those jobs affect our trading. What's your regular job, and more importantly what skills have you acquired in doing said profession affected your trading? I'm sure some of you are pro traders... What did you do before that? Has your education had an impact? I'm really curious to see some responses, and I hope to learn a lot from what you have to say.

-bubu

I'm a linux engineer in Chicago. Pretty much at my desk all day with enough monitors to trade and work. Depending on the day I usually have time to place my bets late morning for the day and be out by 2pm CST. If I'm at home I watch the price action much more closely (emini's mostly)

Sometimes trading and work conflict pretty inconveniently which is a drag. Part of the reason I never trade any real size when I can't manage the trade with a lot of focus intraday.

Follow me on Twitter Reply With Quote
Thanked by:
  #5 (permalink)
NoiseTrader716
Buffalo, NY
 
Posts: 64 since Jul 2014
Thanks Given: 4
Thanks Received: 38

My experience has been that when someone says they are a "professional" gambler they really just mean they are unemployed and burning through a nest egg of some sort.

I'm a data analyst but nothing to do with markets. 9-5 doesn't change my bets at all. Unless you are playing around with micro-structure noise there just isn't that much to do during the week.

Reply With Quote
Thanked by:





Last Updated on July 31, 2014


© 2024 NexusFi™, s.a., All Rights Reserved.
Av Ricardo J. Alfaro, Century Tower, Panama City, Panama, Ph: +507 833-9432 (Panama and Intl), +1 888-312-3001 (USA and Canada)
All information is for educational use only and is not investment advice. There is a substantial risk of loss in trading commodity futures, stocks, options and foreign exchange products. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
About Us - Contact Us - Site Rules, Acceptable Use, and Terms and Conditions - Privacy Policy - Downloads - Top
no new posts