What do you do in your spare time?

[bergy]

Hi all,

I have just recently joined this forum and this is my first post. I am a gold trader from Australia and about to make the jump into cold water and trade full time.

The reason why I am writing this post is that I trade on the daily time frame and I could be classified as a position and/or swing trader holding trades for days to weeks. With this strategy I will have a lot of time on my hands.

My question is to those who trade full time, is what do you guys do to fill in the time between trades? I am especially looking for responses from traders with similar trading strategies, however responses from day traders are more than welcome as well.

Kind regards

 

[shadowninja]

Depends on your strategy, surely. If you wait for set ups at the end of 4 hour candle formations then you have 4 hour gaps to go shopping, sleep, eat, watch blockbusters, play WoW, masturbate...

 

[Vaco]

if your trading off the daily charts, then you have the whole day to do whatever you like, get a hobby do some volunteer work learn carpentry go sailing whatever rocks your boat mate!!

 

[Jaydee]

I'm more of a longer term trader with equities and currencies. However, I like to day trade the indices like the Eurostoxx and FTSE - sometimes the S&P. I found a lot of my longer term strategies also fit the shorter time frames - so I'm not scalping; I'm taking more long-term intra-day positions.

 

[theSheik]

golf, tennis, philandering, money laundering / gun running - up to you

we have all the time in the world

 

[mechtraderpro]

Depends on your strategy, surely. If you wait for set ups at the end of 4 hour candle formations then you have 4 hour gaps to go shopping, sleep, eat, watch blockbusters, play WoW, masturbate...

or get someone to play with you ! (blockbusters i mean)

 

[shadowninja]

haha... er... I meant blockbuster films not the student tv show. Then again, it IS on during the daytime so I guess you're right.

 

[bhavin]

I trade 20 hours per week
then approx 10 hours week i do community work
then i also study Islam approx 10 hours a week, and create awareness of the threat of islam to peace

 

[finvik]

In my spare time i do yoga & meditation.

 

[arabianights]

then i also study Islam approx 10 hours a week, and create awareness of the threat of islam to peace

wtf is wrong with you

 

[xfiler]

I lived in US , so i get up early and check stock to trade for 1-2 hour and go work part time in Hospital.

 

[Pat494]

I lived in US , so i get up early and check stock to trade for 1-2 hour and go work part time in Hospital.

Things must be pretty bad in the USA if some people need 2 jobs just to keep afloat. Not much time for anything else ?

 

[Anne Onymous]

Hi,
I personally read a lot, and seem to do so by themes. So there was the American history phase, the TA phase, the great biographies phase, and lately Ive been reading cooking books cause I can actually put that to the test Next I think I will focus on languages and start buying study guides and cds for beginners.
But Im a shorter term trader so I cant really expect to have >90mins of free time at once during the day and spend time outdoors, unless Ive hit my daily limit. In the latter case I usually try to quickly figure out what happened and then start drinking so I wont lie and say I do anything philanthropic.
Hope the reading suggestion helps though. At least if you ever blow out your account then you can try to make it back at Who Wants to be a Millionaire

 

[xfiler]

Things must be pretty bad in the USA if some people need 2 jobs just to keep afloat. Not much time for anything else ?

We lost a lot of jobs here, other who have full time are being cut in hours. California is the second highest unemployment in the U.S.A, 10.5% we are higher than the national average. i know we can survive this storm, we did it before.

 

[Mr.J-Arthur]

Road biking, mountain biking off road trails, lifting weights, parties, poker, drinking coffee, video games.

 

[ninjadave]

Mountain biking, skiing, kayaking, music, lusting over Kat Von D.......anything you like fella! Its up to you!

 

[EmergentFungus]

Jog, road bike, wank, sauna, sit beer garden on a sunny day getting a bit pissed when all the wage slaves are in their offices, museums, shops, aimlessly walk around, cooking then have another wank.

 

[dvonn19]

Learn internet marketing but still suck at it.

 

[tornhill]

I´m producing music on the computer when I have time, it´s pure fun and relaxing.

 

[avibe]

I meditate and do visualisation techniques. Making that inner investment before i make the outer investment