Methods to improve your trading

10 giu 2022

Any professional trader should monitor his daily routine.
Traders make a schedule, follow it and remove from life what is unproductive.
Beginners don't spend enough time making plans.
A typical trading day for beginners can consist of constant monitoring of price movement, even during lunch.
Today we will talk about how to make your trading day calm and productive.


1. Sleep
Sleep is still an important part of any person. Do not neglect sleep, because sooner or later the body will require rest, without which it is simply impossible to trade calmly and in a disciplined manner.

Needless to say, your attempts to trade, analyze the market and stick to your trading plan with a lack of sleep simply will not succeed. Perhaps the first and most important way to ensure a proper trading regime is to provide yourself with a good, full night's sleep for at least 7 hours a day.

• Do not drink coffee or other caffeinated beverages during the day. Try drinking herbal tea instead;
• Do not go to bed late thinking that you can sleep off the next day. Research proves that our body functions as productively as possible when we go to bed at sunset and wake up at dawn. This means that you need to go to bed early and wake up early;
• Create a proper sleeping environment. As a rule, this means that your bedroom should be cool (i.e. not too hot), dark and quiet.

2. Healthy breakfast
It has long been known that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
After sleep, the body needs a boost of energy. Find time for a healthy breakfast every morning: take the necessary amount of protein, whole grains and some fruits.

As soon as you wake up, drink a huge glass of water. Most people don't do that. Drinking water saturates your body and also helps to control appetite between meals, and since your body mainly consists of water, it is necessary, first of all, to drink water rather than any other drink.

3. Physical exercises
Regular exercise is the main key to your motivation, attention and focus on everything in your life, including trading. Physical exercise gives us a good feeling physically and mentally, and this is very important for the development of proper trading habits and productivity.

Regular physical training will keep you focused at the highest level, it will also help you sleep soundly at night, which, as noted above, is an extremely important factor for the proper functioning of cognitive activity, which is obviously crucial for success in trading.

4. Hobbies and entertainment
You definitely don't want to turn into a trading hermit. You don't want to turn into a guy who sits in his underwear in front of the charts in the hope that his positions are moving in his favor, and allowing every victory or defeat to affect his happiness.

Trading is a way to potentially improve your life, but it doesn't have to be your life. To succeed in trading, you need to have outside interests so that you are distracted from excessive market analysis and so that you feel happy and confident.

If you still don't have any hobby, then find some. Even if your hobby is just spending time with your family, that's fine, just don't be the "guy" who sits in front of charts all day long, because, I assure you, it's not good for you and your trading.

5. Plan your day
Make sure that you plan the key levels of the chart during or at the beginning of the week. Take some notes about the trend, your trading advantage, potential trading signals that you see.
The easiest way to do the analysis is when the market is closed, so you will avoid the pressure caused by the price movement. Make a plan for the week and every day and follow it without paying attention to the noise.

The famous French microbiologist Louis Pasteur once said: "Chance favors a pre-prepared thought."

6. Practice your trading strategy
This may seem obvious, but if you haven't mastered your trading strategy yet, or if you don't have a trading strategy at all, you won't be able to develop a trading regime. Many traders start in the wrong direction because they don't really have a clear trading method yet, but, instead, they have a vinaigrette of different methods and trading "tips" that they read here and there, mixed everything into one pile, "thinking" that they got, thus, your trading strategy.

You need a trading strategy that you can learn and master and that makes sense and is simple.

7. Discipline and consistency
Discipline, routine and patience are things that people usually consider "boring" or uninteresting, but they should not be perceived in this way at all, especially with regard to trade. You have to understand and accept these things as the ones with which you make money in the market. After you review them in the light that "discipline and everyday life are beneficial and useful," they will take on a different meaning for you.

Remember - trading should not be some random event without a structure or a firm approach and without an underlying regime, and if that is the case, you will end up wasting all your money by giving it to the market. You need to develop your own trading program that would fit your schedule and your personality, and then stick to your trading regime, maintaining cold discipline so that you can see how it works in your favor over a long period of trading and that it brings you income.