What is sleep?
As for Judy's and Alien's comments, well, I believe most can make money every day you trade, and there are lots of ways to do it. Whether you are regularly profitable depends as much upon your personality as your skills. And yes, per Yamner, not everyone is cut out for it. I am a very disciplined and analytical person, and learned to excise most of the emotional part of it a long time ago. Jenna is as well, although her effervescent persoanlity comes out now and then - but still, I always email her for a time to call, because if she is trading she won't even answer the phone. I have set time to look at the market, and that is based on a couple of decades of looking at charts and fund/brokerage buying patterns. I also have a lot of computer recources at my disposal, and have seen so muuch hype and BS to recognize it usually. I also see things in the market that are new every day, and able to recognize that no indicator or method or fundamental criteria always works. I backetest people's picks until I know what they are following and how rigorously they adhere to that, I backtest and forward test indicators. When everything falls apart the first thing I do is look to see what I am missing, and not what is wrong with the market or sector or stock.
The tick is never wrong. I may not like it, or understand it, or change it. So everytime I look at the market, on those few times during the day I can take a moment, I don't look at it against my expectations, but to see what it is trying to tell me.
Hopefully, it won't tell me I'm broke...
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