honestly, it is getting serious that most people spend over 18 to 19 hours these days on systems and mobile phones watching the market, trading on the move with their mobile. the addiction is getting out of hand. i think i am probably getting into this kind of life.
what could be the possible means of prevention. i need to have my normal life back.
Don't invest/trade with money you can't afford to lose. People often become obsessed with the ticker when they are underwater because they put too much on the line.
Zoom out and watch the long term charts. The daily, weekly, monthly time frames. Moves that look like huge pumps and crashes on the intra-day charts look tiny on the longer term charts. Check the daily/weekly charts a couple times a day. It'll start looking pretty boring after a while!
Finally, if you survive this market, you will grow out of this. I used to watch the charts many hours a day, alarms going off in the middle of the night, etc. After a couple years I burned out on that and got more sensible about my trading habits.