Perhaps all you need is a short coffee break, or maybe you should step away for a day or even a week. Your portfolio will still be there when you return. Remember, you're not a day trader. You don't have to react to every minor market swing. Not a single day in the market should make you feel like you're racing against time.
One of the advantages of the Dual Investment Strategy, which I've discussed before, is that it doesn't demand constant attention. You can set up your portfolio, step back, and live your life, checking on your investments when it's convenient for you. Let your life schedule when you review your portfolio, rather than letting the market dictate your life. There's nothing in this strategy that necessitates an immediate reaction to market movements. Just because the market is moving rapidly doesn't mean you have to follow the crowd blindly. The same holds true for the Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) method.
There is a big difference between a day trader and a normal investor. Day trading usually means that you close out all your positions at the end of the day, you don't want to take risk in your positions overnight. Basically, you are only trading when you are at your computer, and when you step away from it there shouldn't be much movement in your portfolio. This also means that you know exactly every day how much money you made or lost. This can be a lot of pressure and time consuming which made me stop day trading right after university. Handling the constant flow of information and changing prices can be hard to deal with and I ended up becoming high blood pressure during the whole day of trading. A normal investor is much long term orientated and is fine to keep his positions medium to long term. Everybody should decide for himself what kind of investing and trading he wants to do. It comes down to how much money and time we have at our hand to build and look after our portfolio. For anybody who has already a stressful fulltime job I would recommend a long term investment approach and for that the DCA method is great. There is no need to spend a lot of time on research and we can build a large portfolio over time.
You would eventually be able to notice it out on your own because when stress do kicks in and on the time that you are committing lots of mistakes then you would really be normally be finding out
some moment or time to have some break.
You should really know on when to stop and have a break when everything do really looks mess up, and continue on the time that everything do really looks calm and good to go.
It is really a matter of self control and making out some decisions which would really be that something relevant and useful for your part and not really just forcing out things
to work even if it isnt really that something that would really be easy to be done and goes along on what you do have in mind.