Topic: Occupational hazards of trading crypto (Read 682 times)

Healthy living is the key to get rid of high blood pressure. Also, the proper mindset and caring for our mental health will be a big help for to us maintain a successful trading career. There will be risks in any type of job but as long as we know how to balance and handle all the aspects of our lives most especially our health, we could reach the success that we want because we could focus on our target goal. Trading will be a successful journey if we'll handle our emotions well.

It is safe to assume that high blood pressure develops here, but it depends on what you eat and how often you exercise.  The long term development that can lead to psychological damage is that they cannot be successful entrepreneurs. They cannot expect that positive thing. Proper risk management has the risk of risk management.

This is a very common problem especially in those traders that are new but which are talented, basically they do not want to miss a single piece of the action that the markets can give them and they even set their smartphones to send them notifications when they are sleeping so they can try to take advantage of them.

But this is an unhealthy lifestyle that cannot be maintained for long, and if someone actually tried to do it then they will see their health deteriorate significantly in just a mater of months, so while earning money while trading is good, it is not worth it if you have to exchange your health for it.

This is why some people keep on inventing new ways to be in front of the PC, I still mock those who have like standing desks and all, because I would rather sit down even if it means bad health for 8 hours a day instead of standing still.

I am pretty sure that must be something difficult for your health as well, 8 hours of standing instead of sitting can't be that great neither but at the very least shows that people are working on finding a solution. The best is to take breaks, like 10 minutes per hour, and then having like a 30 minute walk before or after work (or during lunch time if you prefer). That is still the best way to do it.

The situation may not be the same for everyone. What you experience may not be the same thing that any other person will be experiencing . what matters a lot is that you try to put all these into consideration and monitor your health to know when things are not really fine with you.

If you feel maybe keeping up late night to trade or looking at your monitor screen for a long time is affecting your health, then it is time that you tried to put things under control by reducing the amount of time spent trading or looking on your monitor screen. We should always try to keep notice of things that are going wrong with our health or the bad habits that we have with work.

If you do have this kind of mindset or aim on why you do pursuing to make out some trades then you would most likely be failing or would really lose some because risk management is one of the most important factor

which is needed for you to survive this market.If you do have that kind of behavior where you do really love to see and hurry up yourself on gaining big profits then you would surely fail because you would definitely
be making some orders which is talking about 100% of your deposit.

Speaking with health then everything should be balanced because it wont really worth if your health is already been affected because of too much engagement.

And it's true. Even dedicated traders only set a set amount of time trading, heck maybe even less than your average trader. It's mostly because they've learned how the markets move so knowing the when is rather easy for them (or rather easy for them to assume that is). Using up all the time in the world doesn't guarantee profit (but it does help at some point).

As others have said. The heavier the risk, the greater the opportunity. Really simple analogy but really scary once you go to levels above your actually capable of on average.

I agree from what he says, though I totally get what you're saying.

Even though a person's passion is to trade, he should never neglect his health. Time management is very important, you don't have to trade for a whole day, because sitting too much while in front of your computer is not good for you health. You might earn a lot of money by spending a lot of time in trading but it's useless if you're gonna get sick.

Depends on the person. If he found his passion in trading then for him his world will only revolve around trading. It's his own world and he won't experience a tiredness or what because he enjoys what he is doing.

Not necessarily trading but many people find working at home or working online is a lot better than working away on a real offices because it gives them a freedom. They are their own boss and they can work whatever they like, no pressure whatsoever. We can get a health problem but it doesn't automatically mean that trading cause it, maybe we already have an existing health problem before and it only got worsen so don't blame trading instantly.

I believe there are more risks to being a full-time trader, and this is dependent on the amount of money you have committed in each trade. For example, I can open a $100 spot trade position and if I get trapped and lose 50%, I may be brave enough to hold that position as I can manage the loss, but even with that ability, I can lose my appetite, I wouldn't want to talk to anyone as a small thing can upset me easily, and I may become mute throughout the day; these are some of the common after-effects and emotional damage I face in short term.
What happens if I open a $100000 position and lose more than 50% of it? It will not only cause me to have high blood pressure for a long time, but it will also cause me to fall repeatedly whenever I remember my errors.

Since trading is not limited to any hour, and can happen 7/24, people do not consider it as a job that you have to do 9-5. I mean that part makes sense, you do not have to actually be sitting down and working 9-5 everyday during weekdays and take a break on weekends and so forth, you do not "have to" do that. You could work different hours and make it relax to whatever you want or need.

However, this also doesn't mean that you should work 20 hours a day just because you can, unfortunately some people realize that they can, and it could make them more profit (possibly) and that is why they are working in unhealthy hours and situations just to make more money.

Having a good health means you will live longer so I don’t really get what you mean by saying that exercising doesn’t really extend one's life. If you are eating good and you are exercising properly and also making sure that you don’t over work to the extent of stressing out yourself every day, then you’re probably going to live a healthy and longer life than people who do not exercise or eat good food, neither do they have any consideration of their health in case of stresses from work and things like that.

So, it is very important that we learn to exercise and also not overwork to the extent of stressing ourselves, and make sure that we eat good food.

actually trading is like what we live, if we place trading as a job, then we also have to work according to the working hours that we set ourselves. or else we have to be able to manage our time, our stress level, that's why many people say to trade according to their own comfort, where everyone will feel different comfort. Therefore, if we have health problems due to trading, then our strategy is wrong, and we don't feel comfortable

When they are young they don't really face many issues or they get used to it but when years passesby we will face the serious circumstances. Even a day trader can allocate atleast an hour for cardio which will keep them feel healthy and more confidence so their mental health also get boosted up than someone who is doing nothing.

It's basically not good to continuously trade crypto without taking a break,
so we have to be balanced both in trading and living life because when we continue to work without paying attention to physical health and mental health it will become a big problem,
I think everyone should be able to manage time well

Lack of physical activity will lead to lot of health related problems for all age category people so when someone is doing cryptocurrency trading 24/7 they will go into such category for sure. Just treat it as job and never let it to consume yourself only use it for making money and use the money to lead the life you actually wanted so keep the work and life in the balanced state.

The 24/7 strategy may work immediately, but in the long run, it is really not good for the person himself. I used to think that I spent all of my time at my current job, and it only lasted 3 days when the body clearly felt fatigued. Perhaps I think this problem will be lighter when we are aware of what we are doing to have a reasonable life in balance between material and spiritual. And there is no need to be too negative when looking at it as a threat, when this is a job with more opportunities for personal development.

Our profits or whatever we make is just secondary to our health. If we won't take care of it, it will go back to us and we may end up spending more to resolve our health issues. So before something bad happen, we need to address it early. Don't wait for something to come up, as it may be expensive to treat or already too late. Remind ourselves to live healthy as much as we can. In these challenging times, we can't afford to spend in unnecessary expenses.

Very common action of someone or people where they do make out adjustments when its already too late or they are already experiencing up some problems which is something not really that not really surprising and this is really a very wrong kind of behavior on which we should have done it earlier so that we wont really be coming into a point that we are really be having some health problems.
Health is Wealth and we should really bare that on mind because if we dont then we would definitely be regretting that we had just been ignoring this earlier.
Yes, you might have the money but you cant have that perfect healthy body which would be still useless.

This is the path to an improved health, people only decide to exercise and do something about their health when it is too late, if you take your health seriously at such a young age then you will feel way better when you are old.

Now exercising will not really extend your life by a lot but it will increase the quality of your life tremendously, which means that when you are older you will be in a way better shape than other people with your same age that did not do the same, I know it is something hard to do, especially when you have not exercised regularly during your life, but it is worth the effort.

There are some traders here who are likely to suffer the biggest loss in the scriptures again because the basis of other diseases due to stress is extremely you have to follow the trading strategy in case you don't do it you will save your bio and rest in peace at night.  The less energy you have here, the less energy you will have, so you will be able to sleep properly and always keep an eye on the mother market.

All activity faces what is called occupational disease.

A few years ago a teacher of my primary stage, I remember that he said "I'm going To therapy ", every morning I keep listening to the timbre of the school ... She was almost 30 years old, in the same institution, it was something that in a way surprised me, as something so trivial, can affect certain people.

The point of the above is that it always takes us to the individual plane, it is very difficult to know how certain activities affects us and how to get away from them if it is what we are passionate about, but in effect and it is the importance of its Op theme, this things that we like can cause us problems in the long term.

I was a couple of years playing poker Onine and suffered Problems in my hand, has a name I do not remember it, but the use of mouse incorrectly can bring you physical problems, It's not incredible if you think about it! Seriously, but it happens.

Then when you realize that something is wrong not only with your bankroll or your game, you realize that you have ignored simple things because you believe that they were not necessary.

Hardware, for example, there are special mice for activity, there are mice with up to 18 programmable, ergonomic buttons from $ 20 to $ 100, for putting a price strip but there are even more expensive.

And that without adding the concentration that is required when you play, for which there is also support, as software that They help you make decisions.

These two things pointed out previously not only improved my game if not that they allowed to have longevity in the activity.

Then with trade is not different, there is a lot of hardware, software and bibliographic references that teach you to be in the environment, all this can help you in the long term of your activity, so not only a technical analysis, sit down hours, money, etc. In activities so plaintiffs as trade whatever you ignore may have relevance.

Psychological effect is one of the causes of occupational hazards of trading crypto for a long term. When one invest for a long period of time and find out that the market is bearish,one tends to lose their sanity and state of mind which can affect their sense of reasoning or the way in which they relate with others due to their investment crypto. Also stress factor cannot be overlooked, due to the fact that the trader will be online 24/7.

Each and every profession have got some after effects. To overcome the same we need to follow healthy lifestyle from the very beginning days than having different health and workout plans after retirement. When we talk of crypto trading as a profession, what mostly gets affected will be the eye sight, blood pressure. To avoid difficulties after retirement, taking precaution is good. The blood pressure play its role. In particular, some traders used to alter the sleep based on different time zones to watch the market. When sleep is being altered automatically it'll lead to low/high blood pressure.

Everything should be in balance or in moderation because everything which is excess does really have that corresponding risk or effect thats why you should really be mindful about that.
Speaking with trading where you could really mess up your life if you do invest on the amount which you cant afford to lose thats why its important that you should know about risk management.
Health is one of the things to be affected thats why take up some exercise and make yourself fit.Most of the time you would be sitting.

The real danger there is when a trader uses full funds and lost it, they cant get crazy and can lead to end their lives but trading itself is less dangerous compared to outside jobs that you use on your example because you can do trading inside your house. You cant get exposed to the deadly virus and chemicals. No debris can fall at you, etc... and what makes you think trading can cause a high blood pressure? It is because of the price?

But, we can practice to stay calm and accept whatever happens with the price because that's how it works. It's a normal thing, this is the only major obstacle that we can face on this job. The real cause of high-blood presure can be the food that you eat but if you will eat healthy or control what you eat, you will be safe.

All of these things would really be experienced if you are really not good on handling out yourself or having that good control or making balance on everything which i could say that it is really hard
specially if you are really making full time trade then these things would most likely to happen.

I havent experienced on going full time but only on partial manner which it do really get some good chunk of time when you do make trades but still im trying out to balance everything
from other things or priorities in life specially having the time for yourself and with  your family which i do say its the most important thing of all.

Hazards someone could face as result of long time crypto trading as career is
phone addiction.
Not having time for yourself and family.
Getting your account hacked.
Forgetting, misplacing and loosing your key phrase.

Back problems anyone? . I have been sitting in front of a PC for many hours a day for many years and it started to impact my weight a lot and my back a lot. That's a personal thing of course, there are many people who work in offices with many hours and little breaks and they do not have back problems because they work out and take care of themselves.

I psychologically felt that I was letting go a lot and started a work out in a gym a few months ago (around 3 or so I guess) and went there for like a month but then I gave up.

It is just too much time and effort to stop working, go to gym by walking, work out there, walk back, take a shower and get back to work. That took nearly 2 hours of my life and I really do not have 2 hours to spare for the time being. However, I will try to do a lot better at my work so that I would be able to go back to working out, I really need to.

This is surely one of the major trading hazards that a trader can have in the long time because there is excess exposure of light to the eyes which is really not good for time to come. It is wise to protect the eyes


A trader isn't suppose to worry so much on what he is missing because that will bring pressure to the heart and it can cause it to fail. Doing trading as the only source of income is the reason , it is good to have other source of income while doing trading.

Eventually, money has become so desirable that people tend not to mind or even have time to think on the effects that might arise in there being at a thing or trade for far too long. Only when the effects begins to manifest does it all makes sense and at most times, its when they are old and all wrinkled, when they care so little about there lives anr its left for there kids, loved once or the fortune they might have acquired to see them through. With trading offering a lot of opportunities for the minions with a work from home mindset, people just dive in and hope to come out evrrytime whole but that's not likely to be the case when your always on your screen, handling different kinds of emotions.

1. Deteriorating eye sight.
As a trader, especially the scalpers, your bond yo often  return to your screen at regular intervals. You can imagine, your on screen whole at work and even off your work, you've got a screen in your TV or mobile phone before you who means, you've joy constant lights in your eyes and you've hot to be sure, that's got some real effects in the long run.

2. High blood pressure
In fact, this is one popular one for most traders and they sure deal with these a lot. Emotions are known to either bring joy or pain and most times fir traders, especially those that tends to do very badly, its often pain. Take a lot of that and your nerves and mind would be messed up.

3. Over consciousness
I really ront know how to classify this but as a trader, yiu seem to be over conscious on what you could be missing at every point you aren't trading. Even when your trading and tends to go off your screen,  your mind still races over to your trades. That too could build up pressure on you.

Going long term might be the way out, just buy and hodl, bitcoin to be precise but that too needs you to be a patient someone and with spare money at that to keep your mind at ease and away from some of the negativism that might come with the profession.

You really want to leave such exchanging as quickly as time permits, when you as of now have adequate reserve funds. The gamble is losing cash because of the execution of some unacceptable methodology. Doesn't ensure day to day benefits, some of the time need to manage long negative business sectors, and deferred income.

All depends on how people deal with this since if they just go there believing that they became rich for trading altcoin but didn't get what result they expect for sure we will see them suffer from depression especially when some of them lose a lot of money or their life savings. But if they are risk taker which have a lot of money for sure we cannot see them feel like this but instead they will learn from their experiences.

It is clear that if you eat healthy and exercise everyday, it should have much better results in the long run. Of course you can't be suddenly healthy after just a month or two, you need to do this as a habit. If you have a habit of walking 30 minutes a day, you could have a very healthy life in the long run.

My father is a great example for this, God gives him even more health, we never know what could happen, we could lose our lives tomorrow, but he is 62 years old and probably healthier than me . He walks 30 minutes a day every single day for the past 40 years, he used to play football when he was younger, and now he is still having no health problems at all at his age.

I think I would agree about developing high blood pressure but it also depends on your lifestyle, on what you eat and how often you do exercise. The thing I could say that someone would develop in the long term is the emotional damage they could get if they are not going to be a successful trader. The positive thing that they could develop would be proper risk management, money management, and emotional control.

 I am not even that old, just 32 years old and even I end up with dizziness and high blood pressure time to time. Its not a constant thing but it does happen to me when I spend too much time in front of my PC. Some days it takes me  longer than usual to work, sometimes its too much work and sometimes I just feel like working a bit easier. During days when I push my limits, I really have bad days afterwards mentally and bodily. I am just 32 years old right now but been working in front of my pc for the past 6 years. I can't imagine what will happen 10 or even 20 years later. I will probably have very bad health, I need to fix that asap. Diet, cutting out sugar, and walking 30 minutes per day would be a great start.

Body would really be having significant changes as we do go older which is indeed inevitable but we could avoid it actually if we do really make out some proper exercise and diet but of course with the nature of our

work would really be affecting our lifestyle which would really make us miss out those times on maintaining our body even if we arent just too old.Take a balance on everything from exercising to proper nutrition.

Dont put up too much focus on making money or on your work because all of those things would be useless if you are sick and been hospitalized.

You are right however there is just one big problem, the number of traders that actually become successful in any market is on the low side, which means that there will be a huge deal of people that will get those issues but they will not have the money to treat their conditions in the future.

So it is important to tackle those issues before they become chronic problems for ourselves and exercise regularly, it may not seem to do much over the short term but over the long term you will find that you will have way better health than your peers that did not took the time to do some exercise when they were young.

Unfortunately high blood pressure while doing a job is something that happens after a certain age no matter if you like your job or not. I used to do the same job and had no problems, these days I am a bit older and doing the same job that I love so much, and yet it is a bit mentally tiring and it gives me some health issues time to time, not knowingly, it is just about pushing your limits when you are older. I am just 30+ years old, not really that old, not even 40 yet, but it has started to happen.

If I work more than 12 hours a day, and that is most days, that becomes a big trouble for me and I get tired and dizzy for the rest of the day and take an early sleep that day, will probably do that today too .

...the bricklayer (mason) who begins to stoop and bend with age. Theirs is heavy duty that takes away their strength. I always have pity on young lads who indulge that line of occupation, knowing what they're likely going to pass through when they're old.

I get your point OP. However, once this becomes a reoccurrence, know that you aren't getting it right. No one should be scared and restless doing a job/business that fetches them money except it's something illegal.

You will experience this when you over leverage or stake more than what you can afford to lose. Another way is if you put all your bills on your trade and wait upon it like your life depends on the profit from it. You pile pressure on your trade, it returns the pressure to you 🤔. If people learn to trade with ease (like it's fun), it eases off the pressure.

For me, the hazard is in the lack of regulation that increases the risk outside of trading itself. One invests into a project and the projects goes rogue and one's cash disappears into thin air.

Honestly, I'm feeling bad with my health because of sitting too long in front of computers doing a lot of stuff and even not related to trading.

I trade not at all times but still leave some trades day by day but not actively monitoring all of them. Just like setting sell order and that's it.

I've come to realize that I need to take care of myself and need to have a self reflection whether I do trading or not, the time has now come that I need to give importance to my health.

I am not sure if this could be for long term but maybe anxiety? Anxiety about losing your position, Anxiety that the price would crash and probably would lead to insomnia since you wanted to watch your trade even though you have a stop loss. All of these was my experience in trading which I hope would not affect me in the future.

for me i don't think there's a danger associated in trading especially in long term such those what you mentioned above , because indeed you will be pressure in trading only unless if you are newbie because you need to study hard and to practice skills in order to become a good trader, but when you becomes all good for sure even 1 hour in trading every day is enough.

And if we were talking about health, well it depends on us if we will respect our selves.. If you are very hasty and greedy for sure you will be pressured and will have a health problems afterwards.

-Mental problems if lose a lot of money on the process.
-Suicide attempt while loses on trading.
-Eyes problems when too much expose on gadgets and laptops.
-Lack of nutrition due to staying on seating 24/7. Forgot to do physical activities. Could lead to some sickness related to body.
-Change of body clock and lack of sleep.

Mine would be eyes issues, cryptocurrency traders spend so much time on the screen that they're liable to have some eye issue in the future. How to avoid this is knowing how to adjust your phone or laptop screen brightness to reduce the impact of light from the screens of your device on your eyes. Minimize you screen time and also you can also get a reading glasses to prevent your eyes from having direct contact with the lights from your screen.

Another hazard which I can think of is 'the miss out on potential future gains that the project invest in could have given in the long run. While this isn't a health issue, it still a financial issue. History has proven time without number that the best better of achieving financial freedom in the space is just by holding (investing) instead of trading.

Majority would really be having that mindset that whatever health issues that it could potentially imposed as long they could earn big money or profits then it wouldnt really be that an issue but actually

people should really be mindful when it comes to this kind of behavior because whats money if you health is at risk or in problem which isnt worth and be mindful or its better for everything to be balanced not not compromising your health.

Health is much more important because if you dont put importance to it then those profits you had made will really be just used for possible hospitalization or with some medication.

You bet and said it right.

This is the current situation of many today. Sitting long hours without standing up and do some stretching and experience those problems that you've mentioned.

They don't matter as long as everyone is making huge money not just from trading and anything related to crypto that will require them long hours of sitting and focusing to what they do.

People more than ever are looking at a computer or smartphone screen almost all day, and while those screens have been optimized to use the least amount of energy at the same time the light they emit is incredibly damaging to your eyes.

So there are only two options, to reduce our usage of those devices or to buy one of those glasses that filter that light and that allow you to protect your eyesight, since most likely this will become a massive health issue in the future if we do not take care of it while we can.

Stress. That may lead to pouring the madness to other people, next to it is losing friends and family.
Lack of sleep may cause long-term insomnia.
Mostly, will be mental problems. I am not even a full-time trader but I felt it before. Especially on the day of selling out where you want to maximize the profits that you will make. It will wake you up every 5 minutes or worse it won't let you sleep at all. There must be discipline in trading to avoid health problems.

For a full time trader who stare at the charts 24/7 will soon have spinal problems, visual defects and probably obesity. But people don't really care as long as they are getting richer because when you have money you won't be worrying about your future so you can think and act how to overcome everything once you made money.

You would  able to realize it along the way that dealing with this one isnt something simple and its true that the main problem here is on how to maintain it even though not on daily basis but on monthly
basis.You cant just let on having $100 capital as for people would really make use bigger amounts for faster accumulation which i could say a very wrong mindset to have but usually this had been the case and thats the potential cause of some problems on your future trades and as for health dealing then everything should be balance and not off track.

The thing is, you could make a 5-10% profit if you know what you are doing, but the consistent part is the difficult part. If you go into crypto trading full time, and try to average even 10% monthly, you could get rich a lot, you do not have to quit your job during the first year.

Even if you start with 100 dollars, in 10 years that would be a lot of money, in 20 years you will be richer than your wildest dreams. That is a HUGE amount to average. Why do people not do it then? Because, it is not easy to achieve and there is a big chance that you will lose money time to time dropping your average a lot lower and then it will take even longer to recover hence why it is not done by everyone.

There are things which it could really be putting you on a situation on where you could really be still affected with stress or shall we say that things becomes unbalanced even you are on your comfort zone or doing

things which is really that having in your passion which i could say that very normal thing to happen.Proper time management and handling out things accordingly is suggested and if you do see that something is

off balanced then try to make out some adjustments on which you wont really be compromising something because it might mold out some problems in the future.

The above mention hazards can be get to any kind of works to be honest especially if you are in a place or work where you are not feel comfortable and not happy to what you're doing. For me, those cannot be avoided but atleast the possibilities to make it worst can be lessen by having a self limitation on what you're doing. I don't think also that stress can be avoided in trading but atleast we should know how to handle it properly. After all, I was hoping a happy earning to everyone and let's not forget to take care of ourselves too.

These are mainly what I can think of also for the possible bad effect of trading in the long run. Stress can cause many problem, like lack of sleep, bad eating habit and worse, depression.

We are aware that trading is not often about gaining because there are also rainy days if everything didnt go accordimg to planned.

But these things can be avoided or somehow diminish if we can handle ourselves especially our emotions and know how to balance everything to still have a healthy lifestyle.

This is personal choice, so it is up to you how you will manage your trading activities. Assess your situation if you think you are getting negative impact from this activity. Since this activity is on your own accord, better evaluate things and plan your trading activities that will not deter your health situation. As you are working on your own, it is your responsibility to take care of this matter. But it is true, your health is at risk if you will not take care of your business.

The occupational hazard will start with you, and the cause if you make trading a profession. Because it's not timed, the longer you unconsciously bind yourself to it.

So far the trade has not had much of a medical effect on me. It's just that 2 years ago I felt the peak of the social effect and it was also felt by the people around me, I increasingly did not have time for family and relatives.

This is why we have to take the kind of risk that we can survive when it fails. Taking this into count, some traders have the believe to make money in trading just few months into trade and they resolve to increase risk appetite. They may be lucky sometimes but definitely not all the times so it is better to go gradually and get there and not to go fast and end up in sick bed or deformed from effect of sickness when they get old.

I can completely agree with the notion of trading crypto, crypto derivitives or any stocks even, can and will cause high blood pressure. This furthermore can lead to strokes, heart attacks and other serious issues. Too many people treat trading like gambling. So you could say that the same health issues, including addiction and depression, which effects gamblers also are the same conditions which effect traders.

Basically, don't trade with a bad heart and a bad state of mind...

You couldn't sleep at all when you do deal with 50-100x leverage and i have already some experience on that one on where your mind and emotion would be mixing out and in result you could not able to sleep well.
So take the risks which you could  able to deal with and not making yourself having that anxiety and stress overall because if your mind on a certain sate then you would definitely making your body prone to lots
of health risk.

The biggest harm to the health of traders is caused by nervous stress, which is the basis for other diseases. Therefore, you need to follow the trading strategy, in this case you will save your nerves and rest peacefully at night. After all, this is a time-tested truth: the lower the leverage, the stronger the sleep.

Not only on health issues (highblood, lack of sleep, anxiety, impulsive on emotion)
You are also making things un balance like (social, time with your family)
Everything should be balanced and handled well.
Lack of exercise because you are actively watching the moving market then it is one of the culprits of health issues.

5-10% is really that easy or attainable when you do make out crypto trades which is something that would be too shallow for a crypto trader but if you do stich with stocks or forex then having these

gains does consider you out as a good trader but of course acquiring such skills wouldnt really be that easy or could attain on a short span of time.If you arent sure on your capacity then
better not to rush things up on quitting your day job just because you do go for full time because you cant be sure if you could really able to sustain it.

The biggest "occupational hazard" would be getting addicted to crypto trading,just like many people get addicted to online and offline gambling.Addiction could lead to multiple negative symptoms.
I don't think that the term "occupational hazards" fully applies to crypto trading,because crypto trading is not a full-time job and nobody is forcing the crypto traders to stay in front of their PC from nine to five.
Anyway,the possible side effects of staying every day sitting in front of your PC can be
back pain,neck pain,anxiety,obesity(eating more and having less physical activity),insomnia,higher stress levels,depression(after losing too much money).The list is endless.However,those side effects aren't closely related to crypto trading.

Something else that I haven’t seen anyone point out yet in this thread is that being a full time trader you will have to be fully focused on your screen, and since you are required to be focused on your screen most of the time, it can also have an effect on your site later on.

So, it would be very important that anyone who is a trader takes this into consideration and be careful with the time they spend watching their screen so that it doesn’t affect their sight later on. Although there are now some features that comes with computers and smartphones these days, which is known as blue light filter  that aims to reduce the effect blue light may have on us. But even at that we all need to be careful about having our eyes fixed to the screen all the time.

If you had a occupation, don't quit it to do trade as a full time. Full time trade is not a easy one. You need to inverse certain amount and get that out with a profit. If you get 5-10 percentage of profit it's enough. But you need find the dump point. Dump point is the point at which all the cryptocurrency started to reduce a huge. When the point is find by you, you no need to worry about the pump or dump. You will not regret for the trade you had involved.

I think there is the risk of sight. A trader especially day trader and scalper are use to being under watch of their trade orders and that is meaning staying under the rays of the phone screen or computer/laptop. So this is an effect, even at the moment if you don't use glasses as protection, you are at risk.

The biggest risk is not being able to stop where you need to be. all because of greed they went blind and sacrificed everything. When bankruptcy occurs, stress always comes to us and regret makes us despair.

Does losing money count? Cause tbf, all the psychological stress and whatnot that comes with trading is mainly due to the fact that we're mostly going to lose money in every venture of trade that we do. From that well it spirals down to mental health damage, stress, depression, etc., basically anything negative that could hit your emotions, not to mention that it also hits your wallet pretty hard. There's also the fact that ignorant people entering trading would get hurt more (granted it's their fault for entering without knowing anything) and would probably lose a lot more than the regular trader.

I can add to this, the higher the leverage, the higher the risks that will lead to a more severe health disorder. Accordingly, if you stick to risk management, you can significantly reduce not only the loss of your deposit, but also the negative impact of stress on your health.

Trading is bad by multiple reasons

• Most of traders are in loses, not in profit. About 5% of them can earn profit
• Most of traders spend too many times on computers, laptop, on chair, in front of computer screen that consequently result in some health issues: physically and mentally. Physically, some issues can be Herniated Disc, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, etc. Mentally, lots of stress.
• When you are in loss, you will make next worse decisions and kill yourself.
• Don't use large part of your capital for trading. It's better to use Spot trading and please don't start leverage trading if even with Spot trading, you can not manage your position well enough.

All jobs has long-term effects that can be detrimental to the body and mental, but we can reduce these adverse effects by being disciplined in exercising and having enough rest time so that the body can be fresh enough and can affect the mental as well.
Usually full time traders only have few hours of sleep because the focus on trading the mind is always focused on how to trade.
Stress is higher especially if the trade is not on target
It is difficult to socialize because it is more at home in front of the computer, thus losing its social life.
And there will definitely be many diseases that arise if this continues.

For health, depression is a good example. Since we all know how trading is difficult, it involves money. There is already lof of people who already lost a lot of money in trading, some of that money are family savings money or borrowed money and they just lost in trading, this is a very difficult experience and huge possibility that will lead to depression.

When you are a day trader on intraday trader, the following happens, at least according to my experience, especially as a newbie;

1. Insomnia, lack of sleep or abnormal sleeping patterns (sleeping disorders)
2. Less social. You don't want to interact with friends or go to parties because you feel you have to trade, or you might lose a trade.
3. Less active in terms of physical exercise. Very bad for health in the long run
4. Depression or psychological distress due to lost trades

The solutions I got for these were;

1. Trade less often. Trade only when it's necessary  or when the market is trending. Sometimes I can even trade once a week or every 2 weeks.
2. Risk management to avoid heavy losses
3. Have my mind prepared. For every trade I open, I should expect a loss too.
4. Trade with funds I can afford to lose.
5. Have a personal gym near my trading station.

I find it more stressful when facing the monitor while spending most of the time sitting for long hours if you choose the full-time trader career. Well, it depends to one person on how would they balance their time by doing some exercise each day or to take a break every hour or something depending on when they want to stop. Doing full time doesn't really benefits that much that's why I think working smart than working hard is best way to explain this.

I can add few I remember when I tested trading sometime ago. Trading is very hard if you are not prepared especially this thing that annoyed me and keep repeating, it is when you sell the price always go up and fall when you buy, I keep making that mistake until I got tired and gave my self some break, and what I learned during that period are:
1. Lack of good sleep: It's not that I wake up in the night to check my trades but psychologically, I do remember my opened trades while on sleep, weird right!
2. I don't eat on time: I developed this habit of eating late until I release my ulcer was getting increased, trading affected the way I eat.
3. Trading made me have little for love for family friends, loosing money is not easy, your reaction to your families speak how angry

1. Affecting your eyesight (long exposure on monitor)
2. Emotion (rather impulsive or having that extreme stress)
3. Physical (less exercise.. prone to problems)

You would really experience up things if you dont know on how to balance everything up.
It is true that trading does have some hazards if you overextend too much.

I think it's kinda normal that other people are already prone to high blood pressure regardless of what the job/occupation is. I don't find trading to be that severe to the point that my blood pressure reach a little high -- as of course, having trading strategies first, studying how you behave in each losses and wins and learning from those, is the best practice to prevent such hazard. Still, there are some occupational hazards I have encountered being a student, and...

These are my insights:
1. If you are a student, spending your time in studying trading and the market plus making some positions CAN BE A HUGE BURNOUT. Being an undergrad, especially in college, have a lot of requirements to do. And if you are not good at managing your time or unsure whether to make money in trading or finish your studies, then you would feel being burnt out from time to time.
2. If you are a student, instead of using your money for things you need both in your daily life/responsibilities, then you are using it for trading (without even having a fixed emotion that you wont be frustrated), losing it will have you frustrated for longer period of time without you noticing it at the first place.

It's always go down to stress I guess that may lead to other sicknesses as you may continue, that is why I only do swing trade these days. It's not stressing, you have plenty of time for yourself and family and of course plenty of time to find some part time jobs across the crypto sphere.

This might be pertaining on trading stocks or traditional markets but overall concept or scenario is just the same.

Stress and bad eating habits lead to fatigue, foggy thinking, bad judgment, weight gain and stomach problems.
Stress also can lead to more serious symptoms, such as irregular heartbeats, and self-defeating self-medication, such as heavy drinking and dangerous drug-use habits.
Spikes and elevated levels can lead to increased sugar levels that may induce pre-diabetes or weaken immune systems. Stress can also diminish other hormones—testosterone, serotonin and dopamine, in particular.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/09/market-volatility-is-bad-for-your-health-commentary.html

So stress would be your primary enemy on this one thats why its really that important for you to be mindful or watchful of yourself on whats happening because
it might not directly able to happen but doing this for long period of time will surely give out that kind of probabilities.

Very interesting topic, many people think that since a trader is just sitting down in front of his computer there are no risks but they do exist.

1. Eyesight deterioration. Staring at your monitor is known to deteriorate your eyesight, so a person dedicated to this activity will do so for longer periods of time than the average person which could lead to severe problems on their eyesight in the future.
2. Stress. Stress is known to aggravate a huge deal of other diseases like high blood pressure.
3. Gastrointestinal issues. I remember reading in a book long time ago that the pressure of trading the markets created more gastrointestinal issues in those that traded the markets compared to other professions.
4. Sleeping disorders. Have you ever lost a big trade? Almost all traders have and this can lead you to have problems getting to sleep, if the loss is big enough then it could take you months to recover and the same can be said about your regular sleep patterns, which down the line can lead to many more health issues.

I don't think that's entirely true. Because we do not feel how it is in the field of work. It's just a theory of cause and effect but not necessarily generalizable or also felt by all workers. Good in any field, but not all of them have to enter the world of trading.

I explain, how we reverse the above statement that came out of a medical practitioner who said: for crypto traders, the risk is losing money due to the implementation of the wrong strategy. Does not guarantee daily profits, sometimes have to deal with long bearish markets, and delayed earnings.

Finally, all accuse each other and praise their respective professions. In fact, everything that becomes a job has various levels of risk.

Well going bankrupt and killing yourself is probably the biggest hazard out there besides the 24/7 stress.
What is also unfortunate is that it seems bullruns are much shorter than bear cycles. meaning your happy time is less.

and it doesn't matter where you bought BTC. if you bought at 100, we go to 70k and back to 40k. the 40k hurts. Thats just how humans are. only few can zoom out and see the big picture.

Many occupations are plagued with occupational hazards, that is long term effects of staying in a profession for a long time.

say for instance, For retired mechanical engineers who spent most of their active years working in places with heavy machinery with much noise, you'd notice how they always speak at the top of their voice and may have hearing defects.

For retired medical practitioners, due to long exposure to hospital environment that always has a particular smell, you observe that they may loose their sense of smell.

For Nuclear Engineers, they are at a higher risk of suffering the long term effects of radiation after retirement.

Aim of this Discuss
Trading of crypto full time as an occupation is fast becoming a trend, this discuss is to elucidate the long term effects associated with crypto trading so that forum members who are considering it as a career option can know what they should be expecting and how to avoid it.

The very first long-term occupational hazard i can think of is the development of High blood pressure...

What can you add to the list of dangers associated with making crypto trading a full time occupation?