Topic: Trading 2025. Health is wealth. (Read 461 times)

I appreciate the advice and tips you have given, op, what you have mentioned is also true for us traders in the crypto space field, although, we have time to do our trading activities. But of course we should not neglect our health.

If we are always awake because of our trading activities, it will also affect our health. We should still sleep at the right time that our body needs.
It is better to take a look at the analysis we are doing in trading once in a while.

Health is surely wealth that we must have so we can do many things. I think I have the same experienced like @OP because I trade at night but that affect to my sleeping time. I slept after midnight and wake up in the morning with a not good condition for my body. I realize that if I did that for a long time, that can affect to my healthy so I change my trading time and not trade after midnight. I limit myself to trade before midnight and if I see the market situation still good in the morning, I will continue for a while.

Yes, the market is boring this weekends but I see that we can still make a nice profit although that will needs us stay aware if the change comes. We should adjust the leverage and the capital to trade especially if we are not sure with the market but the best is get out from the market if that is happen.

The market is boring during weekends. Haven't you noticed that? Crypto traders noticed that. If you like, you can still trade during weekends but it is not also bad to trade during week days. All you have to do is to do away with scalping and day trading if you are a very busy type of person. Just go for swing trading and do not use too much leverage but be patient.

If you want to go into crypto you have to very prepared because there a lot people that don't have time and they want to trade, you must be ready to give it your all because it will consume more time than planned and that is why you can not even have a actual time for trading the earlier this is properly understood the better and when you want to trade it will be better to do it during weekends so that you won't have any form of distraction and you have all the time to do what ever you want to do.

When you are into futures then there is a lot of work to be done because you would not want to risk anything when you are doing market chats by studying the charts because the chart is what is going to determine a lot of things or the entire situation because the moment your analysis fails, it will for sure affect your performance so we have to accept the fact that we need to learn. Because you won't be able to sleep well when you start trading because your mind will always be there.

Thank you, Oshosondy for the advice on trading, health and so on.
Yes, health is indeed important for every human being, where in 2024 we will often trade at night, until we don't pay attention to our own health to chase money in crypto trading.

Maybe in 2025 we will change our crypto trading strategy from doing it at night to doing it in the morning or afternoon, maybe at night we can rest with a little peace for ourselves, that's our hope.

Losses are not bad thing for new traders but they are bad thing for experienced traders. I do not use stop loss at all as I prefer to trade with low amount of money and do a little averaging instead. Traders have different strategies. That is the reason I like to check the market so that I can average at the appropriate time. But you can also make a limit order of the average buy instead. That is good but I noticed that it is not good to trade at night. I have tried all my best to avoid trading after 8 pm.

This doesnt really only talks about trading but also in other things as well just like on dealing with your job on which if you do always have that kind consideration on having that kind number of hours when you do sleep on everyday, there are even some specific hours on which the body will really be having that kind of regeneration or repairing body cells on which this is really that crucial when it comes to have a healthy body.  Never take that lacking of sleep for granted or you will be able to tolerate it out because once that body will be having that toll then those earnings you do get will really be just that be used on medical bills on which it is really that useless. This is why you should give out that importance about having a sleep because on the time that you do compromise your sleep then it will be having that negative in long term and this is you should really be that careful on with.

Always consider out on taking up a rest or sleep, even if its on alternate then it will be that really that better rather than on having no sleep at all on which this is really that indeed risky. You should be that careful with your health because money cant by health because once things becomes complicated, no matter how much money you do have on where there are illness that cant be that cured out. So better be careful and responsible into the actions that you are really that into.

Yeah it’s truth that traders can’t just pay attention to their only trading because of the others activities, but the reason why most of the traders really pay attention on the their at any time is that; it because they don’t want to be lose much of their we all know that trading is all about risks; But is good for them to be put much eyes when ever their trading to avoid big losing.

Furthermore, there some traders that they’ve already be a an expert, them know in and out of the trading so those kind of people fits leave their trading on and they will go and do another activities; because they know the actual time they can check on their trading.

This is right, trading could be addictive to some people, and emotionally winning and losing doesn't really have that much different reactions at all. I agree that when you win, you want more, and when you lose, you want to recover, so both do lead to trading more.

I believe it's a sickness if you keep doing that, and because of that I believe that we should avoid it as much as we possibly could, there is no reason to keep doing this. I get that some people are not really that much worried about what will happen and they want more, but it's a risk that they should not be taking. I believe we could avoid this if we know how to handle it, and because of that I believe that the best way to approach this would be just waiting for it.

Yes of course,
A good and successful trader looses sleep because watching and analyzing the market is the "burning desire" in them as the author of think and grow rich will say, every trader will want to be rich at all night in as much as he believes in his analysis. But anyway, sleep refreshes the brain, body and soul while keeping and preparing you ready for the day.

Also, as a trader, you need to eat as much quality foods as you can to stay healthy and wealthy, eat mostly fruits and veggies to vibrate at a standard frequency while enjoying your trading life.

Oshosondy, that is a good question.
Trading activities are very time consuming, especially if traders have to always monitor price movements and market conditions and I experienced this myself when trading in futures. The activity was really time-consuming because I needed to react at the right time to make a profit. The problem is that this activity is quite difficult to stop because of the desire to get more opportunities to make a profit, but in the end I realized that this had disturbed a lot of my sleep time which had actually reduced drastically.

We shouldn't see losing as a bad thing. That's what helps keep traders humble 😏. Without losses traders would be full of themselves that they've arrived. As for keeping awake to monitor your trades, don't you think you've yo reconsider your trading strategy as it doesn't suit your temperament. Perhaps, day trading may be better than scalping where you've to consider a higher TF to pick your trades and allow them run their full course with predetermined SL. That way you're sure to be at peace.

Before that I totally agree with what you said when starting this thread, yes health is wealth and without health there is no wealth. This is the same as what I see in my environment, rich people who cannot enjoy their wealth because of the illness they suffer, for me it is very worrying. And I even think it is better to be simple but can be healthy and can enjoy whatever I want.

Yes, maybe everyone is different, but it is better to consult a doctor to discuss this. What I have recently learned is that our bodies not only need sleep to regenerate the body but our sleep must also be of quality. Well, from what I feel, sleeping at night feels more quality, even though it may only be 4/5 hours, different from sleeping during the day even though I sleep longer, it feels like something is missing. I just share what I feel.

Probably because you have just started trading. Or probably because you are not a scalper or a day trader. Either of the two reasons is the reason you do not understand. Or another reason could be because you sleep more during the day or wake up late in the morning. Regardless of which one it is, what that is important is that you should be getting the appropriate hours of sleep daily. But if trading is not letting you to get it, try to adjust because it can affect your health.

Staying awake and trading when others are sleeping is the fun and shows seriousness in what you do as a trader, I believe we all are different, and my type of person will prefer to stay awake and trade when naturally I should be sleeping because every other persons are asleep, and the reason for this is because I hate being disturbed, being a family man with wife and kids, not every time in the day will be convenient to trade, infact, if you miss trading in the night when children and wife is asleep, you may not have a single opportunity to do so in the day when every one of them is awake and making alot of noise.

So, for me, I do sometimes stay up all night trading, and I enjoy it.
It's better trading at night and finding time in the day to sleep, than sleeping in the night and finding time in the day to trade.

That's why I started avoiding excessive trading and now I focus more on seeing the conditions before entering the market to take an entry.
Experience makes us a lesson and this is where I began to understand that trading can not always provide benefits so that being involved in it must be able to see the potential, so that when we lose in the previous trade we can make a plan in the next trade to return the capital.

If you think about generating a steady income in trading, it will be much more difficult because we never know in certain conditions we will experience an unplanned loss.
What people have successfully done can be a reference for us to practice as a learning experience, but it will not always be the same because sometimes market conditions do not match the strategy or entry pattern that is carried out.
Avoid excessive trading because it will affect mentally and if you want to get involved in trading, try to make the mechanism more responsible.

Yes, because more time is valuable and not just spent trading. Physical health may be overcome by doing more exercise,
but mental health is also needed because trade will attack mental health first.

Looking at the fact that most traders experience a higher level of stress because they are constantly processing their minds to do analysis,
the market and overcome every problem that occurs.

Maybe with a little rest physically and mentally it will make the conditions better. Taking a vacation trip to refreshing and forgetting for a moment that trade is a must.
Trading may make a profit, but it will be very useless if our body is not healthy so we cannot enjoy the profit.

I myself started to organize myself and started to maintain my lifestyle,
taking time for sports and a little walk with my family to relieve the stress of always staring at the computer.

A very big mistake that most newbie traders make is they start learning and trading at the same time. I mean, if you are new in the field, you should focus on the learning part first, and once you feel you are ready, then you should get your finances involved because now that you have learned everything, you can manage things more efficiently and in less time than before. If you mix learning with actual trading activities on the side, you will lose three things: your focus, money, and the time you will waste on all this.

I have seen people spending barely six to 8 hours in a full day on their trading activities, and they split it between two hours with breaks in between. They get up in the morning, check out the market and make a few trades if they see opportunities, stop, maybe go out, eat some food, or do any other things that you need to do, and then get back on your screen and spend a couple of more hours before you do the same thing again.

This way, you will have a balance in your personal life and work life, and this won't let you have any negative effects because of trading.

Speaking of schedule, this is one of the things that I'm doing right now.

Last year, I spent hours and hours looking at the market hoping to see an opportunity and it affected me mentally for a bit, and it's good that I realized it way earlier. What if I did that for an entire year or 2? I might get affected mentally and will end up losing more. This year, I will try to spend at most 3 hours looking for the market and make some trades. After that, I will not do it anymore. Like what OP said, health is wealth and this strategy that I'll be using is one proof to show that I care for myself. It's either I'll make money on that span of time, or will not at all, and that's okay because you can't win it all.

At the end of the day, I hope that all traders here will take care of themselves still and don't spend too much time on trading. There are lots of opportunities out there, so care for your health still even though you want to make money on trading.

Trading, strategy greediness all happen and part of this system with peoples those understand things and also love to have something which helps them for giving time your family and love ones all gone strongly with the fundamentals which are helpful for them.

If we are not able to have strong strategy and also not able to handle things which are important for having good profit from trades still we can go on bad way while we have different views about few things with few are felt long term trading always helps them, and they are able to have good advantage of this but still it needed good technical things and analysis as well short term trading is always not going as we feel if we are not able to give respective time which is important.

OP has started a great topic about caring your health first. We have enormous data about trading and investment but not much attention is paid to health. If you are short term trader then chances are that you will keep waking up to see the market during your bed time at night. If you are not having proper sleep of 6 to 8 hours in one stretch then there is big possibility that you will develop some disorder in your body.
Meanwhile, you also suggested a great option of getting rid of stress and anxiety by investing for long term in Bitcoin. DCA is a great way to accumulate Bitcoin specially for those who don't have big amount and those who keep there health first.

A similar problem with sleep is common to all beginners who start trading with high leverage using their entire deposit for this purpose. And I was no exception to this rule. Obviously, everyone should lose a deposit at least once in order to start studying risk management, after which your sleep will become serene.

Yes I agreed with you on this advice. Health is wealth they say so has a trader is very important you sleep aleast 8hours.

Thank you very much for these wonderful reminders dude, and I also agree with everything you mentioned especially that we don't need to trade every day to get profit.
Because obtaining profit in trading depends on the level category of a trader.

I really appreciated your concerned here to all traders here in the crypto space, I feel what you mean dude, I hope other crypto traders can read this too.

This happens all the time in short-term trading, I remember every time I took a trade, I had to spend time in such anxiety. Because in trading, if we can eliminate the only greed, it is easier to sleep at night, but we are not satisfied with small benefits. Traders who have such an attitude will have trouble sleeping at night, but I think that trading in the long term is much safer and much calmer than trading in the short term.
That is why I have changed my attitude and I am getting used to trading in the long term, because I do not want to spend time in anxiety for short-term trading.

Very few people realize how demanding trading can be, it is because of this that traders should set a schedule and respect it, because if they do not, most likely they will trade for long periods of time that could over the long term jeopardize their health, and it makes no sense to exchange your health for money, since there is no way to restore your health to the way it was regardless of the amount of money that you could make as a trader.

Emotion is somthing very hard to control and that is ilegy no matter how they try everything possible they still are unable to do some certain things because they don't even know the risk that this comes with but emotion is somtimes thay we are are going to be finding very difficult but if there is discipline it is good because that is like the only saving grace and sometimes it does not work that way and when it comes to trading there are a lot of things that should be learn, emotion should be it under control bfore any other thing, and traders is more complicated than we people want to do the right thing by learning.

Trading comes with a lot of responsibility so not everyone can actually be able to do the important things that they are suppose to be doing and knowledge is one of the things that are driven trading so you have to be ready to learn everything to become a successful trader.

By now anyone who is into trading should be able to understand that it takes discipline to stay focused in trading, the life of a trader can somehow be confusing because most of them react quickly based on the outcome of their trade but in all this it takes discipline to control your emotions when you are in profit and when you are experiencing losses in trading. Right now I think someone who was taught by a professional trader should know before trading that it is dangerous to keep chasing losses as it will only lead to more losses and at the end the trader will be affected greatly, newbies should just learn to be ready to accept the outcome of trading before they jump in.

Health is indeed wealth and if you are really that doing excessive then it will really be giving out a huge toll into your body on which we know that this will really be that very dangerous when it comes in overall health and will be ending up on hospitalization and we do know that it doesnt really come cheap. Its not bad to work hard but just like on what every one is saying that on the time or moment that you are already that affecting your sleep or having no break time then this do indicates that you are already doing too much and this isnt good on someones health. It might not be felt or could be seen now but time will come that your body will breakdown and to those amounts that you had gained earlier months or years will really be that spend back again into medication.

Trading has not affected me and take my rest time and I can still sleep well without thinks about my trading time. It is better traders pay attention to their trading activities because they can not trading all day long without doing other activities. Even if they decide to be a pro trader, they still needs to do other things such as eat, buy something, and other things.

When we are tired after trading, we should take a break and leaves the market for a while will be better. We can refresh our minds not to thinks about trading and the market so when we return to trading, we can think with clear and analyze better than before.

Even a pro trader also needs to take a rest so we don't have to force ourselves trading without stop. That will make us can not concentrate and analyze better and could make a wrong decision.

Or better yet stop day trading and do buy low and relax strategy. Maybe doing dca is fine too you can relax with the ups and down of the market without dealing with the anxiety of potential results of trade. We all knew how stressful trading is and can caught some health problems if we abuse our body for that matter. So traders should also prioritize health over money as well.

The reason why I prefer to be a holder is because I experienced what you mentioned, it happened a few years ago, all thoughts were only filled with trading how to open a position and take profit if there is a loss thinking about how much capital should be increased in order to cover the loss and get more profit again.
I am quite sure that many traders experience this because I saw myself how one of my closest people experienced this, especially during the bullish period they thought they would continue to profit so they didn't want to miss the opportunity to get more profit.

If trading dominates you too much then you need to evaluate yourself because this can damage your physical and mental health.

I "used to be" like that, but I have grown my long term holding position a lot more since then, so I am doing fine right now and not really having this kind of trouble anymore. I do have sleeping schedule issue because I am not doing that great at the moment, I have some life troubles and that requires me to stay awake until nearly 5 AM or 6 AM, which means I wake up late, and barely do anything but just work during that time as well, so it is not really an easy life, but that has nothing to do with trading.

My trading happens usually at night, after work is done, and that means I get to trade like at 2am or 3am, and that's not a good period to trade to be fair, nobody should be trading at those hours, and I believe I am making a mistake there.

I guess trading and gambling have the same effect on human brains. New Relationships and breakups also have an effect. So, I won't blame anyone if they had a similar problem while trading. You have to accept it, just like you did in your relationship breakup. Accept the reality and sleep. Start a new session the next day, which will give you a fresh start.

The answer to your question is Yes. Trading affected my sleeping time, and so did the gambling and break-up when I was in school. I am too healthy and trying to lose some weight lately. Nothing is working for me. I guess I should start trading again

This doesnt really only talks about trading but also in other things as well on which it do really affects out your sleeping time on which we do know that health is indeed wealth and if you are already that trying out to compromise your sleep just because you dont want to miss out some opportunities then this is somewhat that understandable because there are indeed times or moments that we do really need to sacrifice so that we could be able to achieve on what we are really that wanting to achieve on which we know that each person will be having its goals or targets in life on which this one is really that understandable but of course everything which is excessive will really be that definitely be bad on which at the moment or time that you are already doing that always on having no sleep then that will affect someones health and this isnt something good. Always make sure that you health is really that on your main priority because earning money will really be that totally useless at the moment or time that you are sick or getting ill because of too much no sleep and ending up those gains will really be that spend through medical expenses or maintenance on which this is something that we dont really like to happen.
This is why you shouldnt neglect out when it comes to health consideration on which its not bad to trade to make money but make it sure that everything should be balanced because at the moment that your body gives up then that would really be a huge problem and that might be resulting into that huge regret for the rest of your life and this is something that you must avoid in the first place.

You are right about all you have said OP. I myself have experienced worst cases when I had to stay glued to my device studying my trades to see any slight change. Not only did it affect my sleep, I became so emotionally exhausted and unstable. I wasn't told this part about trading, I  wasn't told i would lose my sleep and mind that much just to make money. I was only told it was risky and that I can make good money from it. The best remedy I gave myself was going on a long break to recover from the mental stress from trading till I was convinced I am ready to trade again and do it right this time.

Trading is not easy, and I love the fact that fellow traders are already advocating for a more responsible approach to trading to minimise both the risks of losing money and good health.

In trading, discipline is always the key. No matter how your trades went on, as much as possible, always be in control of your emotions. Do not chase your losses or even gains, but manage your time when trading. That way, you won't suffer from having sleepless nights, as it won't never be a healthy practice, especially for beginner traders.

It is always a learning process and trading in crypto is different than trading in stocks as crypto can be traded 24/7 and can be a lot more volatile, especially if you invest in smaller coins or memecoins. But I agree with you that taking a profit is never a bad thing and this is something I always try to do. It is too easy to get greedy in the hopes you gain even more profits but it can end up badly.

It happens to all. As a beginner there is still the curiosity but your only mistake there is you use a lot of money in futures. Didn't you know how risky it was? Hhmm.. In abnormal trading, not only sleep is affected but also the way we eat. It can also affect the way we do other things and social to other people. It's devastating, so we need to avoid it.

That was a proof that what work for others can also work for the other. We often seen that trading is a tedious activity but he also prove it wrong. His way of trading is the same to investing where it also requires waiting for the right entry, but that explains on why we can't earn a regular income through it even though if we trade regularly, we still can't achieve it.

Financial matters control our brain very tightly. We always think about not panicking and gradually profiting daily with a limit. But when we make some profit it doesn't satisfy us that's why we take more new positions in the same day to make more profit it happens to us in trading, gambling and all the money earning. It is very difficult to control your emotions in these cases. And a large part of traders and gamblers cannot control their emotions in these cases due to which they always end up with huge losses on average.

I agree that the crypto market is very volatile and that is why trading it is very risky and reason why traders usually go back to check on their trades regularly but this kind of trading to me actually affects one psychology and as such it is very bad way of trading. There are some ways to actually quench the urge to check ones position regularly and the first one is having an extra source of income there by treating your trading journey as a side hustle,

Another method is having a good risk management, risk management is what actually stops your psychology from been affected in every trade, once you have strong risk management where your stop loss is usually a price where the amount it triggers is the amount you can afford to lose you will be at peace and wouldn’t check your trades regularly. Another one is try to take profit whenever you can and allow the rest trades to run if you can’t hold to your take profit

I had a difficult time in sleeping while I was still not so perfect with trading, sometimes I will have to watch the monitor all day or all night pending when I took the trade. Such behaviors is mostly common with new traders or scalpers because they have not got so much experience or they probably want it like that.

I have consistently focused on trading since October to December last year and few things I have learned so far are:

1: Trading opportunity is unlimited in the market.
2: the market has specific time period where it get more volatile and periods when it only consolidate.
3: you don't have to take dozens of trade every day to be able to make profit (unless you are a scalper).
4: get your trading plan and work with its.
5: agree with the risk terms before taking the trade and apply your stop lose where necessary.

To summarize those four key points, everyday in the market, there's always opportunity to buy or sell so you don't need to have sleepless nights. Always take note of those hours of the day where the market seems to have those volatile move in its trends continuation or reversal. Have a plan in mind to work with. I said this because there's a day I took two successful trade in the day time, then around 1AM I also took another trade which kept me awake through out the night and yet the trade was not even worth the time. Agreeing to risk terms, always have it at the back of your mind that you are not in control of the market and definitely the opposite could happen, so set your stop lose were necessary and if unluckily it got hit, no problem, more opportunity will come and you can still recover the lose if you are and experience trader. If you are still learning, keeping learning.

All these comes when traders choose not to trade the way it is suppose to be. I believe if a trader understands how important to have a source of income that one can depend on it will be easy to trade and not to depend in trading profit so much. Traders needs to understand that the market is unpredictable and should only invest with amount they can afford to lose and also learn to build their emotions and the main understanding of trading, I think with all these one should be able to avoid unnecessary stress.

Traders needs better understanding in trading to be free from the stress in trading. It is only when people understand trading in their own way and try to predict the market, it normally ends very bad.

The specifics of the crypto market is that the market works 24/7 and this makes its own adjustments, you are right when you say that if you have an open position you will want to see what is happening when you wake up at night, or at least think about it, which of course will affect your sleep. I have always said that trading is a very difficult job, sometimes the market makes us nervous and this can affect health if you are not prepared for it.

I avoid to trade at night because I have noticed that it is what could cause someone not to sleep early. I prefer to trade in morning and afternoon. But there are some time you will see a good opportunity to enter the market at night but which I do not prefer to do anymore. Although if you are trading bitcoin with low amount of money, you can be able to leave your position opened and sleep conveniently. Just like since yesterday, I have bitcoin long position opened and I was able to sleep very well but the market is becoming annoying again and the price is not increasing further.

Thank you for your suggestion. That is what we must do as a trader because we can not use all day long to trade. We are so lucky that we can enter to the crypto market anytime we want. With our analysis skill, we can determine if that is the right time to enter the market or we need to wait for more.

I can manage my time to trade. I don't use most of my time to trade because I have other activities every day. Maybe I will trade in the morning, daylight, afternoon, or even night. But my trading time is not affects myself because I can sleep when it's the time.

This exactly happened to me at the beginning of knowing trade and spending time just to see the day and night market, but much worse I lost a lot of money in Future trading so that it makes life far more out of control.
I know one person who can be said to be successful in trade and he began to suggest the journey process that must be done in trade so that I slowly apply this method and eventually succeed.
Trading does not have the opportunity to profit regularly so he starts to advise me by looking at the right moment when he wants to open an entry.

Abnormal trading will indeed affect sleep time because we are too busy looking at the market and finally our health is actually disturbed due to lack of rest.
No need to trade at any time or in other words daily trade because we can take advantage of the weekly moment to be involved in it.

like it or not trading will always impact us psychologically, we can act like trading won't be influencing us but truth is deep down there is always this sense of worry that things might go wrong and our trade will result in loss, as a result, we can't help ourselves but to monitor the market 24/7, everytime I opened a trading position I always looking at my phone constantly, checking every 15 minutes or so.

it's such a burden but that is the risk of trading I guess, the constant market volatility is a hell psychologically speaking, this is the reason why so many traders retire young.

I understand how trading cam frustrate someone's life and health. It is not easy at all. I will recommend you to be using low leverage and also do not martingale but average instead. These are the most important part of trading. Also it is good to take a break at times just as you have planned.

I read the post of other people also. We all understand how trading can deprived people not to sleep. I hope we would avoid having this bad part of trading in 2025.

Thanks for reminding us. I felt both of these one when I'm trading just a few months ago.

When I'm winning, I feel that I want to trade again because of the adrenaline rush and the desire to make even more profits. I already set a target daily quota, and despite reaching it in just a few hours, I feel that I need to trade more to get more profit. While this hasn't affected me financially since I still made profit after that, it affected me a bit mentally because instead of doing other things like playing online games, or watching videos, I'm out there watching the market goes up and down and find it stressful.

As for the "watching the market even at night", I remember when I opened a position at night, and when I'm about to sleep now, I saw that I'm down 20%. I decided to wait to go up and at least be breakeven even though I feel sleepy. It took me 2 hours I think before I'm in profit, and even though I ended up making money, the stress isn't worth it at least for me.

It affected me a bit that's why this year; I already made a decision not to make any trades if I will be sleeping or if I enter a position, I will make sure that I will have a stop-loss and take profit.

I fully agree with OP, I have been trading for many years too and I believe it has really taken away my sleep multiple times. Trading is a good thing by the way but we all know that as traders it's important to monitor the market everyday to see how market moves and for that a good trader often spend countless hours.

I personally give 2-4 hours per day to my trading but sometimes that 4 hours can be 8 hours and there are days when I sleep late night only because of monitoring the market. Although, I'm someone who doesn't trades all day or everyday because I'm more like a opportunistic trader rather than a day trader or scalper, but still it's a time consuming task and one should take rest properly to remain healthy.

Sleep is very necessary to maintain a balanced mind and emotions that are essential in trading. A trader who is mentally or emotionally disturbed will likely make more mistakes.
 Traders can lose sleep over some trading outcome that goes bad for them, but a trader should not lose sleep from trying to overanalyze the market. There should always be time allocated for rest.

No need to chase because it makes you look like an undisciplined gambler.

If you’re manually trading, that’s fine, but you should also consider using automated trading platforms to be more effective. There are plenty of options online, just take the time to learn how to use them properly so you won’t feel pressured managing your time. It’s true that health is wealth, and that should always be the top priority so you can fully enjoy the profits you earn from trading.  

Well, I did experienced that when I was still a beginner in trading. I slept only just few hours and then monitor the price again, that becomes a habit actually. Later, I realized that it won't be healthy for me anymore. Even if I'm in profits but seeing my health in danger, that would really scare me to death.

Now I'm good already in managing my time. I only trade whenever there's a free time, and if there's sufficient amount for me to trade. Responsible trading is a must, prioritize health over your greed for wealth.

Yes, I am very influenced by trading. Sometimes I have seen a lot of losses and a lot of gains in trading while sleeping. I still see in my sleep that I have lost a lot from the trading platform and sometimes I see a lot of gains because all day long when I think about trading, I always see the market, which creates the same situation. The brain is something that people think about all day long in their dreams while sleeping. I have lost a lot from my trading in 2024 and I don't know how 2025 will go. I still have a loss of more than $340 on the trading platform. I may have lost a lot because I am not very experienced in trading platforms. But I hope that 2025 will be a very good year for trading platforms.

Trading has dealt with me bitterly in 2024 and I have made it part of my New Year's resolutions to stay away from trading for the whole first quarter of this year 2025, trading gets you depressed and overworked all the time, aside from the occasional loss that comes from trading it effects on our emotional well-being is also an alarming thing to consider while trading.

A famous quote and the movie's dialogue is its not about how much you earn it's about when to stop, also it's not about the journey it's about the end how you've ended you started and lost but won in the end you are a winner always but if you won at first but ended as a loser because you didn't knew when to stop.

SO as Op said health is wealth and sleep on time is necessary even though these days I'm sleeping at the day and working at night haha, still focus on your timetable as any kind of hormonal change can soil your old age life. Have some rest and remember when to stop because it's just a number game here, some people find 100 bucks enough for their month some find 1k some 10k and some don't even find 100k enough, so it's all about the perspective and your lifestyle. Live simply as in the end when you are dead all of this means nothing except for your good work and contribution in society.

Reference of movie: Lucky Bhaskar.

Thank you for the advice.
Traders need to sleep. There are some traders who brag about not sleeping like others because they want to make money. I see their posts on social media, they'll say while you are sleeping we are working hard to make money, so when you see us balling just know that we paid our dues. It may be a little exaggerated but it's something like this.

A good 8 hours of sleep at night keeps yours restful, awake,and active. Small errors that lead to losses will be avoided with adequate sleep. Health is wealth and is only the healthy that trade effectively.

I hope all traders on this forum a good 2025. I advice all traders to pay attention to their trading activities. Trading can be time demanding because if you win, your brain will tell you to continue to trade and you will open new position and watching the market. Also if you are losing, you will keep on watching the market even in the night when you suppose to be sleeping. I have been trading for some years now and I know how it is if there should not deceives ourselves. My advice for all traders this year is to make sure that you do not let trading affect your sleeping time. Also make sure you have time for yourself and not trade everytime.

Has trading not affected you before in a way that you did not sleep because of trading?