Does a Morning Routine have any Effect as a Day Trader?

[Davidvictorson]

Do you have a morning routine as a day trader? I find
that  whenever I follow my morning routine before trading, my focus is unbeatable in the charts and analysis. I usually wake up by 6am and start with cardio or just walk my dog. Next is a light breakfast. Eating light meals is essential because I won't feel very heavy and dull. And on some days, depending on how I feel, I skip breakfast totally for some homemade juice. I repeat my mantra several times ," today is already a great day." After which I go to my computer and start trading. On somedays I make good profits on some other days, I don't. Overall, my morning routine keeps me mentally prepared to face the day. Kindly share some of your morning routine before trading.

[mk4]

A bit of exercise in the morning is always good regardless what your job/profession is — like, I don't know a single person that works out in the early morning who says it negatively affected their day; opinions are always in the positives.

I'm personally not a fan of breakfast though, as I do intermittent fasting.

[Bananington]

Kindly share some of your morning routine before trading.

The morning routine is to help you get the best out of your day by starting the day well. How you start your day has an effect on how that day will go. A good morning routine that sets you out feeling good and positive will influence your energy for that day, you will have a clear mind, clear mind which is required to make good analysis. Imagine having a bad morning where you have a lot of emotional trouble in your head, your analysis may become flawed. A morning routine affects your whole day, as a trader, having a good morning routine that helps you clear your mind and boost positive energy can be essential to making good trading analysis.

[mindrust]

It might have. I mean if  a certain routine makes you feel better, it would force you to make good decisions. If you somehow missed your routine, then you won’t feel so good and when a person is upset about something (in this case it is your daily routine), he/she tends to make shitty decisions. It is all human psychology.

However missing your daily routine is not the only thing that would make you upset. It could be anything. Maybe you had an argument with you wife yesterday and you are still angry at her. That could affect your mood and decisions in a bad way as well.

When you sit in front of the PC and start trading you should be able forget all that. If you can’t trade when you miss your daily routine, then you shouldn’t make any trades that day. Simple as that. First prepare yourself mentally, then make trades.

[Cantsay]

Not related to trading - But, I noticed that each time I joined some student in their early morning jogging routine when coming back from my class, I'm always active and have some unusual energy.
Normally, when you return from night class you're supposed to sleep throughout the whole day to reagain your energy. But, each time I carryout exercises in the morning like jogging from my class to hostel I always observe strength and also that desire to sleep and water the whole day leaves. So I guess applying it to trading could also yield same results as it help to increase your mind's focus and also increases concentration which is essential for trading.

[ololajulo]

To protect themselves, remote workers and those with sedentary lifestyles need to follow a discipline for both health and other aspects of their lifestyle. Exercises, diet, social life improvement, and eye sight improvement aren't the only factors involved.  Additionally, traders receive regular updates on their skills through training.

[Husires]

There are trading bots, you do not need to be connected to the Internet 24 hours to get good profits from the trading bot.
Thus, you can do your daily things and then find that the trading bot has collected profits for you if the strategy that you programmed with it is profitable.
what is the benefit of trading if you cannot carry out your daily life?

[Coin_trader]

Personally nah, I usually trade at night when I came home from my office so that I will have  more data to analyze and also to avoid making my day affected whenever I have a bad trade. At least at night I can sleep away goodbye on losses in case I have a bad profit. I usually do day trading if there's an action in the market like FUD or Hype to make sure that I can earn decent profit on the volatility by just using low leverage trading only. But  I doubt that my morning routine will affect my trading even if I will trade in morning because my trade still depends on the chart and my recent activities usually doesn't affect the result of my current activity unless I have a bad incident on my morning routine that will make me loss focus. I will halt on trading if that's the case tho.

[bettercrypto]

When I wake up in the morning, I first clean the house, prepare to bathe my son, then prepare something for lunch, then water my plants in the garden.

      After my son and I had lunch time, we had some food, fed my dog, and around 1pm or 2pm that's when I could start opening my desktop to do trading activity. And check what happened during the night that we slept.

[Findingnemo]

Having a daily routine which includes workout, physical activity and healthy diet gives good concentration so if we want to focus then we can and can do whatever we wanted.

Myself not really giving much importance to physical activity but keeping healthy diet so I am doing good as far as I know so it really depends on every individuals and what their body reacts their activities.

[naikturun]

I am impressed if you don't get carried away if you are unlucky or experience a loss, it seems that the morning routine that you do every morning can keep your thoughts and emotions under control.So it looks like it's having a nice effect.

[palle11]

I don't really have the morning routine of taking some jog and it is commendable if you don't miss it because it is really I hard thing to keep up with daily but if I succeed to do a walk out, I usually have a positive vibes for that day including being very smart, fast and alert at what I do. As to routine for trading, I usually check set up when I wake up to see if the day will be good for profit 

[teosanru]

Do you have a morning routine as a day trader? I find
that  whenever I follow my morning routine before trading, my focus is unbeatable in the charts and analysis. I usually wake up by 6am and start with cardio or just walk my dog. Next is a light breakfast. Eating light meals is essential because I won't feel very heavy and dull. And on some days, depending on how I feel, I skip breakfast totally for some homemade juice. I repeat my mantra several times ," today is already a great day." After which I go to my computer and start trading. On somedays I make good profits on some other days, I don't. Overall, my morning routine keeps me mentally prepared to face the day. Kindly share some of your morning routine before trading.

All this is nothing but placebo effect. You feel that everything since the morning is going right, you have followed your routine which means everything is going right so you manifest that your trading too will go correct this time and you trade with the right mindset which ultimately gives you profit. You can say it's sort of a chain reaction which sets the mood for everything.

[Jody.Drummer]

Indeed, trading must be done when our bodies are fresh and our minds are not disturbed by anything. Sports activities and the like can reduce stress in our minds and even according to health it is very good to do. If our body is in good shape and our brain is fresh, then our mentality will be very good to start trading.
We can feel it by ourselves, if we just stay silent then our bodies will feel heavy and even as if we are doing hard work, even though, we are not doing anything. However, when we exercise, our bodies feel lighter and more able to carry around to do anything.

[kamvreto]

A good routine and good for your health. You are still lucky to be able to do some routine before trading. it will make your brain more fresh and the work you do will be according to plan. You also wake up early enough and do all the activities that are good for your body and brain, and that will keep you mentally prepared before trading. You're lucky, even now I haven't been able to set the right time so that the brain and body can synchronize and can always be enthusiastic about every activity.

[serjent05]

I did exercise everyday before facing any task.  I jug around the neighborhood for 30 minutes to wake the nerves inside my body.  Not only it is good for our health but also refreshes our thoughts.  I do breakfast after the 30 min, jugging.  I just noticed that whenever I missed my morning routine, I felt a bit laggy so I think it does have an effect on the following activity of that day no matter it is trading or doing tasks.

[hd49728]

It's best for all to start a day with physical exercises as you did your cardio exercise. It helps our body to have better fitness that impacts our mental health too.

With better physical and mental health, we can work better, more productively and efficiently. If trading is your daily job, you have many hours in a day to trade so let's spend about one hour in early morning for physical exercise. That is good for health and your trading too.

Beside health and mental issue, another issue is if you over trade, you make more mistake and get more loss.

An important step before I open a trading position, is to zoom in and zoom out the chart and consider long term and short term situations.

[xSkylarx]

Even small exercise can boost productiveness over the day, just not the hard one. This is mostly what I've heard, and it is also good for health, but I am having a hard time getting up early as my work schedule is at night. But what I do is stretch a little bit before starting my work, which I really don't do before I start to trade as I overlap trading and my work. But I noticed that I don't get easily sleepy, and I think my mind got a boost. 

[blockman]

It's proven that you're at best when you just woke up in the morning because our brain just came from rest through our sleep. I have proved to myself that whenever I just woke up, I'm more productive and capable to do things that I have. You're not yet exhausted so your daily routine in the morning is really gonna help you decide better with your trades. And basically, if your practice is making you productive and you're happy with the results of it, there's no need to change it and you can continue that until you think that it's no longer effective. But as much as you've explained everything, you're doing a good job and that's what a good routine in the morning does and you only need to maintain it.

[Charles-Tim]

The question is, can you trade while you are already drunk?

This reminded me of a man that wrote a cheque for a girl when he was drunk, he added many zeros to the cheque in a way he can go bankrupt, this happened to someone that I know. This has been long but I was unable to know if the girl was able to collect the money from the bank, but I do not think she collected it.

Intoxication makes people to think wrongly at times, do not be drunk while trading.