Don't be fooled by the posts in your social circle! The real daily life of a full-time trader revealed!
Do you think full-time trading in the crypto world is about staring at the screen and making passionate trades every day? Wrong! It takes time in this line of work to understand - a trader with a million-dollar annual salary spends every day battling "boredom."
The daily life of a trader: much like the "night watchmen" of the financial market.
Every day, in front of 6 screens with dozens of indicators, it's not about staring at the market but waiting for signals. Just like a fisherman squatting on the ice, staring at the K-line buoy for hours. The market spends 90% of the time in fluctuations, and the opportunities that truly fit the strategy may only be available for 10 minutes a day. What about the rest of the time? Either reviewing data or zoning out - the more professional the trader, the more they understand that "not holding a position takes more courage than opening one."
What others see as "freedom" is actually the loneliness of being on call 24 hours a day.
The afternoon teas and travel photos shared in social circles are genuine, but the premise is that your phone must keep the trading interface lit 24 hours a day. Waking up at 3 AM to watch the Federal Reserve raise interest rates, watching fluctuations in overseas markets on weekends, this kind of "time freedom" comes with the helplessness of intertwining life with K-line charts. Newbies find trading exciting, while veterans treat it merely as "moving numbers" - opening and closing positions become routine, and the only time the heart races is when first entering the industry.
Want to get rich through trading? First, learn to befriend "boredom."
Traders who can endure more than 5 years in the crypto world all have a set of anti-human survival rules:
✔️ Use automated strategies to filter out ineffective fluctuations.
✔️ Cultivate more than 3 hobbies unrelated to trading (I relied on writing strategy analysis to get through countless mundane days).
✔️ Treat trading as "digital farming," patiently waiting for the harvest after sowing the seeds.
Remember: the real money-making traders spend 99% of their time battling with themselves. If you are still filled with fantasies about full-time trading, ask yourself first: can you endure the torment of staring at the screen for 8 hours a day without taking action?
