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Yes it could, but then consider how much your relationships affect your trading.
The FGF will definetly have a positive or negative affect on my trading psychology.
Can you help answer these questions from other members on NexusFi?
For me it doesn't, I do what I need to and can switch off. I treat my business as I would anything whether studying/trading in that I allocate time to what I need to do and then stop and enjoy life. At the bottom line job should supplement life, not become an obsession to detract. Yes I defintely realise its a harder thing to do than it is to say it, and I do look sometimes at the markets on my phone, but not at 3am on the computer screen etc etc.
I think the draw of the money you could possibly earn can make normal people become obssesive to find the panacea solution/black box that will make them a perfect / profitable trader. In reality my experience has taught me there is no such thing. Personally at that point of singularity (when I realised that, quite quickly as it happens) I learnt to live life happily without being obssesive about things. Instead I concentrated on simplifying what I need to do, and making my process mechanical and attributable to learn. Eg. Journalling and record keeping to hone my skills. But to distill the sentiment of my post, I wanted to treat my learning as a more structured formal process.
Hope that is a little informative and not to lengthy a response :-)
Funny, but this thread showed up on my phone ... reread it and got a good laugh!
That FGF and I broke up a few months later. She was 85% there, but I refused to settle for less than 100%. (Thankfully)
Later that year, in Aug 2016 I met the woman who is now my wife! (Amazing story how that happened)
Now I have someone who is supportive of my trading. She actually will have a discussion with me on it, and listens to the occasional webinar with me (like the Yra Harris interview by FT71).
I can’t accurately describe the significant difference it makes having someone who loves you also give you their support in one’s trading passion... but certainly it gives me a Mental Edge.
For me it just took forever to figure out that happiness is being a bachelor for life with no kids.
With kids, I had all these ideas of living my dreams out through them but instead I actually have to realize my dreams in my lifetime now.
"Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer"
--Bill Maher