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I've had that flux thing for one day and it already feels better. Thanks!!!
Fish fry,
You ever thought about moving abroad to UK/Europe or Australia/Newzealand? That's one of the beauties of being able trade full time for a living. And also one of the beautiful things about the global alliance between western countries, Migrating with money to an English speaking country is cake. Pete Davies of Jigsaw lives in Thailand, life must be good with that sort of exchange rate.. haha
I have thought often about trading from Thailand. Many great advantages, mostly being able to trade both the US and European markets and not having to worry about the topic of this thread "Sleep"!!!!!! The low cost of living is just as attractive too. But my biggest concerns after talking with several people is the reliability of internet connections and the loss of power. I start my mornings @ 4:30am and try to be finished by noon. Ideally it would be nice to start at the European open but have found it very difficult to do with lack of sleep caused by others in the house that take for granted when I have gone to bed at 7pm. Maybe someone should set up a "Trading Commune" during the week for traders so we can sleep when needed....
Thought about it, but we have a bunch of family and friends here. Besides, my trading partners and I are getting very close to fully automating our setups using a tool we discovered a couple of months ago. So, hopefully, in a few weeks the whole time zone issue will be moot.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
I can't speak for all of Thailand, but I lived in Bangkok for most of last year. Never had any power cuts, and had a 20mb/s cable connection that rarely cut out( Some ISP's offer up to 200mb/s). If you're living in a modern condo and it's been wired up to support a cable ISP then you shouldn't have many issues once you setup your own connection- if it does cut out temporarily then you could easily just tether the internet from your phone.
Neo1. I trade from 3 am to 4:15, then go back to sleep until ~7:15. I tried flux last night for the first time. I'm pretty sure I got back to sleep faster (usually takes me about a half hour+ or - a bit, but last night I remember very little after I got back in bed).
So, so far so good. Thanks for the suggestion.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
did you build a tolerance to modafinil or is that something that can be taken every day or 5 days a week?
did you ever try binaural videos on youtube (w/headphones of course).. a lot of them are annoying but some are really amazing for focus / concentration / waking up in the morning
While not medical advice, Modafinil is a very powerful drug. I would not recommend to use it to stay up without sleep. Based on studies, performance will decrease and you would need to make up for the lost sleep. It can be used to increase performance, based on studies, when combined with adequate sleep or used for shift work sleep problems or other sleep problems.
When i first started trading FX I would work 8 hours have a 2 hour commute go to the gym for about 2 hours ( including driving working out ect ) go home eat dinner sleep for about 3 hours wake up trade for about 2 hours then go to sleep for about an hour or so and wake up and do it all over again. If you really want it you will make it happen.
it defiantly took a tole on me and some relationships but I loved it and would do it all over again. As Arnold says"sleep faster"
-P
"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie"-Miyamoto Musashi
My trading partner (and wife) had strategies that would run overnight to capture moves in the Euro zone, so to speak. Having a computer wake you up with potential trades at various points in the night got old, really fast. I think that is why she moved to swing trading.
Another alternative, if you trust automated systems, is building a strategy and letting it run. That is basically what we do in our shop.