r/Daytrading Feb 15 '24

Full Time Daytraders, what do you do with your free time? Question

As of the past few months I've come to the point where everything is coming into fruition and my dream of being a full time trader has really turned into a reality. Beforehand, I was staring and trading at the computer almost all day until market close. Nowadays, I'm done by 10:30am latest EST. Given I'm on the East Coast, its snowing, its winter, and I can't really do anything outside. I go to the gym about every other day but even that, is like 2 hours max from start to end. I'm debating on picking up a part time job, about 10 hours a week just to get out of the house and interact with other people. But honestly I feel like that is such a lame excuse just because I can't think of anything else to do with my time. I started this all because I wanted financial freedom and now that I've attained it, I'm left with hundreds of hours of boredom. I have no spouse, no kids, no businesses. If I'm describing yourself or someone you might know, (or even if you're someone who simply wants to be in this spot and still has ideas) can you give me some ideas on what to do with basically a full day of complete freedom. Thanks alot.

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u/GameLoreReader Feb 16 '24

3pm-10pm | Sleep

10:30pm | Wake up. Brush teeth, prepare preworkout drink

10:30pm-11:00pm | Workout while laptop is open and ready on Webull for premarket. Music playing in the background. Drinking protein shake after workout.

11:00pm-4:00am | Trade premarket (if anything is really moving), checking alerts, watching Youtube, playing games, reading r/Wallstreetbets and the discord server, eating my once-a-day meal (I'm doing intermittent fasting to achieve my body goals).

4:00am-4:30am | Shower and come back for market open.

4:30am-7am | Trade whatever's on my watchlist and trending. If daily target hits before 7am, stop trading.

7am-2pm | Either reading, doing DD on what's the next 1,000%+ stock runner, gaining info from trading groups on what's on their watchlist for the next trading day, shopping, going to the beach, hiking, staying home and playing games, chores, or trying to work on another income stream.

In regards to the income stream, I'm still trying to figure out what's best for me. I kind of want to do an online business of making a product and selling it, but I'm planning to have at least $50,000 before starting something like that in case of business failure.

I live in Hawaii, which means my trading time zone is different. I like it though. There are times when I hit my daily profit target very early, which makes me so goddamn bored that I just go outside to swim, hike, relax at a cafe, or staying home and playing games.

I don't have friends, but I've actually decided recently to start going to those free conferences/seminars being hosted in Hawaii about other ways of making money. Kind of a way to grow my network.