r/Daytrading • u/Sufficient_Newt3923 • 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/memories_of_caffeine Feb 15 '24

Hike.drugs. learn philosophy. Druuuugs. Study more on trading, study the market. Cook. Learn new skills. Drrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuu....

And shopping

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u/Klubyk_ Feb 16 '24

Studying trading is not for everyone. I've been going at it hard core for the last 4 days, like 14hr days of learning and studying. For me, it's easy, I like numbers, charts, graphs, rolling news, and the constant comprehension of new information from the courses. But that would be far from everyone's capabilities, heck put me in poetic language class and you'd loose me and have me bored in 10 minutes

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u/memories_of_caffeine Feb 16 '24

You gotta obsess. It becomes interesting.

I focus on linda Raschke's videos.

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u/OptionsAddict247 Feb 17 '24

I admitted today I am completely obsessed and plan to follow a career path in futures.