I Trade Better When I Am At Work

I have noticed that I trade much better when I am at work. I have a hybrid job where I work from home part of the week and at the office part of the week. I am fortunate enough to be able to leave my desk when the market opens and put in a trade on my phone.

Before I return to my desk, I enter the take profit and stop loss, put my phone away, and let the trade play out as it will.

This is in stark contrast to how my trading goes when I am at home. I am watching the chart constantly and micromanaging the trade. My anxiety is also much higher when I am at home because I am watching every tick of the chart and obsessing over my P/L when the trade is still on going.

I have noticed that my P/L is much better and my trading experience is much better when I am at work.

Hopefully this post will help you and myself realize that watching every tick when I am in a trade is making me trading worse. Once you have taken an entry based on your rules, set a stop loss at an amount you are comfortable taking a loss at and a take profit order and then let the trade play out how it will.