You work a lot less than you think you do

If you ask a trader how much time he spends on the market, most of them will say "All day long"

But let's be honest. If we exclude pointless sticking in charts, endless scrolling of channels and chats - how much real work is left?

Maybe 30 minutes a day. An hour at best.

But because of constant thoughts about the market, it creates the illusion that trading takes up the whole of one's life

A person can spend all day thinking about charts, pondering the "perfect" entry, going over past trades in his head and reading disturbing messages from chat rooms. It seems to work

But thinking about trading is not trading. And feeling busy is not productivity.