{"id":51471,"date":"2022-01-10T13:11:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=51471"},"modified":"2022-01-10T13:11:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:11:53","slug":"elite-trading-requires-setting-time-to-have-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/elite-trading-requires-setting-time-to-have-fun","title":{"rendered":"Elite Trading Requires Setting Time To Have Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-51472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balance-1024x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"846\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balance-1024x208.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balance-300x61.jpg 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balance-768x156.jpg 768w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balance-610x124.jpg 610w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balance-100x20.jpg 100w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balance-846x172.jpg 846w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balance-1184x241.jpg 1184w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/balance.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This tweet was inspired by an independent trader struggling to balance his personal life with his trading.\u00a0 He reached out for help.\u00a0 He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to consult with you about a certain thing that I have not been able to change for two years, since I started trading and it bothers me a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I can not balance my personal life with my career life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am 21 years old, I started trading at 19, I started from nothing, no one around me knows anything about success so I researched everything possible, personal development, psychology, economics, lots and lots of quality books and lots of quality content until I got to trading and of course I found my destiny \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it sucks so much, I have no second in my life that I do not think about trading, studying, trading, analyzing the trades, watching videos of my trades<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 5AM until I go to sleep and also in my dreams I dream on trading, which is good and great but, I have to balance so as not to be too busy with thoughts and it is good sometimes to be thoughtless, I just do not succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it&#8217;s my blessing and curse in life to be so focused on my goals and the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wanted to ask if you have any advice to give me so I can balance my life a bit.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please join the conversation to help this trader on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBellafiore\/status\/1479842461472202760\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bella thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are my thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>1. I was on a Zoom call in my NYC apartment, after putting the kids to bed, reviewing the yearly goals of two elite traders.\u00a0 One was an international trader, who is one of the best in his space in his homeland.\u00a0 The other is an elite trader at a tier 1 prop firm.\u00a0 I had read the yearly goals of the international trader and started with the very topic raised by the trader above.\u00a0 I asked this star international trader: where your time to have fun?<\/p>\n<p>From my seat, elite trading performance requires a trader setting time to have fun.\u00a0 Enjoying your life outside of trading brings you to your trading seat better able to make better decisions in real-time.\u00a0 Your energy will be higher during trading hours.\u00a0 Your focus will be better during trading hours.\u00a0 Your ability to process information will be better during market hours.\u00a0 Your sustained focus will be better during market hours.\u00a0 Your open-mindedness will be better.\u00a0 Your collaboration improved.\u00a0 Your controlled aggression better activated.\u00a0 Your equanimity easier to find.\u00a0 In short, you will be a better trader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Said better, making time to enjoy yourself outside of trading makes you a better trader.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Two of the best traders with whom I work, thoughtfully consider how to make trading work within their ideal lifestyle.\u00a0 Enjoying their life is their ultimate goal.\u00a0 Ensuring that trading does not impede this ultimate goal is implemented.\u00a0 Trading enables them to live their ideal lifestyle.\u00a0 Trading is not their life, but rather a vehicle to live the life they wish.<\/p>\n<p>3. I am sitting in one of our conference rooms during a monthly review and what transpires? Two successful traders at SMB, who run seriously, AGAIN highlight how running helps them trade better.<\/p>\n<p>4. Our top younger trader regularly hits the gym midday to keep his bulk on. Also, hitting the gym helps him destress and recharge for the close of trading.\u00a0 During monthly trading reviews, this star trader pinpoints that keeping fit is a necessity for him to perform as a trader.<\/p>\n<p>5. One of the most effective exercises we ask traders to do is answer this question:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is something that will significantly improve your life that you will be able to obtain, if you hit your trading goals?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For one trader with whom I work, it was to buy a new home for his family.\u00a0 For another trader at the firm, it was to buy a new condo in the States.\u00a0 For another trader, it was to make enough to be able to retire (not that he will, just that he could).\u00a0 For another trader, it was to get their own pad in NYC.<\/p>\n<p>When I first started trading, I really wanted to make enough to join an exclusive gym, with an expensive initiation fee.\u00a0 Next, it was to get my own place.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter how large or small the goal, relative to others.\u00a0 The key is that reaching your next trading goals are connected to a significant improvement in your life.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why this is one the most effective exercises is because it is not just improving your trading, but also improving your life.<\/p>\n<p>6. There is a reason why firms have happy hours.<\/p>\n<p>7. One of the best weekends of 21 was heading to Vegas, with a bunch of SMB Traders, for Traders4ACause.\u00a0 The fun had outside of trading hours builds a stronger bond amongst the traders.\u00a0 Shared experiences, where boys will be boys, cannot be replicated during market hours.\u00a0 Shared experiences (what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!) makes them closer, which leads to more cohesive trading teams.\u00a0 And it builds a stronger bond between them and me, for which I am grateful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-51474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/traders4acause-mural-tweet-1024x862.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"846\" height=\"712\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/traders4acause-mural-tweet-1024x862.png 1024w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/traders4acause-mural-tweet-300x252.png 300w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/traders4acause-mural-tweet-768x646.png 768w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/traders4acause-mural-tweet-610x513.png 610w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/traders4acause-mural-tweet-100x84.png 100w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/traders4acause-mural-tweet-846x712.png 846w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/traders4acause-mural-tweet.png 1041w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>8. <a href=\"http:\/\/traderfeed.blogspot.com\/\">Dr. Steenbarger<\/a>, the best trading coach in the world, and our in-house trading coach, repeatedly and passionately encourages traders to set comprehensive, holistic, and whole-person goals.\u00a0 <strong>For example, senior interns submit their Personal Development Plan, as opposed to trading goals.<\/strong>\u00a0 When there is much to be grateful for outside of markets, losing trades don&#8217;t negatively affect a trader, as they could if your self-worth was overly tied into your trading success.<\/p>\n<p>Being a successful person, full of different things for which to be grateful, increases your chances of being a successful trader.<\/p>\n<p>9. Making a lot of money does not make you rich.\u00a0 From Charlie Munger in <em>Richer, Wiser, Happier<\/em>, a book gifted to me by an elite trader I mentor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it\u2019s a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Train well.\u00a0 Trade well.\u00a0 Live better.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-disclosures?inf_contact_key=86e68ad95cfd2835f919c6dd5a8f153af651f238aa2edbb9c8b7cff03e0b16a0\">Important disclosures<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore is the Co-Founder of SMB Capital, a proprietary trading desk, and SMB Training, which provides\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/broadcast.smbtraining.com\/smbwebinar1\/?utm_source=Blog-Bella\">trading education<\/a>\u00a0in stocks, options, and futures. Bella is the author of<em>\u00a0One Good Trade<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The PlayBook<\/em>. He welcomes your trading questions at\u00a0mbellafiore@smbcap.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tweet was inspired by an independent trader struggling to balance his personal life with his trading.\u00a0 He reached out for help.\u00a0 He wrote: I want to consult with you about a certain thing that I have not been able to change for two years, since I started trading and it bothers me a lot. 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