Totally agree with you. It’s almost impossible to be stress-free while trading or emotion-free, however traders must have to learn how to minimize the influence of emotions on trading activity. It’s really difficult to apply such practices but trading always means learning. I also want to note that this practicing must be applied only on a live account, no demo at all, because demo will never give such emotions as the real account can. So, I want to conclude that no matter how your trading is going bad or good every time trader should learn a lot about trading psychology and find ways to minimizes the affect of stress.
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I do not see trading as stressful - I see it as enjoyable and challenging.
Is playing a sport or game stressful? Well I suppose it is, but a certain level of stress can actually be good for us.
I certainly don’t wake up in the morning thinking ‘my god I’m stressed out with trading’, - however I get the point you are trying to make so will add my two pennies worth.
There are things that beginners do that add to the stress.
Doing dumb ass things like trading five minute charts now THAT is stressful.
And it’s even more stressful when you expect to be profitable with it.
Expecting to make money every day there is another
And looking at four different timeframes that’s another.
Having to ‘wait for confirmation’ - that’s a leading cause of stressful for me.
Or any system that has too many steps in the process.
Taking too large a position is stressful
As is trading too many markets.
And while this may be peculiar to myself trading BOTH long and short is stressful.
New traders want to be in the thick of the action, glued to a screen with all sort of bells, whistles and notifications going off at the same time.
It’s like taking a drive on the M25 at rush hour around the Heathrow turn off - I mean why would you?
Trading can be as close to stress free by eliminating the stressors - quite simple really.
Then there is the other side of the equation - bringing youre life into balance
Maybe your stress is a microcosm of the rest of your life?
If your financial situation is not good to begin with that will only compound the stress in trading.
Maybe you need to work out? Or eat less red meat? Or stop smoking, or drinking.
There is little to enhance the stress of trading than doing it with a hang over.
Are you living with a partner who thinks ‘trading is gambling’ - leading cause of stress
I had a wife like that, in the end I ditched her and chose the trading - something some of us might wanna think about.
Do you have a spiritual belief system? It does not matter what - but if you wake up every morning praising the Lord, Allah, Zoroastra, Lao Tzu, it can be helpful
Gratefulness leads to happiness which leads to money in your pocket - spiritual masters have been telling us this since the dawn of time!!
How silent is your internal dialogue? If u are stressed I bet ya its a cacophony?
Sure meditation can help, but so can going for a walk, visiting nature, or having a warm bath.
No, trading doesnt need to be stressful, we have a choice - but that involves taking a hard look at ourselves and maybe changing a few of the things that are not working.
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It is very difficult to be stress-free in the present modern age. People are running like machines. To be stress-free in trading, you have to manage risk and meditate. If it is possible, it will be very useful.
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Stress is normal when you know your money is involved but try to take it easy, it should not take a toll on your mind.
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Stressful? No. Challenging? For sure!
But I can understand why people felt like trading is stressful because you are putting such amount of funds into trading in hoping to get some profits. If things go wrong, you won’t be getting money back. This can be seen as stressful experience.
Best to constantly practice and get better in both demo and live trading.
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Again, a trader’s resilience to stress is highly dependent on experience. Accordingly, the more experience a trader has, the less stressful he is.
School of pipsology has helped me alot overcome trade-related stress.
So, for those who are dealing with it, please read this:
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I think in many ways it also depends on the person who is trading. Accordingly, the less stress-resistant it is, the greater the likelihood of a negative outcome.
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Seems to me you might qualify as an expert according to Niels Bohr. He says: " *An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field"
Hehehe! If you’re not there yet you might come close 
The scary bit is I have more costly mistakes coming my way! Thanks for your ever candid contributions.
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Completely stress free may be not but if you dont risk what you cant afford to lose, then you could lower the stress at very low levels.
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The only thing I’m expert in is the number of trading mistakes I had over the years.
Hopefully you won’t have to make all the same ones too.
I have an acquaintance who labels himself a crypto expert - yes he even says as much on his website.
He has recently written a book, but from reading some if his web content, the book would be painful reading indeed.
I was shocked that he actually markets himself as an expert - that in itself is a major red flag.
It was the whole Brexit debate that first kicked off the don’t trust experts debate - thank you to Nigel Farage .
Point is, anyone who claims to be an expert should not be touched with one very large barge pole.
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Well for me it can be a YES and a NO.
If you are a manual trader it is definitely a NO. Because in manual trading emotions is always there lot of factor to trigger this thing during manual trading even if you say you are a professional trader there is always a chance that emotions will get in your way and offset your strategy. Also, even if you say that you are willing to risk or lose that money you put in, there is always a chance that it will trigger your emotions and ruin your strategy. It is because you are interacting with the market.
However, if you are using Expert Advisor (EA) it still a NO, but it can lessen the stress drastically but not totally stress-free. EA are emotionless they are programmed to do their algorithm in the market, the reason behind why it still not stress-free is because there is no such thing as perfect EA, every EA has a flaws that you need to consider, there are times you need to cut loss or add fund in your account because the EA suddenly was not able to handle the market price movement. If you are aware of this flaws when using EA there is a chance that you can be stress-free, because when time comes you now know what to do.
That is all based from my experience in manual and using EA. I hope you learn something.
Anyway, if you need expert advisor I can share you mine. I developed and programmed this ea just search in the forum FX Prime EA.
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This is one of the reasons why stress increases among traders coz they risk more than what they can afford to lose, better safe than sorry!
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I feel that it is possible only in theory to get rid of emotional factor while trading. Maney cannot leave a person indifferent, especially the person who decided to link his life with trading forex. The only way to avoid being influenced by emotions is to build some machine which will trade for you. Only in this case can you trade emotionless.
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Sure. It’s impossible to trade stress-free and useless as well. Useless, I mean that if you feel nothing at all while trading then there is no point to trade at all. However it’s kinda hard to find the fine line between stress-free trading and redundant/permanent stress while trading. To my mind, it’s kind of stuff which every new trader has to learn as well as othr fundamental rules such as money and risk management and so on so forth. One can say that we have to turn off our mind while trading, if we do that, then what are our purposes though? I’m sure that this practice is the hardest to be learnt.
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Trading stress-free is only possible when your trading strategy works and you have a proper risk management. By putting a stop loss and target profit and detach yourself from the trade, you are already half way from stress-free. And if your trading strategy can give you more than 70% win rate then I think that you don’t have to worry too much about earning some money for your living. So work on your trading strategy first.
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Agreed! Forex trading is never easy if you are a beginner. Consistence practice and making demo trades will make your brain functions in that way. Consequently you will have the habit of managing the trades.
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I feel like I would stress less if I had more money to lose. To a rich person a $100 loss is nothing, but to most of us that’s a big deal.
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Trading is the most stressful industry. All trades without excluding earlier or later catch up with stress and burnout. Nerves surrender, mistakes go one after another, depozit merge and in such a situation, even an adult man wants to hand and cry. Especially now, when there is a new financial crisis in the world.
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You can trade stress free only after years of experience and understanding of your strategy. Same way professional in other fields work stress free
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