Quote from: Awesomus Maximus on April 23, 2018, 06:40:00 AM

I have never done conventional market trading, but these numbers explain a lot about how different crypto trading is.
If nothing else, you have to be glued to your computer screen 5.3 times longer (all around the clock), and the amount of stress can be enormous.

A few years ago, that used to plague me. I lost a lot of sleep staring at BTC charts (and setting trading alarms). Screw all that noise. I just trade the 1-day and above time frames now, which isn't much different from swing trading the stock markets and indices.

Quote from: Safebit.io on April 23, 2018, 07:11:46 AM

That's the ridiculous part about the old economy - it's not 24/7. How can you have a non-24/7 in a globalized, bot-controlled financial market? Makes no sense to me.

There is off-hours trading, so some traditional markets run 24/7. Forex runs 24/7. But it's true that in traditional markets like stocks and most commodities, you need to account for gaps. Lots of day traders close positions at the end of the week to avoid weekend shenanigans and surprise Monday spikes.