Substance abuse can really affect a trader and it is very true that traders does develops the abusive tendencies due to the positions they may end up finding themselves often but this is why it is very important that as a trader you should get a hobby, something you do for leisure, you should get a healthy way of occupying yourselves after trading so that you do not have to result to substance abuse anytime you are not getting it right with trading or whenever you are having a tough time with trading, you do not have to sit in front of the screen every day and every hour to trader profitably, one of the biggest flex trading does avails trader should be the freedom we have with time but if you are not strategic enough with your trading habit, you may not be able to enjoy that freedom because you are hoping to hop every single move on the market.

This is why it is always important you have so much discipline and trading strategy, because if you do, you will be disciplined enough not to result to substance abuse when you are having it rough with trading and if you have a working strategy you will understand that the strategy does not have to work all the time so if at any point it fails you are hopeful that whenever it works again you will be back in profit without having to worry so much about that which you have lost to the point where you have to do substance, you will understand that all you need is for a strategy that works 70% of the time and you are good, go ahead and do something else away from trading, you could go get a job or another skill that keeps you busy when you are not trading, all of this will help your psychology and mind not to dwell so much on losses when they happen.