[thetradingdoctor]

Hi James,

Thank you for stepping up and asking for help and guidance. If you don't mind sharing in total anonymity ( except for your screen name), please tell me something about your living situation, your work schedule and your trading schedule? This will really help me understand better what is going on with you.

My concern, like others on this list, is that you might be trying to push yourself in too many directions at one time. Often when this happens, our brain and body become very confused, don't know what to do and shut down ( so as to do nothing). I see this in certain types of behaviors related to depression, attention-deficit or obsessive-compulsive traits.

It is possible that you are just too busy to do any one thing and do it so well that you actuallly enjoy it. Why is it that you do not get home until 10PM? How can you possibly expect to be functional at anything ( let alone get up at 5:30 or 6 in the morning, when you go to bed at 3 AM?

Everyone needs adequate rest, down time, thinking time and time to be human BE-ings rather than human DO-ings.

Please let me hear from you about what is going on, James and thanks!


Also, James---I adore you, but I am totally concerned about the amount of caffeine you are taking in. Caffeine in moderation actually has beneficial effects, but if you are using it as a crutch to stay alert, you are risking dependence on caffeine and possible deleterious effects on your health as you get older. I realize you are young now, and probably lots of people in your office are living on coffee and maybe cigarettes and maybe other substances. Please do what you can to begin detoxing your physical system. Your body and your trading will love you for it in the years to come.

If anyone on this thread has questions about diet, exercise and how to get and stay strong and healthy so as to be alive to trade for many years, please do not hesitate to ask me?

Thanks!

Doctor Janice