Sleep and trading: how does rest affect your decisions?

Traders who chase Asian-session trades on four hours of sleep make worse calls than they realise. Tiredness shows up as impatience, revenge trading and skipped checks.

Sleep and trading: how does rest affect your decisions? — trading sessions clock diagram
The four forex trading sessions across a 24-hour day

Be honest:

  • how many hours you sleep on trading days
  • the mistake you most make when tired
  • how you schedule trading around sleep
Sleep and trading: how does rest affect your decisions? — risk-reward diagram
A risk-reward ratio of 1 to 2

The psychology threads are full of losses that were really sleep debt.

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