If you trade around a job, how do you cope with the moves you miss?

Many members trade alongside a full-time job, which means the market moves during hours when they cannot watch the screen. Missed moves are a common source of frustration, because a trade that would have worked may be seen only after the fact. The question is how you accept those moves, and whether your plan leaves room for them.

Members who trade around work usually plan for the hours they can watch, and they treat the rest as a separate decision. A plan that needs constant attention will tend to break, while one built around fixed windows and written rules can hold up. Fixed windows also make it easier to say no to a move outside them, because the rule was made before the move appeared. Learn gathers the beginner lessons, which is a useful starting point for building a routine that fits a working day.

We would like to hear how you cope:

• How do you plan trades around a job that keeps you from the screen?
• What do you do with a move you saw after the fact and could have traded?
• Do you use alerts, pending orders or a fixed window to trade?
• What would you tell someone who feels they are missing out on every move?

Please share your own approach and reasoning, not calls for others to copy. Posts that promise a direction or sell signals will be removed.