Tape speed is slowing a bit so let’s talk about one of the least discussed matters of trading, how best to fuel your body while trading. Breakfast is easy—less is more, coffee. It will keep you sharp through the morning session without bogging you down. Lunch is a bit more complicated but critical and noobs always make fatal errors during this meal.
Foremost and weather permitting, lunch should be taken outside. Your eyes need time to look at something other than the screens 12 inches from your face. This will help slow the inevitable vision decay anyone committed to this vocation is certain to endure.
When it comes to meal size, again think less. Want to be in a painful coma when trading picks up at 1:30pm eastern? Eat a bacon cheeseburger with some fries and a coke. You will be an amorphous bag of fluid melting into you’re a/c cooled chair while I have eyes like laser beams and reflexes like an apex predator. Here are 3 steps toward a more powerful breakfast.
Step 1: Eat half the meal size you normally would. Stay hungry.
Step 2: Your meal should be low carb, high fat, and high protein. Usually a salad works. The darker the greens the better and be sure to toss in some chicken and/or beans. You may also want to eat a can of beans. If you have trouble digesting beans then chew a few bean-o tablets before your first bite. Boom, gastro solutions from your boy. Pro tip—rinse that disgusting can goop off your beans. If you want them saucy, add some grape seed oil and hot sauce.
Step 3: Drink water, nothing else. If you want to be fancy and have the mouth feel of a soda then drink Pellegrino or Perrier. I won’t look down my nose if you add a little lemon. If you must have a sweet drink, try a drop or two of stevia.
On the go? Chipotle bowl no rice with the stir-fry veggies. If possible, try to find and support a local Mexican eatery instead and order fajitas. Be sure to slap the tortilla shells onto the ground in disgust.
In an even bigger hurry? Medical marching pills. Buy a bottle of arginine (sp?) from your local GNC drug dealers (not recommended). Pre-workout is effective too.
Do you have a go-to lunch? Let me know in the comments below and I will judge you incessantly.
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Raul – I don’t trade for a living, but here is the lunch I’ve eaten EVERY workday since 2005: A boneless/skinless chicken breast , baked & thinly sliced, topped with 1 cup of cooked low glycemic basmati rice, along with a healthy splash of El Pato canned salsa and a dusting of a random Penzey’s spice blend (usually Northwoods Fire). I never tire of this.
Btw, here’s that rice. I get it at my local Asian market.
http://www.amazon.com/Laxmi-Basmati-Lower-Glycemic-Diabetics/dp/B0077S75NI
nice work on the long-standing routine
chipotle burrito, no rice.
grilled chicken and broccoli
homemade chili. light on the beans.
Solid slow burn energy
chipotle burrito – chicken, no rice, black beans, veggies
I drink iced green tea all day – keeps me hydrated AND it tastes good
Green tea kills the male libido
Just stopped out my QLD and BAC
Copious amounts of iced coffee throughout the day as well.
Usually with a touch of half and half. Sometimes I’ll cheat and throw in one pack of cane sugar to smooth out the bitter.
That video was fucking awesome. lol
I see a lack of fruits and veggies in your diets. If chewing them is too much work, get a vitamix to do the chewing for you and drink up. My favorite breakfast: frozen fruits (lots) chia and flax seeds, honey, bee pollen, egg white and some coconut in the vitamix, and it will keep you going for hours! And of course espresso.
I eat massive bowls of spinach with lemon juice and flax oil on the reg. It’s my insurance policy.
I have the vitamix 750. My pwo is spinach/kale/banana/chia seed/protein powder. Vitamix is awesome no doubt.
Blendtek 4LYFE
I eat steak tartare. Funny how some of the fire-breathing Chinese Dragons on this site do not seem capable of distinguishing between secular and cyclical. They each have distinct characteristics. You won’t find that by merely reading Jesse Livermore; a little more study is required.
I never read livermore, I can’t get behind anything that’s too popular
Son. I eat a kale salad w strawburries, chicken, black beans, feta, walnuts, and craisins like 4/5 days..I play for keeps. Hope all’s well 3
gains!
Billy brings the A-game er’day. good form sir