Lack of sleep impairs attention, alertness, concentration, reasoning, judgment, problem solving, reaction time, energy, longevity and increases headaches, pain in general and mental disorders. It can even lead to death.
Insomnia affects approximately 33% of the world’s adult population. Perhaps, amongst traders, this percentage is higher.
In this Article, I will endeavor to explain what happens, as we lose sleep over trade.
On a cellular level, the body repairs and restores itself during deep sleep and a lack of sleep will induce genetic cellular changes of an undesired nature.
In this Article, I would like to concentrate on the effects of a lack of sleep on the brain - the organ we use for trading - however a lack of sleep creates other peripheral problems which too affect a trader :
- Lack of sleep can increase high blood pressure . This exaggerates the effects of stress.