Fatigue, Delirium and Time Distortion
And not in a good way.
There are some amazing charts I want to post (the “correction” to the upside may be subsiding), a couple of soapboxes I’ve got in the corner I need to climb onto, and some Real Estate “news” I wanna set straight. However…
I went to work at the (ICK!) regular job Saturday. Graveyard guy calls in sick (again- he did this 2 weeks ago). I’m stuck working thru the night (and missed a helluva birthday party, I’m told). One of our day people is sick Sunday, so I go home, catch a 2-hr nap, then go back and work till 9pm Sunday. Go home, sleep a few hours, back at 0730 this morning to work the Cancer Center.
All in all, I worked 34 hours out of 52, and a stretch of 26 out of 30 within that.
Which brings me to the Time Distortion. I noticed today that I could glance at the clock, work 15 minutes, then glance at the clock again, and only 5 minutes may have passed. And one time an entire hour passed in under 10 minutes. It’s amazing what happens when we mess with those little internal chronographs we take for granted.
A friend tells me that reminds him of his entire college career…
LP said,
March 26, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
High school was most boring for me but college was fun. That went by too fast. I do wish I graduated 2 years prior. I could have gotten a ton of options at Ariba or some bozo company. Even if I was an idiot, I could have cashed out enough options for a nice pen or something.
Dinosaur Trader said,
March 27, 2007 @ 7:41 am
Time to size up in a couple of positions and leave that job behind, eh?
Earnings season is right around the corner…
And I’ve noticed the effects of time distortion during trading disasters. If I’m in a bad position and it’s late in the day, time seems to fly by so that my window of opportunity to rebound closes that much quicker.
Will said,
March 27, 2007 @ 8:24 am
LP - college was something of a waste of time for me, as well. Married, working multiple jobs, etc. Too busy being old to ever take the time to be young. Now, for that red convertible…
DT - you know how weekends like this make us want SO badly to drain the savings, get cash advances on all the credit cards and a second mortgage on the house, send it all to the broker, buy one huge buttload of out-of-the-money options, and go for broke… when I get too eager to do something like that (like I am right now), I’ve learned to place myself in “trading jail” until the urge fades. I just keep chanting “stay patient, your time will come” (then curse a bit)
One day I’ll get to learn what it’s like to have the delimma every Friday of “what we’re gonna do this weekend”…
I agree with you on the time distortion while trading– also, seems like the moment you enter a promising positions, the seconds stretch to hours as you anticipate that move…