My sleep schedule as a semis trader living in the Bay: 5:30am: Jolted awake for the 8:30 ET economic data print like my apartment is on fire. 6:30am: Trade the NY open in the dark, haven’t blinked yet 9:00am: Collapse face-first & take a 1-2 hour “power nap” 11:00am: resurrect like zombie, unsure what day or year it is. 12:00pm: Start to rebalance and put hedges on, trade the close, eat my first meal standing up 2:00pm: Rip the rarri down 280 to remember the sun exists 4:55pm: Back at the desk, hydrating like an Olympic athlete, doped up like a Russian one 5:00pm: Watch the Tokyo open. Get fucking murdered trading a 500 year old textile mill pivoting to make glass fibers for PCBs. 6:00pm: Taipei open. TSMC does not care that I’m tired. Trading the spread between PCBs, Glass Fiber. 10:30pm: Stay up just to confirm Korean is doing something biblically retarded, then sleep in two installments like a Victorian peasant I probably cut like 3 years off my lifespan doing this.
