First attempts at trading

[Crazyskier]

Is this real money or practise mode?

If it's practise mode then you might be wasting your time. Recommend you move over to real mode, using minimum stakes of course. This should give you an idea as to whether your results are transferrable into the real world.

Indeed. As others have said it's very much a false economy as the practice mode garners FAR MORE matched bets than real money, due to the queue, liquidity and bots jumping in front, etc.

Minimum stakes real world will soon put you right.

CS

[ShaunWhite]

The only experience I can liken it to is when I’ve been revising for exams and my brain has been working over the material while I tried to sleep.

Used to get that when I was into games, couldn't walk down the street without looking for a wire to grind down to reach a ledge (Tony Hawk) or somewhere to stick a trip mine (Duke Nukem)

[Kai]

I had the full Tetris Effect wrecking my sleep at that time as well, that thing where repetitive tasks stick in your brain so much they start seeping into your dreams.

I always wondered if anyone else experienced flashing ladders at bedtime. I still get a bit of that now, after four hours on the golf late on a Sunday night, for example. When I started trading, naturally I was watching and thinking about ladders a great deal. When I went to bed, in that strange lucid state between dreams and wakefulness, I would see endless bloody ladders. The only experience I can liken it to is when I’ve been revising for exams and my brain has been working over the material while I tried to sleep.

Yes, that's just your brain trying to help by problem-solving in the background

I discussed this effect in a bit more detail here : viewtopic.php?p=189079#p189079

[jamesedwards]

I still have stressful dreams about my first job, working on the trollies/tills in a supermarket 30 years ago. Had one only last night.