It is so important to automate as much of the mundane tasks in trading to keep the fire burning. This is particularly true for a part-time trader like me. I use some programming to help me look out for setups and I use spreadsheets heavily to help me compute my entries, exits and margin requirements. Can you imagine I wake up at 5 am in the morning to do these mentally-taxing computations and laboriously go through the charts one by one and squint my eyes to look for setups?
