Beating impulse trading / overtrading

[Doomberg]

One of my biggest downfalls in my time day trading has been impulse trading for the sake of it. How did you stamp this out? I've started using a separate SB account and playing about with £2 a point when i feel the urge to take trades that are not A+. Or is that just totally the wrong mindset in the 1st place?

How do / did you deal with it?

 

[justtrader]

One of my biggest downfalls in my time day trading has been impulse trading for the sake of it. How did you stamp this out? I've started using a separate SB account and playing about with £2 a point when i feel the urge to take trades that are not A+. Or is that just totally the wrong mindset in the 1st place?

How do / did you deal with it?

I think the biggest cause of impluse trading is too much chart time.
Its very hard to just sit there watching a price move and not a part of it, the way I have learnt to cope with this, is to set set my alerts then turn off my charts and do anything else but look at charts, read the mail ,watch a movie, read t2w, anything but chart watch, your alarm will alert you.
Even 2 pound trades can become 23 pound a point trades I have learnt from bitter experience.
Its not screen time that's the problem its chart time.