For most of the people, full time job is a non-negotiable part of life. To sustain an existence whether meager or lavish, often needs the dedication of most of our waking hours. There are Expenses such as rent, a mortgage, utilities, food and transportation which are obligations that must be satisfied. While there are exceptions, meeting these challenges typically requires securing full-time employment, Monday through Friday.

That said, Trading has never been simple, and only experts make money consistently. To become an expert in trading, one must learn trading first and then practice hard, beat their emotions and stick to some discipline. Time and finance is required for this. However, not all beginners have a substantial capital that will let them stay unemployed, as they need to pay for their expenses, and they cannot withstand initial losses for several years.

Hence combining job and trading is so vital for many. Some stable income allows paying one’s bills and accumulating skills gradually. Combining job and trading is a not easy task as one’s time which they can devote to trading is rather limited.

Below are some tips that can be followed that will help tolerating time shortage.

Prepare and Stick to the trading plan

Sticking to the trading plan is important to become a part-time forex trader.

Your main aim with trading while having a full-time job is to supplement your income. With a need to create a second income on the volatile trading arena, sticking to the stuff that works will bring you confidence, and the money.

Alerts while trading

Setting an alert is possible in various popular trading terminals and mobile apps.

Other than standard alerts, traders can also make use of different expert advisors and indicators that have their own embedded alerts, which means they also notify the trader of a trading signal appearing by the specified algorithm hence they can decide on whether to open a position or not.

Make use of free time and the weekends wisely

Most of the part-time traders find that the weekends are the perfect times to build out a trading plan. And after that they can follow the trading plan in the week so that they have the minimum amount of daily work to do.

Trading at the available session

Active currencies like the yen, the Australian dollar, the New Zealand dollar are better in the Asian session to trade. Traders should always study the peculiarities of the currencies and influencing factors.

Aim at middle-term and long-term trading

But following middle term and long term strategies (to hold the positions opened for a few weeks or even months) can be better for traders who work full time. Since Traders in this case don’t have to monitor the market all the time and watch the situation every few minutes. There, trading can also be partially automated with setting stop-loss and take-profit.

Just monitoring the market once a day will be enough to stay informed about the market. Elsewhere, Stop-losses and take-profits are big-sized there, the timeframes to trade start form D1.

A trading journal

However, mistakes will happen to some degree. To combat the problem, it is important to write as many notes possible about the trading experience. Thus the trader can keep their information handy. Trading journal makes sure that the trader is always learning.

Expert Advisors

Example : MetaTrader 4/MetaTrader5  platforms are widely used in trading forex. To write a bot for this platform, the trader will need the MQL4/MQL5 programming language. Just writing a bot is not enough. The trader should assess the statistics of its trading, optimize parameters, and customize it according to constantly changing market conditions whenever time is available.

Final words :

To combine employment and trading is important for most of the traders. Due to the stable income from the job, the trader will not be in rush to earn from trading and he can develop trading skills gradually: one might need much more than a year to become a pro. Depending on the employment conditions, the trader should follow a trading way that will facilitate trading  in a lack of free time.

Give a second thought on this article, If you are working full time and finding way to trade. Open account and start trading.