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EP65: How to Minimize Eye Strain


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In this episode of Truth About FX, Walter gives some juicy tips on how to minimize eye strain from looking at computers, laptops, and other gadgets for too long. He points out that while having a strong “dedication” towards monitoring the charts is a good sign, having a healthy body is still the best way to achieve success.
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In This Episode:

00:52 – intense trading

02:17 – blue light

03:25 – health hack

05:18 – prescription glasses
Tweetables:

Eat well, re-hydrate, and do some eye exercise. [Click To Tweet].

Wear gaming glasses to minimize the blue light.  [Click To Tweet].

Use some softwares to help adjust your gadgets’ lighting.  [Click To Tweet].
Announcer: Sometimes, forex trading is a wild and wooly place to be. That’s why Hugh is here, to post your questions to Walter, the naked forex guy. Hugh’s got questions and Walter’s got the answers. Here at the Truth About FX Podcast.
Hugh: Hi, Walter. My eyes get tired after a long trading session, do you have any ways to minimize eye strain?
Walter: Yeah. First thing is it sounds like you are probably trading the lower time frames. If you are trading the lower time frames, you probably have a background in sports or martial arts or something because you are able to focus, maybe had a meditation background. That’s great!
You probably eat well, you probably exercise. All these things are going to help you if you are doing these intense trading sessions but in terms of your eyes — I’ll put a link below this podcast down in the shownotes .
You can get these gaming glasses that I use. I am not even on the computer that much. Today, I think I am going to be on the computer between 90 minutes and two-hours. That is going to be all my computer time today. The rest of the day, I will be out doing something.
I am trying to minimize that but what you would do is you would wear these gaming glasses. I do not know but have you seen these, Hugh. These gaming glasses?
Hugh: Yeah. I actually bought a pair recently, too.
Walter: Yeah, they are awesome. It cuts out the light. I mean, it is a great way to do this. I think it cuts the blue light or something. The other thing that you can do is I’ve got these software that is really a good idea if you spend a lot of time in the computer.
I’ll link up in the shownotes too here, to this podcast episode, so you can download it. I put it on my phone, my tablet, my computer. For whatever reason, I do not think it works on iPhone. I think it has to change something in the iPhone and iPhone would not let you do this.
Hugh: The thing is with the iPhone, it is already built into the system.
Walter: Is that what it is? Really?
Hugh: It is in one of the settings, yeah.
Walter: So, what this does is this software changes as the sun goes down. For example, one of the big worries about being on the computer late at night is you get too much blue light and that keeps you awake and and keeps you stimulated.
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Truth About FXBy Walter Peters (FXJake) and Hugh Kimura (Trading Heroes)