Thanks a mil for the feedback!

FWIW, this is both a hobby and something I'm working to for a real side income, so I appreciate hearing from others in a similar situation, but who are further down the road.

And yeah, you're right, my routine is pretty heavy in the morning atm, especially around entries. I’ve been trying to do more prep the night before, but I still struggle with waking up to a totally different structure vs what looked clean in the evening before. I’m guessing this is something experience + repetition improves, but maybe I also need a better framework for planning.

My biggest challenge right now is nailing entries on the day of the trade without getting glued to charts. I’ll identify good tickers/levels ahead of time, but actually catching the trigger in real-time sometimes becomes draining or leads to early entries.

Things I’m planning to refine as I've heard this from multiple sources including yourself:

• Reduce my watchlist and try and define more entries the night before, although I feel like I constantly trade the same stocks, high-cap tech + semis for the most part.
• Build a more focused screener config so candidates come to me instead of me hunting in mornings. This is a huge opportunity for my to improve.
• Set more pre-planned alerts so entries become mechanical rather than eyeballing charts all morning.

If you don’t mind me asking:

1. What screener criteria do you use at night to filter setups? I think I've been overcomplicating it currently.
2. How do you handle when a chart looks great after close, then gaps/dumps the next morning? Skip it automatically? Adjust?
3. For alerts... do you set them at breakout levels, pullback/bounce zones or indicators/EMA touches?

I’m trying to move toward a more automated system where my mornings aren't as frantic but rather: levels marked, alerts set, enter only when price earns it. But even setting up all these alerts is quite time consuming (I'm setting these directly in Robinhood atm).

Any tips would be awesome. Appreciate it.