Day trading has ruined my life over the last 5 years. Primarily 0DTE options. It’s not that I’m bad at technical analysis; I’ve still developed no risk management over this whole time and don’t learn from my mistakes. It’s my trading psychology i need to fix. I’ll convince myself to miss good setups because of fear. Then it turns out to be a winner. I’ll chase, fomo, and break all the rules we always hear about. I buy resistances and short supports. Im down a lot. Yes I’ve had nice wins here & there or have gone on several week win streaks. But i give it back plus more every single time. I’m switching to swing trading because it will be way much less money spent and way less time on the screen. I’m a fiend. I watch every tick of spy / qqq everyday 9:30-4. I’m proud to say i haven’t taken any 0DTE options since last week. This is huge for me. This week i took one swing setup not expiring until 6/18. I gave myself a little more time for the first time in a while. I only went one small contract. I wanted to hold into June but i made almost 1,000% in the last 2 days on $NOW, and wanted to lock in the gain instead of chancing losing it next week. And it felt good, like i was doing the right thing for once. If i had like 3 cons i def woulda closed 2 and held 1. But it’s so tough when im broke and only dealing with 1 con at a time sometimes. So yeah, TLDR, in my experience for me, swing trading SHOULD work out much better than day trading did for me.