There are more and more people these days dabbling with online trading as a result of greater access to online trading platforms . This can often be as a sideline to the day job or as a new way of seeking to earn a living. Indeed, there are increasingly more and more people trading financial instruments as their main daily activity as a result of the restructuring within the finance sector following the financial crisis. Online subscriptions to news wire services as well as financial tv channels can help to keep you as up to date as the professional trader in the great trading floors in the City of London.
So, when does financial trading become a problem? See my article on financial trading and gambling addiction.
Put simply, your trading is problematical if it is causing damage to your quality of life. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, currently in its fifth iteration (DSM-5), provides a diagnoses list to reflect the whole person, not separating mental disorders from physical and general medical conditions. DSM-5, released in 2013, placed “Gambling Disorder” in “Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders”, under “Non-Substance-Related Disorders”.