Screen time is a position

Watching charts feels like work. Often it is the opposite: exposure creating the urge to act.

What more screen time actually does

• Increases trade count — reliably, in almost everyone.
• Increases the share of impulse entries, because boredom and opportunity look identical at hour four.
• Decreases the quality of the exits, because you are watching every wiggle.

The structure that works

• Define the window. A fixed session where you are allowed to act. Outside it, alerts only.
• Set alerts, not surveillance. Your levels are known in advance. Let the platform watch.
• Hard trade cap. Two or three per day. When you hit it, the screen goes off.

Then check the arithmetic honestly: the overtrading cost calculator turns screen time into commission, spread and impulse losses — the number that screen time actually costs you.