What music do you listen to when you're trading?

[Nick1984 10]

When I'm trading I like to have music on. I've always been like that. I need something which is pretty lively or aggressive so I put on things such as:

 

Rage against the machine

Nine Inch Nails

Soulfly

David Bowie

Tomahawk

 

If I've made my target for the day I relax and put on something soothing such as:

 

Air

St Germaine

Sergio Mendes

Depeche Mode (ok not very relaxing but I love em)

Grandmaster Flash (legend)

 

So what do you listen to when you trade?

[walterw 10]

contemporary easy listening... mayor scales... promotes the good mood... puts you on the positive zone...

 

so far hearing this italian soul fusion.... souldavid | amorestereo cheers Walter.

[TinGull 10]

I listen to Switchfoot, Anoushka Shankar, and Michael Franti (protest rock!)

[Soultrader 12]

I prefer Jazz or any lounge music. I love instrumentals.

[torero 10]

The sound of silence. The only way to focus and stay attentive. The problem with music is that it always carries some emotions, even classical music. Just wrong thinking in approaching the market objectively.

[rock 10]

Silence can have an opposite effect on me and drive me nuts! I'm the type of guy who has a difficult time sitting still so that may have something to do with it.

[brownsfan019 17]

I have to have music or something on, mainly for background noise. Sitting here in complete silence would drive me insane.

 

I have Sirius and with the service you get an smaller online version of their service. It's great - I just use a non-trading computer to stream the music and there's a bunch of stations to chose from. I personally like Octane - not heavy metal, more modern alternative. It just helps keep the blood flowing.

[januson 10]

Absolute Silenzio - aka the sweet music of silence :p

[Don4 10]

A little CCR, Bob Seger and most of the hair bands from the 80's. Guess im stuck in the past .

[Nick1984 10]

Apparently Mozart makes you smarter! That may be an idea hehe.

[waveslider 10]

I'm listening to Tortoise, and a band called the Bad Plus. Instrumental post-jazz stuff - both are coming to Vancouver for the jazzzz fest - I'm there..!

Instrumental and complex, real instruments, not drum machines.. if anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them.

[wsam29 10]

over 2900 songs for my iPod/iTunes.

 

Sometimes I put it on party shuffle and let it play what ever.

 

There is not set routine for me, sometimes I have music on while trading, sometimes its' off during a trade. It's on when I'm not trading and off sometimes when I'm not trading as well.

 

To name a few bands/artists:

 

Linkin Park

Toby Keith

Green Day

Finger Eleven

Dolores O'riordan

Coldplay

Weezer

Three Days Grace

Sarah McLachlan

 

Pretty much anything with a drum beat and guitars. But I love my music, could not get through a single day without hearing something.

[epiktetos 10]

Theme from The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Ennio_Morricone-The_Good%2C_The_Bad_And_The_Ugly.ogg

[rock 10]

any classical?

[rock 10]

any classical?

[rock 10]

um what just happened?

[rock 10]

Classical..mostly piano and guitar. I'm teaching myself piano and will start guitar.

 

trance...although i don't know where to get the good stuff anymore

 

Ocean's 12 soundtrack relaxes me

Yea, I'm a weirdo.

 

run dmc .."im in the house yall! im in the house yall!"

 

Some tracks from mob movies but mostly from the Godfather. It brings some memories. btw, I'm not affiliated with mobsters.

 

 

Who's house?!?

[Guest cooter]

Obscure 70s/80s Can-Con stuff like April Wine, Trooper, Chilliwack, Saga, Streetheart, and Triumph.

[Jakew 10]

JS Bach is the man (and baroque music is proven to have beneficial impact on mind and nerves). It has a rythm and a flow that is exactly to my liking. Also jazz, especially great trumpet players; Davis and Stanko. By the way, there are traders who not only listen to music at work but also watch movies - J.Carter (of Mastering the Trade fame) mentions Gladiator as his usual visual support:).

[Jakew 10]

ps. I do watch RATM gigs and other hard hitting bands on weekends, for full balance, not without a few cans of lager.

[rock 10]

Gladiator? how so?

 

Listening to Jack Johnson. My daughter likes his voice. Prob since he did the Curious George song.

[ryounkin 10]

I start the day with Kenny Rogers singing "The Gambler": "Every hand is a winner and every hand is a loser and the best you can hope for is to die in your sleep."

 

The I switch to an eclectic mix of baroque chamber music, smooth jazz, with some gregorian chant thrown in when trading is hairy.

 

Buck

[Jakew 10]

Rock, his trading is highly automated once an entry is made, and also before a possible entry he hears, yes hears, from his computers. So apparently he doesn't watch the screens as much as others, especially midday. More in the book.

[Minis Trader 10]

Anything that has a beat to it. I dont really hear the words but the beat keeps me up what the trading day starts to slow down.

[Nick1984 10]

ps. I do watch RATM gigs and other hard hitting bands on weekends, for full balance, not without a few cans of lager.

 

LoL RATM before delving into the most capitalist of pursuits. Keeps the ol conscience clean!