As my office normally doubles as a living room I’ve been thinking about how to Feng Shui the place. And with a resumption in trading activities coming up soon I’ve been thinking about how to Feng Shui that into the bargain. I’m not too bothered about going into immense detail, but some basics would be good.

Essentially I’ve identified three  major aspects of this that I think deserve attention; computer and furniture arrangement, the amount of stuff on the computer in general and the clutter on one’s trading screen. To address the first one here’s a nice video clip of a Russian lady explaining that we want the computer to be as from us as possible so as to cut down on the electromagnetic radiation. This is one thing I’m not doing right now, though I did get a quiet one when I realised that the hum of the old one was annoying:

With regard to general computer feng shuing I figure that the simplest thing is to remove all unused programs and make sure that the desktop is as free from stuff as possible. I’ve not been too good with the former (this is about to change) but with the latter I’ve not been two bad. There are just two icons on my desktop with most of the programs I use being pinned to the start menu.

With regard to the trading screen there are some traders who have a mass of indicators up there which would certainly confuse the hell out of me. So I figure that if you can’t trade with price bars alone then the maximum should be a single moving average on candlesticks. For an intuitive, visual trader these things can have value, just as long as they don’t overdo it of course and Greg Capra gives a good explanation in his Intra-day Trading Tactics.