As in all other walks of professional life, trading too demands extreme discipline. Successful trading should be a boring job where you have to live in isolation & keep repeating your edge over and over again to extract profit.
A smart phone is a perfect hindrance to this regime. Mobile phones these days are more infront of eyes, than being in pockets, and the reason being we enjoy scrolling constant feed of information, noise, and entertainment. Apart from exposing a person from unwanted radiation, today’s smart phones, pose another hurdle to the success of a trader, not only due to its constant notifications, but also from the ever existing possibility of being influenced by the mood of the crowd in friends & social media that might result in a bad trading decision costing money, plain and simple.
It takes the average person about four minutes to recover from any interruption. It’s hard for people to pick up exactly where they were.
Each of this distraction enters our mind with one goal to gain control of our attention and resources. Hence, we are living distracted lives and our ability to focus, create, and accomplish has suffered significantly.

And these distractions wouldn’t go away on their own. It is our responsibility to create a way to live attentive in a world of distraction

Consider implementing few of these unconventional habits:
• Uninstall all gaming and social media apps, instead have one or two, market related alert app
• Alternately, turn off all nonessential notifications (Email, Facebook, Games, etc.) as a default setting
• It’s better to give one task full focus for a few hours, and then go out for a walk, instead of trying to be a multi-tasker