This question is directed towards Ken.
Ken, I live in the Pacific Std time zone, which is 3 hours behind the market (East coast) time zones. Which means that I have to get up around 5:30AM to get ready for the trading day.

Hi - I used to live in Hawaii, til a few years ago, and it was a challenge, since I had to go to sleep at 6-7 pm and wake up at 2-3 am each day. Now that I'm in Colorado, I find it much easier, since I can get up at 6-7 am as usual. That's one advantage that swing trading has over intraday, is that you can use limit entry/exit orders that automatically execute, so if your particular time zone (I'm thinking of folks in Japan, the UK etc) coincides with having the US market open be at an inconvenient time, one can still at least swing trade, without having to watch charts tick by tick during the open.

Ken