Rogue Hormones,Trading, and Courage

Rogue Hormones,Trading, and Courage:

An Economist article, Trader's Brains:  Rogue Hormones, warns us that rogue traders — those who, caught up in the euphoria of successful market trading, allow their normally risk-averse stances and strategies to be overcome — might not be so uncharacteristic of high-volume, high-value, high-reward traders in general.  The research of Cambridge neuroscientist John Coates

suggests that hormones drive investment decisions to a far greater extent than...