'Trust Your Gut' Might Actually Be Profitable Advice on Wall Street, Study Says - The New York Times - 0 views
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What attributes make for a successful trader? Is it comprehensive knowledge of an industry? The ability to read the markets? Luck?Or might it be something subtler and seemingly unrelated — namely, an awareness of one’s own heartbeat?
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Mr. Coates set out to try to identify whether “gut feelings” were merely the stuff of myth, or something real and measurable.
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And among the traders, more accurate heartbeat awareness was correlated with profitability. That is, the better a trader was at sensing his own heart rate, the more successful he was at high-frequency trading. Advertisement Continue reading the main story What is more, the longer an employee of the hedge fund had been working as a trader, the more accurate he was at counting his heart rate.
