Testosterone and Wall Street

April 15, 2008

An explanation for the Street’s sometimes irrational exuberance?

In a new study he reports that traders who start the workday with high testosterone levels make more money on that day than their low-testosterone colleagues do. A hot day on the market sends their levels of the natural steroid up even more, Coates says; under the influence of their own hormones, they start to take bigger risks in hopes of bigger rewards.



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