Saturday, February 06, 2010

Some Fascinating Findings

* Trading is a learning tool;

* Can you be bored to death? Literally?

* The power of we;

* How Americans feel about governmental regulation of business;

* Thinking can damage performance;

* ADHD and the brain's reward system;

* Medications that help substance abusers also help those with gambling addictions;

* How income is related to health and well-being around the world.
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4 comments:

JimRI said...

While reading on of your references on ScienceDaily site, I followed a link to another one that is relevant to me on reading charts. It is about the way our brain processes visual size data. I have been looking at how the size, scaling and time base of my charts changes my ability to catch the patterns.

The Article: "There's More Than Meets The Eye in Judging The Size Of An Object."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060308212248.htm

Robert said...

I always find your stuff intersting. Thanks for doing so much so often. I follow you on Twitter and have told several friends to read all you write about. My grown son and wife are both AADD. My wife his helped with Celexa with the emotional aspects.
It was an education raising my son.
"No,I am not lazy or crazy", now I can smile as he grew to be a succesful adult.
Just had to say,thanks, you are very generous with your knowledge.

Michele said...

"Why thinking too much can damage your performance in sports"

I noticed that a long time ago while playing the piano. I can be playing some piece just fine, by just reading the notes and playing the music. But the instant I start thinking about what I'm doing instead of just doing it, I start making lots of mistakes.

Is there some implication for trading here?

Jay said...

Michele! I know exactly what you mean, I can go along and suddenly realize that I haven't been thinking about a few notes and then I start to look back at them and wonder if I actually played them right, and of course, most of the time I did, and of course, that stops me from going and I start thinking about current notes and that's it, I stopped, slowed down, started making mistakes!

-nqtraderjay