Testosterone and Risky Trades....

[DianaR 10]

I read an article a few weeks back that talked about risk takers, speculation, traders, and testosterone.

 

The author mused that some of what we have seen with deregulation and the fleecing of consumers through various manipulations of the markets could be due to fellows with high levels of testosterone and few, if any, controls or consequences for their behavior.

 

This vision of testing people who want to work the stock market, Forex, and any other form of legalized gambling with far reaching consequences for people other than themselves, being tested not for drugs, but for unacceptable high levels of testosterone.

 

What do you think? After seeing what has happened with the worlds' economy, should this form of testing be instituted along side drug testing?

[Bearbull 10]

VSA experts would definitely be in a better position to answer that , as they possess an uncanny ability to gauge the footprints of the ELEPHANTS(PROFESSIONAL MONEY) and know all about market manipulation. They were even able to forecast against all analyst opinion at the time, the fall of oil price from ~$140 to ~$65 or thereabouts via their most potent signal, THE END OF THE RISING MARKET, it is even posted on YOUTUBE, (expect for those occasions when it does not pan out) whether they made money out of that or not is a different question:)

 

Incidentally elephants do go through the "Musth" period

Musth (or, alternatively spelled, must) is a periodic condition in bull elephants, characterized by a thick tar-like secretion called temporin from the temporal ducts on the sides of the head and, far more notably, by highly aggressive behaviour. It is accompanied by a significant rise in reproductive hormones - testosterone levels in an elephant in musth can be as much as 60 times greater than in the same elephant at other times;)