Absolutely this is so, also a major handicap to pushing yourself trading from home is the absence of male group dynamics. I most other businesses either you knew who the competition wa s and where you stood in relation to them or there was an alpha male (top sales guy etc) whose crown was your target. One of the problems with trading generally/trading from home is there is no readily identifiable competitor to go after.
Remember the SAC Capital, sexual harrassment and female hormones case? "--After being hired at SAC, Tong alleges that Jiang came to him and told him he had a trading method in which his traders must not be too aggressive; that traders must be more effeminate and to do so, he directed Tong to begin taking female hormones." http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=106313&highlight=sac+capital
To get down to brass tacks..... To really get any benefits from Test supplementation.....Moderation is key and the feedback loops won't be an issue. Excercise and "stress or strainful" activities will increase Test naturally. This is key for a multitude of benefits. Bottom line.. Just do something that pushes you beyond your comfort zone!! Diet is NUMBER ONE in anything!!!!!!!! The cleaner the better. Use common sense here. This is the fuel for the "machine." It is SO SO SO often overlooked! Yet it is the simplest and most common sense. (We all know common sense is not that common) A wise bodybuilder axiom is "No amount of juice can turn a Chihuahua into a Pitbull."
the link refers to the original article that was published in a serious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Not surprisingly It does have figures. table 2 age: yrs_trading: testo pg/ml: cortisol pg/ml: annual_income_pounds: 19/38 9 mo/6yrs 67/184 617/4,322 21,770/443,340
No not really, it would take too long. The poster gets what he deserves coming onto a trader forum looking for answers regarding this. GO TO BODYBUILDING.COM if you want correct methods of doing this. Not to say some of you guys on here aren't right, but where the hell are the rest of you getting this from?
Fig. 2. Testosterone and economic return. Boxplot showing average profit and loss (P&L, y axis, £ sterling)made between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on days when subjects had 11:00 a.m. testosterone above (High) and below (Low) their median during the study. Individual data points are shown. Fourteen out of 17 subjects had higher P&L on high testosterone days than on low; the remaining subjects had negligible differences. ref: Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor Coates and Herbert PNAS.2008; 0: 0704025105v1-0