Quote Originally Posted by Memphis View Post
I wouldn't read too much into his out of office. I set the exact same message for anyone that trusts me to set it.


If they go on to commit horrendous crimes that's their look out.

The hubbub is just starting to pick up after NZZ Online’s report yesterday on a University of St. Gallen study that shows stock market traders display similarities to certified psychopaths. The study, authored by MBA students Pascal Scherrer and Thomas Noll, compares decisions made by 27 equity, derivative and forex traders in a computer simulation against an existing study of 24 psychopaths in high-security hospitals in Germany. Not only do the traders match their counterparts, but, as Der Speigel succinctly puts it, the “stockbrokers’ behavior is more reckless and manipulative than that of psychopaths.”
The traders, according to Noll, were fixated on gaining more than their competitors in the computer simulation – to the extent that they “spent a lot of energy trying to damage their opponents.” He compared the behavior to bashing a neighbor’s fancy car with a baseball bat in order to make your own car the nicest in the neighborhood.

New Study, Old News: Stock Traders Are Psychopaths - Forbes


They've been doing these studies for decades. A couple of years after I started trading there was a study published in the Financial Times that said 80% of traders taking a test for psychopathy exceeded the medical definition of a psychopath. Eveybody reacted by saying ha ha ha, not me obviously, I wonder who they could be talking about but looking back I would say 80% was on the money. Definitely as far as fairly serious mental disorders go I would say 80% is a pretty accurate number.