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It was a typical working day at a major bank in Boston. That was, until two researchers turned up – armed with an alarming abundance of medical equipment.
Andrew Lo and Dmitry Repin, from the nearby MIT Sloan School of Management, had convinced the bank to allow them to experiment on 10 of their finest traders. After all, at an institution where the average transaction involved a cool $3-5m (about £2.4-4m), what could possibly go wrong?
The traders, at their desks, were hooked up to bulky sensors which tracked what was going on in their bodies, like their heart rate and how much they were sweating. The bankers were split into two groups: the highly experienced ones and the newer recruits. Each was monitored as they went about their usual tasks: making trades and reacting to market events..
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