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When financial traders are struggling to sleep, stock-market returns go down – new research

  • Written by Antonios Siganos, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Glasgow
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Do financial traders make better returns in the stock market when they are well rested? You would intuitively assume that a trader’s level of sleep would affect their decision making.

Several studies have certainly shown that sleep affects the ability of people to make decisions in general. Though admittedly based on...