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

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...