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RE: Do Raised Testosterone and Cortisol Levels Increase Risky Trading?
Very interesting study. I didn't know that cortisol had a bigger effect on risk-taking than testosterone.
All I'll say is, someone with both high cortisol and high T looks like a trading accident waiting to happen....
Yes it is strange.
One of the things about cortisol though is that having it consistently raised seems to nullify it's effects.
In order for it to do it's thing it needs to go up and then go down - if it is consistently high that has various secondary effects on things (including suppressing other hormones including testosterone).
That is why too much stress is bad and leads to things like depression and ill health.
I was going to add a section on some of it's peculiarities but that was almost getting as long as the rest of the post and it is already super long so I took it out.
I will look at doing a review type post on cortisol at some point in the future because most people think it is universally bad which it isn't - it actually is vital to survival and is only bad when you produce too much.