Device Protects Day Traders From Emotional Trading

Philips Electronics, a Netherlands-based company, has come up with a device designed to protect day traders from emotionally based trading decisions. The Rationalizer measures your galvanic skin response and lets you know when you are under stress. An online trader can then take a "time-out, wind down and re-consider their actions," according to the company. This may have come too late for us, but at least future generations won't have to live through the horror of angry day trading.

Comments

This is a great change

[royallthefourth]

Now all day traders will be making rational, informed decisions instead.

Obvious:

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over. "

Does it come with black hair dye?

[entrice]

"Users wear a device called the EmoBracelet that senses stress and makes an accompanying lighted bowl, or EmoBowl, change color and flicker from yellow to red as emotions become more intense." Something makes me think this is being targetted towards a younger market.

Re:I've known a lot of day traders. . .

[tverbeek]

Yeah, if they're behaving irrationally, expecting them to respond rationally to a device telling them that seems... optimistic. "Calm down!? Don't f*^&ing tell me to calm down!"