Catalogue of failures
(1) What Neurotrader is/was and who was involved Neurotrader was advertised as an education al program that would enable amateur financial market traders to become professionals. Using the technology, traders w ould be able to monitor their biological state for signs of stress and receive personalized real-time feedback . This collection and feedback of biodata was supposed to be integrated with trading softwar e. By using the technology, the trader could know whe ther he or she is in a ‘peak performance state’ versus a ‘sub- optimal (stressed) state ’ and adjust activity accordingly i.e. the trader would open trades while in a sub-optimal state. The device that measured the biodata was called NeuroEdge, It was worn on the trader's fin g er and connected to their computer through Bluetooth. See Neurotrader.com for full details of the technology As well as the innovative technology, the program was unique in that it offered all successful participants the...