{"id":47091,"date":"2016-07-25T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/trading\/play-bloomberg-tradebook-trader-brain-exercise\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T16:56:32","slug":"play-bloomberg-tradebook-trader-brain-exercise","status":"publish","type":[3762],"link":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/trading\/play-bloomberg-tradebook-trader-brain-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Play the Bloomberg Tradebook Trader Brain Exercise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"bbg-row-container\">\n    <style>section[data-anchor=row-6a0509ea22421]::before {\n\t\t\t\tbackground-color: #eeeeee;\n\t\t\t}<\/style>\n    <section class=\"bbg-row bg--custom-color  bg--eeeeee text--black bbg-row--full-bg-bleed\" data-anchor='row-6a0509ea22421'>\n        \n        \n        <div\n            class=\"bbg-row--content\"\n                    >\n            \n            <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-2\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    \n<\/div><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-8 bbg-column--valign-bottom\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    <p>    <ul class=\"bbg-categories_list\">\n                    <li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/professional\/insights\/category\/trading\/\" rel=\"category tag\">\n                    Trading\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<div\n    class=\"bbg-spacer\"\n        style=\"height: 24px !important\"\n    >\n<\/div>    <h1 class=\"bbg-metadata bbg-metadata--title\">Why Play the Bloomberg Tradebook Trader Brain Exercise?<\/h1>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div  class=\"bbg-row-container\">\n    <section class=\"bbg-row  text--black row-padding--top-compact row-padding--bottom-none bbg-row--full-bg-bleed\" data-anchor='row-6a0509ea28e4f'>\n        \n        \n        <div\n            class=\"bbg-row--content\"\n                    >\n            \n            <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-2\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    \n<\/div><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-8\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-spacer\"\n        style=\"height: 40px !important\"\n    >\n<\/div>    <p class=\"bbg-metadata bbg-metadata--date\">July 25, 2016<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n<div  class=\"bbg-row-container\">\n    <section class=\"bbg-row  text--black row-padding--top-none bbg-row--full-bg-bleed\" data-anchor='row-6a0509ea2b0dc'>\n        \n        \n        <div\n            class=\"bbg-row--content\"\n                    >\n            \n            <p><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-2\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    \n<\/div><div\n    class=\"bbg-column bbg-column--width-8\"\n    style=\"\"\n    >\n    <p><div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p>On July 6th, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finextra.com\/newsarticle\/29138\/bloomberg-tradebook-unveils-trader-brain-exercise-tool?utm_medium=dailynewsletter&amp;utm_source=2016-7-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg Tradebook released the Trader Brain Exercise<\/a>. Developed in collaboration with The ReThink Group, the \u201cgame\u201d essentially warms up the parts of the brain involved in pattern recognition and prediction. A leading decision neuroscientist had this to say about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>The Trader Brain Exercise is the first in what promises to become a unique suite of financial training tools that are designed based on solid scientific analysis of trading skill. To use it is akin to performing the proven exercises that enhance a piano player, a diver, a navy seal, or a pilot. Trading desks will be able to train their members into becoming better traders without risking the company\u2019s money. No longer will trading skill need to be considered \u201cinnate\u201d or something that can only be learned on the job. It can be strengthened through exercising.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the science behind the Bloomberg Tradebook Trader Brain Exercise by delving into its background below. (White Paper excerpt republished from <a href=\"https:\/\/traderbrainexercise.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TraderBrainExercise.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<h2>Exploring the Nature of Trader Intuition<\/h2>\n<p>In 2010 <em>The Journal of Finance<\/em> published a startling study by Cal Tech researchers Bruguier, Quartz and Bossaerts. Through brain and behavioral experiments, they demonstrated how social cognition,<em>rather than mathematical and logical reasoning<\/em>, underlies the otherwise little-understood X-factor in traders. Those legendary portfolio managers and traders who seem to have a special talent for predicting markets unconsciously rely on a dimension of thought known alternately as theory of mind, cognitive empathy or mentalizing. This social thinking style appears to be the power behind that exceptional pattern recognition ability that enables great traders to infer meaning from the signals relayed through the dance of price action.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers first ran an experiment to create virtual market data that included intentional buying and selling (which they somewhat unfortunately termed as \u201cpresence of insiders\u201d). Next, they performed brain scans to identify which parts of the brain were active when individuals subsequently viewed the development of price action in this virtual market. In other words, the researchers took pictures of active human brains as they were thinking about price movement and identified which regions and structures were most involved in contemplating the price movement. Last they ran a third experiment which tested for a correlation in the ability to predict price direction with scores on three traditional tests of social cognition and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The findings in this complex experimental design include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Subjects were quiet successful (46-78%) at forecasting the direction of price changes.<\/li>\n<li>Correct forecasts correlate with two social cognition tests with the strongest evidence being for the classic Heider-Simmel test discussed below and used as a basis for the Bloomberg Tradebook Trader Brain Exercise.<\/li>\n<li>The mathematics test results showed no correlation with the ability to predict price.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\n<div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<h3>The Classic Heider-Simmel Experiment of 1944<\/h3>\n<p>More than 70 years after Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel published their now classic study of perception and geographical shapes, their idea remains the most widely referenced investigation of the thinking style known as \u201ctheory of mind\u201d. Using only geometric shapes, they determined that almost 100 percent of subjects watching such shapes move impute human meaning and a story to the movements. Even when their shape video played in reverse, all but two of the studies\u2019 subjects reported a detailed story being played out. Or, to use the original language \u201cinterpreted the picture as action of animated beings, chiefly of persons\u201d. In essence, Heider and Simmel successfully demonstrated that humans tend to perceive the meaning of others\u2019 intentions even without seeing their faces or associated emotional expressions.<\/p>\n<p>Traders who consistently and correctly predict others\u2019 future needs to buy or sell through observing the behavior of changing numerical symbols reveal the same type of social thinking. In fact, if we think about it, we can see that all a trader or PM actually cares about is \u201cknowing\u201d who will pay more tomorrow for something they are buying today. Price prediction, no matter what form of analysis a market participant might favor, might look like a numbers game but is in fact a people game.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div\n    class=\"bbg-spacer bbg-spacer--md\"\n    >\n<\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"wpb_content_element bbg-single-image align-center\">\n    <figure class=\"bbg-single-image__figure\" style=\"max-width:100%\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/10\/imported\/tradebook\/sites\/6\/2016\/07\/TraderBrain_CSL2_pic-221x300.jpg\" class=\"bbg-single-image__image attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"TraderBrain_CSL2_pic-221x300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/10\/imported\/tradebook\/sites\/6\/2016\/07\/TraderBrain_CSL2_pic-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/image\/v1\/resize?width=auto&amp;type=webp&amp;url=https:\/\/assets.bbhub.io\/professional\/sites\/10\/imported\/tradebook\/sites\/6\/2016\/07\/TraderBrain_CSL2_pic-221x300.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/>\n        \n            <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div\n    class=\"bbg-spacer bbg-spacer--md\"\n    >\n<\/div><div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<h3>Conscious or Unconscious Mental Processing?<\/h3>\n<p>As academics have become better able to explore brain activity through brain images and other advanced techniques, it\u2019s become widely accepted that most of our mental processing occurs below the level of consciousness. The neuroscientist David Eagleman, whose PBS series, <em>The Brain<\/em> (2015) explores his brain research, stated in his book, <em>Incognito<\/em> that \u201cmost of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control. \u2026 The conscious you is the smallest bit of what\u2019s transpiring in your brain.\u201d He continued,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>\u201cBrains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. It doesn\u2019t matter whether conscious is involved in the decision making. And most of the time, it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<p>Hence, traders for the most part don\u2019t truly recognize consciously that they are predicting other traders\u2019 future perceptions when they predict price. They may realize that they talk about the market in terms of people with statements like \u201cwho is pounding this bid?\u201d or \u201cthey are coming for them now\u201d but the majority of traders rather blithely accept the widespread misperception that their price predictions stem from some sort of probabilistic thinking. Although they often recognize the similarities between poker and trading, generally the human prediction aspect remains unnoticed or at least severely underappreciated.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<div\n\tclass=\"bb-wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t<h3>Expert Knowledge, Unconscious Pattern Recognition and Trading Intuition<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s also relatively fashionable to discount the value of unconscious pattern recognition or felt knowledge. Behavioral finance research has convinced us to doubt the type of expert knowledge which we commonly label as intuition. In contrast however, leading scholars in judgment and decision making say things like: \u201cintuitive thinking underlies the most advanced thinking\u201d (Reyna, 2012).<\/p>\n<p>Research points to evidence that more sophisticated thinkers rely on the gist or essence of a situation rather than the literal, verbatim recounting of the factors to make choices. They cull the essence of the questions at hand rather than itemize and prioritize each possible outcome. As such this is what the exercise is aimed at, the basic question of which way price might move as opposed to a more detailed analysis of all of the factors that may be influencing price movement. An expert trader who listens for and parses their internal voice actually accesses their years of watching the dance of price.<\/p>\n<h3>The Bottom Line<\/h3>\n<p>In summary, engaging with the Bloomberg Tradebook Trader Exercise can reasonably be expected to tap into a trader\u2019s the most useful neuronal \u201cmuscles\u201d. Consciously working with the actual skill underlying performance \u2013 social cognition \u2013 should in effect warm-up the trader\u2019s brain in a way that makes it more facile and effective in anticipating the likely development of price action. We hope you enjoy this exercise and we believe that with practice, it will benefit your trading.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Bruguier, Antoine J., Steven R. Quartz, and Peter Bossaerts. \u201cExploring the nature of \u201ctrader intuition\u201d.\u201d\u00a0<em>The Journal of Finance<\/em>\u00a065.5 (2010): 1703-1723.<\/p>\n<p>Eagleman, David.\u00a0<em>Incognito<\/em>. Robert Laffont, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Heider, Fritz, and Marianne Simmel. \u201cAn experimental study of apparent behavior.\u201d\u00a0<em>The American Journal of Psychology<\/em>\u00a057.2 (1944): 243-259.Eagleman, 2011.<em> Incognito, The Secret Lives of the Brain,<\/em>Pantheon Books.<\/p>\n<p>Reyna, Valerie F. \u201cA new intuitionism: Meaning, memory, and development in fuzzy-trace theory.\u201d\u00a0<em>Judgment and Decision Making<\/em>\u00a07.3 (2012): 332.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Brain with David Eagleman.\u201d PBS. October-November 2015. 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