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Dutch device measures your stress level and emotions when day trading

If you are among the millions of day traders out there, here is a device that could help you. Researcher Geert Christiaansen, working for the Dutch electronics firm and ABN AMRO, Philips, has a new gadget that will measure you stress level while you are day trading.

How does it work? Users wear a bracelet called the Emobracelet that senses stress and makes an accompanying light signal. The signal changes from yellow to red depending on the person's stress levels. The emotions being measured are fear and greed. These two emotions often color a person's judgment to make rational decisions. At this stage of development, a prototype of the device is being made.

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