Predicting the stock market with neural activity

Many have tried to predict changes in stock prices, but attempts have mostly failed. However, new evidence suggests there is a way – hidden in your neural activity. Investing is a notoriously risky business, with stock prices changing day-to-day and difficult to predict. However, a team from Stanford University (CA, USA) has reported the results of two experiments suggesting that neuroimaging can be used to foreshadow next-day stock price changes. In the first experiment, functional MRI of the Nucleus Accumbens (NAcc) during the participants’ assessment of stock prices from 2015 was able to forecast stock price direction, while imaging of...