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YOUR BRAIN MAY KNOW THE FUTURE OF THE STOCK MARKET

Your pulse rate is increasing, and the palms of your hands are sweating. A large part of your investment fund is at stake, and you must make the crucial decision quickly. Buy or sell? You follow the data, track the most recent stock market developments, and finally make your decision, placing a large portion of your money on one single stock.

Only hours later, you can see it was a mistake, and you watch your fortune being swallowed by the stock market’s apparently unpredictable fluctuations.

It is a bitter pill to swallow, but what is worse is that the correct decision, the call that would have made you extremely rich, was in your brain all along, according to new research from Stanford University that delved deep into the heads and brains of hopeful investors.

Armed with this new knowledge, then, could these scientists now offer a method for accessing your brain’s hidden wisdom about stock market

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