How Music Affects Trading [CHOOSE MY PLAYLIST!]
I have recently been allowed to use headphones/airpods during certain times of day on my equity options desk at Jane Street. This made me think: I was curious to see if there might be a similar effect with music for myself as there is with stocks in general - that is, stocks go up generally when the weather is good and people are in a good mood.
This past week, I sorted my PnL over the months by different types of music I listen to while trading. I listen mainly to pop music, rap music, classical music, and Kpop. I observed that classical music improved my PnL by over 30% compared to rap music. My friend Andrew, on the other hand, says that he has done best in days where he listens to lo-fi. My head of desk never listens to music while on trading, but I know he listens to heavy metal at the gym before a day of trading. I wonder if that helps set the mood for a day of work.
What type of music do you enjoy listening to when trading? Or do you just value talking to other people? I would love some recommendations on music: I'll put the most upvoted songs on my playlist next Monday.
Very difficult to draw conclusions from this. Data points here are correlations but hardly causations.
That said, I enjoy hearing Trap to work
Yeah, I definitely agree that there is very clearly no causation here. That being said, I am hoping to find certain playlists that may be able to help 'clear' my mind and I believe that this may help me keep a clear mind even better after making a bad trade.
Try trance. Stuff from anjunabeats (recommend Ben bohmer,tinlicker,yotto) & (group therapy sessions) or admin van bueuren (state of trance sessions)
Will try out, thanks!
Found a good playlist named "Hedge funders" on Spotify. Techno but nothing too hard to bear for hours.
Sounds interesting!
symphonies, choral polyphonies, opera, and classical music in general while trading
If working late and feeling sleepy then trance and EDM
but there is no causal effect
yeah agreed zero effect, just wanted to have some new music recs to keep my mind fresh at work
Pop punk & emo for me - when modeling
I have an earnings playlist with a song for each large position, where there lyrics have something related to the name
I’m completely superstitious about it and it’s the dumbest thing I do
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I'm not a trader, still in school. Try Synthwave
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