Hormones, chemical messengers, play many roles in the body. Researchers are still exploring and discovering new (to the researchers) uses. One such is reported in the October 11 issue of The New York Post:
One of the world’s richest and most secretive hedge funds is telling its traders to swallow female hormones to trade better, a lawsuit claims….
The firm, a powerful $10 billion hedge fund, is run by superstar trader Steven A. Cohen, one of Wall Street’s most prolific players who regularly takes home $500 million a year.
It was alleged that one of Cohen’s top bosses at SAC chided traders for being too aggressive – and that they must use a soft feminine touch to score in their trading pitches.
One junior trader claimed that the boss, Ping Jiang, a key producer at the big hedge fund, demanded that the young trader take female hormone pills to help erase his aggressive male ways so he could be more effeminate in his trading style….
(Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention.)