Video game skills

[Jim]

Hi

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Gaming helps traders score big-time

By Tracey Logan
BBC Go Digital presenter 

Video game skills and a good poker face  B)  online are becoming essential job qualifications in the financial markets, with recruitment drives assessing potential star traders in online gaming exams. 

"It is Unlikely that we would hire someone who didn't show good proficiency at a GameBoy or online poker or similar video-type game where hand-to-eye coordination is important" she said.

Gaming helps traders score big-time

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"You've obviously got to be cool under pressure" said one trader, "and mentally alert. But I wouldn't have thought training people on GameBoys would help you down there."

But those game skills, developed despite parental fears for their offspring's social development, are exactly what is required for a lucrative future on the digital trading floor.

[Lady Vashj]

Hand-eye coordination? What does that have to do with poker? I'd think it has much more to do with actual sports.

[jahcs]

Poker is more for probability and awareness of betting styles and body language. Of course body language is limited with online poker...

I would think more action oriented video games would help had eye coordination. Back in High School I read a study that folks who played video games became better helicopter pilots in shorter periods of time. I could understand that as long as the video game player was not a video game junkie.

[Jim]

Hand-eye coordination?  What does that have to do with poker?  I'd think it has much more to do with actual sports.
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I'm sure they meant Video games...Altho if you cheat at Poker & deal off the bottom of the deck, then Hand-eye coordination would play into it :P

A good Poker face would benifit a Stock trader who Lies alot :ph34r:

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