心理學發現許多紀律的研究。學者從幾個方面探討人類之紀律與行為，如學業成績、罪行、健康行為等。我們發現年齡和性別是兩個最常用來伴隨紀律研究之變數。關於性別年齡與紀律之研究結果都未有一致性，但大多數研究結果是」女孩子比男孩子比較有紀律」和」紀律在童年已發現而會一生穩定」。
在金融世界，我們發現只有少數學者探討交易紀律與績效，所以隨著心理學科之研究我們想探討性別與年齡在期貨交易市場對交易者之紀律影響。
本研究發現了一些在心理學和金融方面之紀律相似和差異性。我們的實證結果發現在紀律的研究年齡有扮演重要的角色，而性別沒有。男人和女人的紀律水準都沒有太大的差異。年齡比較大的交易者擁有比較低的紀律。

Numerous studies of self-discipline are found in psychology. Scholars investigate self-discipline and human behavior from several aspects, such as academic performances, crime, health behavior, and etc. However, age and gender have been two most popular variables that accompany the research of self-discipline. Results from studies of age and gender related to self-discipline are not consistent but most of them claim that girls are more self-disciplined than boys and self-control is readily apparently early in childhood and tents to be stable across lifetime.
In finance area, few reviews about discipline relate to trader performances and behaviors. Therefore, according to the viewpoints from the psychological area, we would like to investigate whether gender and age play an important role in future trading discipline.
We find several different implementations of discipline in psychology and finance. Our empirical results indicate that age plays role of the trader's discipline behavior while gender doesn't. No significant differences are shown between men and women in their discipline level. The higher the trader's age is, the lower the discipline is.

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