According to the firm, investors with blood type A and AB were more likely to pursue stable investment strategies and were relatively successful in investments, while those with blood type of O and B made more aggressive investments and often lost money.

Out of 394 investors with blood type A, 184 (47 percent) made profit in stock investment, as did 79 out of 173 investors with blood type AB (46 percent). Some 40.7 percent of investors with blood type B and 39 percent of those with blood type O made profit from stock investment.

But 15 percent of investors with blood type A and 13 percent with type AB lost more than half their principal, while 20 percent with type B and 18 percent with type O lost big. Among investors with blood type A and AB, 14 percent and 12 percent made a fortune at an investment return rate of more than 50 percent. But a mere 8 percent and 9 percent among investors with blood type B and O experienced such successful investment.

Type O and B investors were more speculatively inclined, according to the poll. Asked whether they invested on credit over the past year, 55 percent with type O and 49 percent with type B answered that they did, but only 37 percent with type A and 43 percent with type AB said yes. Some 47 percent of investors with blood type B invested in only one item, but only 32 percent of those with blood type AB put all their eggs in one basket.

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