Emotions and emotion regulation have been considered as major factors in coping with stress in social as well as occupational situations. One of the most stressful labor sectors is FOREX market in which traders, especially retail traders experience vast amounts of social and occupational stress day to day. This survey study aimed to determine the states and levels of stress as well as emotional processing among Iranian FOREX retail traders. 216 volunteer participants partook in the study and administered SRRS and EPS-25. Results revealed that almost all participants experienced severe levels of stress and gained high scores in malfunctioning of emotions. In addition, significant positive relations found between stress and Signs of Unprocessed Emotion (.84, p<.04), Unregulated Emotion (.73, p<.04), Avoidance (.73, p<.001), Improvised emotional Experience (.75, p<.02), and Total Emotional Processing Status (.63, p<.04). It appears that in addition to being stressful, FOREX market have brought emotional malfunctioning for its labor force which shall be considered. There would be a great need to feature causal studies to identify the underlying mechanisms and provide these labor sector’s employees with efficient coping/ adaptation strategies.
