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Re:I might be a complete failure (after 8 years of work) by bbers on Sunday June 27, 2010 @06:36PM (#1466408)
To beat the market you HAVE to predict what trades others will make in the future. It is easy to use math to make it appear to be a numbers game but that is just abstraction. The reality is that people buy and sell stocks for 1000s of different reasons.
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Re:I might be a complete failure (after 8 years of work) by chasingsparks on Sunday June 27, 2010 @09:26PM (#1466745)
I use much less math than your average quant. I prefer simulations with a lot of agents. Think Game of Life, not partial differential equations.
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