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Re:Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you by onebaddude on Monday December 02, 2013 @11:38AM (#6834666)
>"If you think of the market as a "random walk" (a well defined mathematical concept)"

Random walk with a drift is how the trend is described.

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Re:Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you by tiatia on Monday December 02, 2013 @01:44PM (#6835522)
Great. If you know a little tiny bit about finance then you know that stock prices are not a random walk (with drift or without). A random walk would give you a standard distribution. In reality you are dealing with a fat tail distribution.
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