EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis

Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by blumkvist on Thursday March 05, 2015 @03:47AM (#9149804)

>But the stock market is supposed to be hyper efficient nowadays such that it's practically impossible to outperform it even for the experts

That's not true at all. Maybe in commodities, or foreign exchange or indexing, where algos can trade solely based on prices and public information it is true. But definitely not in individual stock picking. Domain knowledge is king here.

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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by kasey_junk on Thursday March 05, 2015 @07:04AM (#9150191)

I'm not an efficient market hypothesis proponent in the least, but nearly every study, simulation, etc does in fact show that it is nearly impossible to beat the market via stock picking.

Also as an aside, commodities and foreign exchange are places where it is explicitly allowed to have non-public information...

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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by blumkvist on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:35PM (#9152302)

The average retail investor does not have, nor seeks domain knowledge. He's 21-black type of guy. Of course indexing will beat him.

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