20 Jan
2025
20 Jan
'25
1:43 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 06:03:49PM +0000, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 1/19/25 09:39, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk
wrote:
That, of course, includes the bold assumption that the stock market is
entirely rational. As the saying goes: Bold strategy, that.
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
What happened to them? They're everywhere in
academic papers. They've
become an easy way to get published. Nowadays they make up so many bio-
inspired variations of these algorithms that I think that they are going
to run out of animal names to assign to them. Most of these publications
are thrash, but there are a handful of genuine applications.
I recall reading that behavior predictions made by genetic algorithms
would enable one to corner the US stock market. Of course, that was
before 2008.