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Sat Sep 20 18:43:28 UTC 2014 <moriarty> whenever someone makes a comment like last programming language, it's a giveaway sign they have no formal education in CS
Sat Sep 20 18:43:07 UTC 2014 <moriarty> that's the fallacy of homeschooling
Sat Sep 20 18:42:56 UTC 2014 <moriarty> heh
Sat Sep 20 18:41:30 UTC 2014 <moriarty> institutional flows are of magnitudes higher, for instance
Sat Sep 20 18:41:22 UTC 2014 <moriarty> you can get some sort of clue based on the amount of money in the system, and the flow rate
Sat Sep 20 18:41:07 UTC 2014 <moriarty> we know we shouldn't do it, but we do it anyway :) and if you can partition the market into the emotional plays, and the bot plays, you can then expect to tailor your response accordingly
Sat Sep 20 18:40:34 UTC 2014 <moriarty> fear drives the sells at the lows
Sat Sep 20 18:40:29 UTC 2014 <moriarty> greed drives the buys at the highs
Sat Sep 20 18:40:21 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> !up moriarty
Sat Sep 20 18:40:01 UTC 2014 <moriarty> without any training, the basic market participant buys at the high and sells at the low, despite being cognisant of the mantra to the contrary
Sat Sep 20 18:39:36 UTC 2014 <moriarty> the constraints of the market is at its most basic, everybody is driven by greed and fear
Sat Sep 20 18:38:17 UTC 2014 <moriarty> you may act individually, but your response to feedback from the market constraints that individuality, and as a whole, the market acts very mechanistically, well, if you can pin it down of course
Sat Sep 20 18:37:42 UTC 2014 <moriarty> same it is with anything else, even in the markets
Sat Sep 20 18:37:32 UTC 2014 <moriarty> they may amble along seemingly individualistic paths but the feedback arising from interaction with other criss-crossing of paths result in a very predictable wave
Sat Sep 20 18:37:04 UTC 2014 <moriarty> think crowd behaviour as they exit a museum
Sat Sep 20 18:36:53 UTC 2014 <moriarty> individual automatons act in ways that coherently reinforce into a distinct pattern
Sat Sep 20 18:36:31 UTC 2014 <moriarty> well, emergence
Sat Sep 20 18:35:55 UTC 2014 <moriarty> asciilifeform, how's that?
Sat Sep 20 18:35:48 UTC 2014 <moriarty> that's what i did when i tried to profit off bitcoin
Sat Sep 20 18:35:47 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> moriarty: fundamentally broken model here though