Comment by WalterBright

Comment by WalterBright 3 days ago

3 replies

I have a friend who retired, and decided to go into day trading. He spent hours each day glued to the trading portal, making trades. After a year, he ruefully admitted that he'd have made significantly more money if he'd simply done nothing.

jpcom 3 days ago

Sometimes I ask GPT to run Bayesian analyses on varying hypotheses. I just did that for the several parent comments to see if we could get some reasons as to "why day trading doesn't work." Perhaps this will amuse you as well: https://chatgpt.com/share/67888cf4-1aa4-8011-b46b-77e5e9da12...

  • semi-extrinsic 3 days ago

    Is there any reason to believe the probabilities involved in those computations are not just coming straight out of rand()?