Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-08-11 Thread Donna Y
Outperforming the market is next to impossible if EMH holds—might as well invest in passively managed vehicles. ??? That assumes the price is right—crashes, bubbles, corrections, overvalued and undervalued equities say otherwise. The 1987 crash drove prices to irrational low levels OR The cra

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-08-11 Thread Devon McCormick
Or you could just invest in index funds. On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 6:17 PM Raul Miller wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 7:22 PM Jose Mario Quintana > wrote: > > :D I was even quoting from the paper. > > You get a gold star. > > But how can I talk about what the paper says with you, when you are >

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-08-11 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 7:22 PM Jose Mario Quintana wrote: > :D I was even quoting from the paper. You get a gold star. But how can I talk about what the paper says with you, when you are not acknowledging that it was said? > "the paper relied on no such idea" and "it's also not proposing 'a tr

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-08-11 Thread Donna Y
Yes--he market is a self-organizing process. Donna Y dy...@sympatico.ca > On Aug 11, 2019, at 4:11 PM, Jose Mario Quintana > wrote: > > one reason why markets are hard to beat is because > they are supposed to be evolving in a similar way that biological systems > are supposed to be evolving

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-08-11 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
Yes, I have heard versions of stories about automated trading strategies perturbing the markets and producing questionable price movements. One was that, allegedly, often the Berkshire Hathaway price was pushed up when Anne Hathaway was making news and the suspicion was that news sniffing trading

[Jchat] hi res j logo(s)?

2019-08-11 Thread Michal Wallace
Are there any higher resolution versions of the J logo lying around? I'm setting up a youtube channel for my J videos... -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm