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

2019-09-08 Thread Donna Y
I hope everyone can forgive my arch commentary while I struggled to figure out why EMH is wrong—perhaps I was > > "not even wrong ”? > In financial markets, analysts observe something called volatility clustering > in which periods of low

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

2019-09-08 Thread Donna Y
BIG DATA Raul said: >> > >> That said, for practical reasons (even ignoring regulations) it's not > >> possible to extract all meaning from historical data. The meaning of life? >>> “Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people, avoid eating >>> fat, read

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

2019-09-08 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
> Unless you really do want a way to talk about inconsistencies—then you might try Paraconsistent Logic. The idea of paraconsistency is that coherence is possible even without consistency. Put another way, a paraconsistent logician can say that a theory is inconsistent without meaning that the

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

2019-09-08 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
> > Try again. > > How about we just skip this part and get to the part where you say > what you were thinking of? Good idea, they are, I am afraid, only la-la regulations against OCO orders. Yet, just for the sake of the argument, let us imagine that there were actual regulations against OCO

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

2019-09-08 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
Hi Bob, Many thanks for your feedback. Raul confirmed that, alas, there is no related J code. P.S. I hope newbies enjoy your videos as much as I do; ironically for someone that likes to read and write tacit code, I really learn by looking at examples (and I would be totally lost without an