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tomjen3 on Nov 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I made $500k with machine learning and high fr...

You know, that is a really good argument.

Except two things:

1) He didn't lose money, he made 500k.

2) If this worked reliably, you would be out of a job.

cheeseprocedure on Nov 6, 2012 [–]

Er... it doesn't work reliably, and by definition, cannot work reliably. If market inefficiencies exist to be exploited, then someone is ultimately getting the short end of every stick.

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