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That's what the hedgefund does where Taleb is involved in afaik

Skimmed through it, do you need a masters in statistics to get all the technical aspects in the book? I am STEM educated but didn't major in statistics

Why is the population in the NE declining?

Why would Norway/Switzerland/Ireland prefer a trade deal with one isolated country to one they already have with twenty others on their doorstep?

When I was a daytrader I used the orderbook and time and sales more than charts.

Answer to OP, yes, this can be done easily without hardly any impact, if you have some skills.

bonds: are there actually cheap non-institutional electronic trading platforms available for bonds? stocks: mature market which means there is efficient cheap access possible. also lots of different types of stocks, etfs, .. . Downside, lots of algos on the shorter time frames You can't...

if with HFT you simply mean multiple automated trades per day, then I would say: Find a setup where you can learn trading live with the lowest amount of $ and time risk. So I believe brokers like Oanda have API's, where you simply can get data and post trades (if you know programming) according...

"risk is inversely proportional to trade frequency" well, actually, if you do trades with the same (or scaled down) risk/reward, but you do more of them in the same time frame, then risk per time frame actually goes down obviously.

In live mode, if you are waiting on the bid/offer to be filled, you are usually one of the last to go and also usually when you actually do not want to be filled.

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The SPY trades very close to a random walk though :) you can test that with calculating the Hurst exponent and various other statistical tests. E.g. I recently found out that recently the SPY has a Hurst exponent of .48, where .5 is random.

In addition to the useful ideas above, another viewpoint is that of suppose you are trading a random process, where in the next time step the product has a 50% chance of going up or down (not dissimilar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_options_pricing_model). Obviously (I am sure it's...

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Not enough. Since I am not too smart my advantage has to come from the working hard.

Care for explaining that math? I don't see it. It all depends in my opinion unless I am not seeing something you are.

Even if factor investing has been working for the past decades, who says it will continue to work? If everybody is piling in, like many funds seem to do now, then the effect should go away common sense says.

No way, almost completely "fair" now.

Isn't there an arbitrage here? Just do the opposite, right, you will win then even if volatility goes up?

I am interested by it, but haven't come to it yet. It seems to have it's own rules. How does e.g. TA work, if at all, especially if you look at an esoteric pair?