Quote from FerdinandAlx:
Yes, philosophy can be whimsical. It's a broad subject and that's why I told to emphasize logic and philosophy of science. Logic is not whimsical, in fact an alternative to whimsicality presupposes logic. Law is something you need to understand once you start a hedgefund.
Programming is a useful skill. The way it is applied in statistical analysis is not usefull though. If you want to impress me, answer the following question: how does statistical analysis succesfully surmount the problem of induction?
As to legal issues, this is what lawyers are for.
Statistical analysis is a pre-requisite to build a theoretical and reasonable basis for your trades. By that measure, induction is actually the process you use to build your statistical analysis. Induction doesn't lead to the theory, you come up with the theory, then deduce via induction, and it is not whether you can redact the trading algorithm yourself more than it is that you can test your theory on old data that when normalized is applicable to future pricing problems and trading decisions.
Statistical analysis is required to build a foundation for your induction. Induction by itself is too broad. Without statistical analysis, your most basic conclusions by your induction are meaningless because you still need to test your theories, and that's only accomplished through statistical analyses and processes that enforce your induction. It's not that statistical analysis surmounts the problem of induction more than that it is required to properly analyze data. No matter what you do to base your decisions on, hopefully it has something to do with judgements on timing, pricing, and other endogenous variables directly related to your trading decisions.
I will just assume random things like the phases of the moon are not part of your induction and reasonable basis. Rationally, all prices are governed by expectations, and the only way to analyze these assumptions is with statistics.
Incidentally, proflogic is a very good friend of mine, and definitely has a very logical trading method.