Of course the future is about automated trading systems.
Whether it is poker, trading or the real estate market - the better the information the more likely an increase in equity.
The cold hard facts are that a human can only track so many independent variables in real time. A computer can keep track of almost infinite variables and do it in the millisecond time frame.
I read somewhere that "Success in the markets is not about instinct, divine inspiration or spontaneous intellectual combustion. It is about intelligent data processing, sound method and the management of risk and resource that is both effective and adaptive to change."
Given the universal availability of data, massively parallel processing, intelligent agents such as genetically optimized neural networks and other smart data mining technologies - how could a man hope to compete with a system, properly programmed by a smart human, that uses all of that?
cheers
Jack
