Actually.. some academics do writer papers on just that. It's just the ones that publish garbage draw the ire of traders. 

Quote from Mike805:
Could you imagine a world where academic ideas actually worked in the markets??
It is a self defeating principle - if there ever was an academically tested, working and accepted solution - everyone would eventually find out that solution and the game would change again, and again, and again.... that's the entire point, academics do not account for irrationality and we make money off it. You cannot solve an equation to produce and "irrationality quotient".
Maybe that's why academics are so inept at trading markets - they do not believe something should be in a constant state of change.
Mike
