Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation (1900)
If asset prices in the short term show an identifiable pattern, won’t speculators find this pattern and exploit it, thereby eliminating it?
Are financial markets inherently unpredictable? Let’s suppose they aren’t. Let’s suppose there are patterns that may be discerned by humans or computers, and acted upon. What would that do to th…
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