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Now, if only they add a provision that enables wily coders to earn bounties on finding flaws in the assumptions...
by etherael 17y ago
Now, if only they add a provision that enables wily coders to earn bounties on finding flaws in the assumptions...
- AngryParsley 17y agoIn almost all cases where you have a prediction, you can put your money where your mouth is. If you find a flaw in the original program, you can make better predictions than it. Then you can invest in things that correlate with the correctness of your prediction (or you could just use Intrade).
- gaius 17y agoThis is why program trading code is such a closely guarded secret, any why this was such a big deal http://blogs.reuters.com/archive/tag/sergey-aleynikov/ http://blogs.reuters.com/archive/tag/sergey-aleynikov/
- olefoo 17y agoIf you can regularly find such errors and build a reputation, you could certainly sell access to your work output, since spotting errors and misstatements will have a direct effect on the value of the securities in question.