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> the stock market is a random walk with a meager trend upwards that doesn't beat inflation + trading costs. That assumes that the efficient-market hypothesis
by matheweis 10y ago
> the stock market is a random walk with a meager trend upwards that doesn't beat inflation + trading costs.
That assumes that the efficient-market hypothesis holds true, but it has yet to be thoroughly proven or disproven... (and funds like Medallion would strongly suggest otherwise for the medium term: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renaissance-s-medallion-fund-became-finance-s-blackest-box https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renai...)
- dandermotj 10y agoIt doesn't assume the Effiecient Market hypothesis - empirical studies of returns support random returns without the imposing a model (non-parametric tests). That's not to say returns are actually random, but in any given time range, it appears to be.
- matheweis 10y agoEMH and random walk theory are intrinsically linked; you can't have one without the other... Or are you saying that movements aren't actually random, and only appear to be?
- dandermotj 10y agoThe latter
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