Simply put, if anyone has managed to do it, you aren't likely to hear about it. That said, I know of two: First was a math prof that would play the markets eve

Simply put, if anyone has managed to do it, you aren't likely to hear about it. That said, I know of two: First was a math prof that would play the markets every couple years when he needed a little extra cash. Second was someone who had isolated patterns of market intervention and figured out how to profit from them. But that's more like insider trading than beating the market algorithmically.