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Surely whatever strategy you discover (assuming there is even one to be discovered) would stop working as soon as lots of people started using it.

• king07828 9y ago
  If it stopped working, then it would not meet the criterion of successfully trading. A successful algorithm would likely need a way to tolerate increased usage of the algorithm, much like how successful human traders do so currently.
  • dopamean 9y ago
    This sounds impossible. And I don't mean "really hard and will take a long time" impossible but "actually this literally cannot be done" impossible.
    • king07828 9y ago
      If computers can successfully play go better than humans (alphago), then eventually computers should be able to successfully trade stocks better than humans as well