Two reasons: (1) These are two different problems. Human mathematicians tend to be good at both, but there's no reason to believe (yet) that this generaliza

Two reasons: (1) These are two different problems. Human mathematicians tend to be good at both, but there's no reason to believe (yet) that this generalization can be achieved with software. (2) Trading has second order effects, no matter how good your algorithm is, if you apply it at any kind of scale the market reacts to it and you are left with something that doesn't work or cause large losses in the worst case.