jagvocate said:
Complete Idiot said:
Do you see how people on this board game markets? To day traders it is not so much investing in good companies as it is about playing the system and gaming money out of it - chart and trend analysis with common patterns that get nicknames predicting this or that.
If you can do that successfully, think about what AI can do? AI managing investments might render all the past indicators invalid as well, new patterns will emerge or perhaps it becomes patternless. But I do think AI managing investments, which has to have been going for a while already, will impact markets somehow.
Computer algorithms have been trading markets for 15+ years now.
Some form of computer triggered automated trading probably is 40+ years on at this point.
At some point it was proven those programs were better than the average human investor, and that also was a long time ago.
I guess it can be debatable what we call "AI", but I was under the belief automated or algorithmic trading of 10+ years ago was based on data fed in by humans, triggers programmed in based on human findings/research/etc.
AI would be something like discovering trends and patterns beyond what human traders key on, maybe that has already happened to but I haven't heard of it but am also admittedly not well versed on the topic.