The 'Quants' In The 'Robots' – Deprogram Yourself

The ‘Quants’ In The ‘Robots’ – Deprogram Yourself by Notes From The Rabbit Hole

The title of this article is not an assumption that you, astute reader, are little more than a robot following the direct and implied commands of other robots when trying to make logical sense of the state of modern financial markets.  Personally, I have found that I need to stay on a path of post-deprogramming maintenance in order to stay right with a complex market backdrop.

On an inward-looking basis, we as investors and traders are faulty humans going up against robots (Ref. Rise of the Quantitative Robots) that are much smarter than we are with numbers, with data mining and with extrapolation.  What...