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To: TobagoJack who wrote (125407)	11/28/2016 6:44:36 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217734

Self-determination is a great thing. Too many people Tiger-mother their children - with fathers doing too much of it too. Regarding << for now she commented recently, "who the hay uses such math?">> I believe the people who operate supersonic computers that run flash crashes for fun and profit are highly adept at mathematics, big data, deep data and computer processes that can add up 0 to a trillion in a few milliseconds faster than competing computers can do, and can propagate the output to buy and sell markets faster by a few milliseconds than their competitors who are also highly adept at such functions. As in evolutionary processes, it's survival of the fittest. Winner takes all. Regular humans who think they can do trading can enjoy luck for many trades, only to be ruined on the next. After a dozen successful trades, they might think they really have it figured out, but with a million monkeys choosing stocks, 500,000 can get one trade right, 250,000 = 2 trades, 125,000 = 3 trades, 62,000 = 4 trades, 30,000 = 5 trades, 15,000 = 6 trades, 7,000 = 7 trades and already those monkeys will be feeling intelligent and fairly profitable. 3,500 = 8, 1,700 = 9, 800 = 10, 400 = 12, 200 = lucky 13 and those 13 times lucky monkeys will be swaggering around in pretty nice cars, houses and telling people how astute they are. 100 can get 14 right, 50 can get 15 right, 25 = 16, 12 = 17, 6 = 18, 3 = 19 and 1 lucky monkey will get 20 trades in a row on the money and will be lauded as Wall Street King of technical analysis, and if doubling up funds each time starting with $10,000 would be up to so much money and so many zeroes I would need a calculator to do it in a timely way. But I guess that the top "what the hay" mathematicians would be hunting said monkeys with no bag limit. Mqurice