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An experiment that shows that even if you know the future in a day, you won’t have much success

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American economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Through the book Black Swan published just before the subprime mortgage crisis,

“We can look at the effect and guess the cause, but

“Even if there is a foreshadowing, it is not easy to notice.”

saying

[Even if there was a crystal ball that could see the future one day ahead,

Most investors will go bankrupt within one year]

The uncertainty of the information and

I have talked about the chaos of the economy, etc.

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Victor Hagani
James White
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Accordingly, capital management partners and CEOs

Victor Hagani and James White

To prove or refute what Nicholas Taleb said

To 118 MBA students from top universities in the U.S.

Provide $50 and a front page in the next day’s Wall Street Journal.

Invest in S&P 500 and 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds

Experiment to see how much profit you can make after 15 days

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In the newspapers of certain 15 days

– Maintain monetary policy, euro falls, consumer spending increases

– Orange juice price rises, biotech value surges, economic recovery

– Poor bank performance, decline in Bitcoin, increase in industrial production

Various information that can be used for investment was given, such as

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As a result, the average return was 3.2%

45% of experimenters lost money

16% of subjects went bankrupt

Of all 2,000 transactions by experimenters,

The direction hit rate for stocks and bonds was only 51.5%.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntaleb
FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS
My conjecture; expressed on
has been tested by Haghani et al.
Indeed they failed to really capitalize on information 1)
you don’t know
beforehand whatis noise & 2) overestimate the information (sizing)
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My recommendation for X is that providing news frames in advance does not increase performance.
Not reviewed by Haghani et al:
In fact, they failed to actually utilize the information. 1) What to know in advance
2) The information (size) frame is overestimated.

Regarding the results of this experiment, Nicholas Taleb

“See, I did that.”

He tweeted

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