[bbers]

To beat the market you HAVE to predict what trades others will make in the future. It is easy to use math to make it appear to be a numbers game but that is just abstraction. The reality is that people buy and sell stocks for 1000s of different reasons.

[chasingsparks]

I use much less math than your average quant. I prefer simulations with a lot of agents. Think Game of Life, not partial differential equations.