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by danielmarkbruce 1796 days ago
I guess I'm not even saying it's bad/good faith. I just literally wonder - why not do the obvious thing? A number of years ago I ran into several people trying to sell services predicting stock movements via twitter sentiment. Same thing - if it works just make billions fast using it to take positions. It's not trivially easy to start a hedge fund, but it's not rocket science either. The key ingredient is finding a way to make good returns. These twitter people seemed to have good intent.. it was just strange.