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by hckrnrd 64 days ago
As a tick jockey myself, reading futures markets are like reading tomorrow’s NYT headline. These markets portend events with uncanny accuracy.
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spend more time on twitter. nyt is just twitter 16 hours late
Imagining that hurricane prediction cone they put on maps, Twitter encompasses the entire cone and then some. Someone on Twitter is gonna be right, but rarely the same person consistently.
I think you misunderstand. His comment about futures markets is equivalent to your comment about twitter. Neither of you are getting your news from NYT.
Futures are sometimes informed hours earlier than Twitter was the point