• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    That may be how it is now. AI will be employed to make stock trades independently very soon if it hasn’t started yet.

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      7 months ago

      Have you even used ChatGPT? Its slow as fuck.

      HFT is trading within milliseconds. Not trading within dozens-of-seconds.

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        7 months ago

        That is because you are relying on connecting to their servers rather than having your own extremely powerful ones.

        Also, this would be a completely different sort of AI than a glorified chatbot.

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          Also, this would be a completely different sort of AI than a glorified chatbot.

          Uh huh. So you’re just spitballing I take it.

          Name the algorithm. What’s the AI algorithm that’s about to take over the high frequency trading world? A .pdf or citation to a journal would also be nice, something that explains why this new hypothetical algorithm you’re talking about is better than the HFT / Arbitrage that I talked about earlier.

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            Yes, of course I’m spitballing. Because I said it likely hasn’t happened yet. I’m not sure why you would expect me to name the algorithm for something that hasn’t happened yet.

            Are you under the impression that it’s not possible?

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              Yes. People have been trying to use AI as a statistical method for making money for literally fucking decades. Neural nets, genetic algorithms, statistical sampling, etc. etc. etc.

              All you end up making 99% of the time is a volatility and/or momentum bot. Either a bot that makes tons of money when the stocks are predictable, or a bot that makes tons of money when stocks have wild unpredictable swings. When the opposite happens (ex: volatility is less than expected, or greater than expected), the bots collapse and you lose like $10 million bucks and everyone shuts down the bot. Every single time.

              Its not even clear how you’re supposed to “test” a trading bot. Everyone’s got ridiculous ideas and “new AI” algorithms that try every few weeks, and they all fail before the unpredictability that is the market.

              And then it turns out that you could have traded on volatility by just buying VIX and holding it anyway. So if you want a glorified volatility trader, there’s easier ways to do so than spending $millions on developers and $millions on computers and hooking it up to a $100-million bank account and praying for the best.

              Just put the $100 million into VIX (or short-VIX) and bam. You roughly accomplish the same thing except it didn’t cost you $million developers or $million computers.


              The stuff that makes money are like, Black Scholes differential equations (which are extremely fast. No "AI’ here, just numerical methods that directly compute a price). Of course, Bvlack Scholes is what they teach in college so everyone knows it. The secret sauce is the stuff that all the firms add to their computers and keep literally secret.

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                  I work in computers.

                  When it starts to happen, it will be a paper in a research journal. Then it will be years as people analyze the paper and come to undersstanding of what the new stuff can do.

                  Things don’t just “pop up” magically without warning. There’s papers, journals, discussions. If we aren’t even at the “discussion” point yet, its kind of worthless to spend more thought on it.


                  All this “ChatGPT” thing is an advanced neural network. Those things were first discovered in 1960s, Tensors (ie: applications of neural nets to SIMD compute) was 90s / 00s thing, and NVidia GPU optimizations to the models were researched through the 2010s.

                  I can reliably count on research taking decades. Because computers, algorithms, and AI is very difficult. Anyone paying attention in this field will see it coming.

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                    Again, I’m not talking about ChatGPT. That is an entirely different type of AI from which I am talking about, something you should understand since you “work in computers.”

                    There wouldn’t be scientific studies of using AI, again- NOT ChatGPT- to predict the stock market if there were no way to do it. Or at least, those studies would say so. They don’t.

                    For example:

                    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291124000615