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From: Ron Macken <rmacken@calon.com>
Subject: Re: GAs and investment strategies/economic forecasting
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diedrich@hermes1.econ.uni-hamburg.de (Holger Diedrich) wrote:

> Do you think that one can really get rich with GAs in this field in the way 
> that you beat the market constantly by your forecasts?
> 
> Could it even be that some people have already become rich with it - but don't 
> talk about it for obvious reasons?
> 

While this isn't directly related, in McNeill and Freiberger's book
FUZZY LOGIC on page 220, they describe two fuzzy programs designed to
beat the market.  One program lost more than 50% during the slide of
the Nikkei (89-92) and the other one makes more than $770,000 per
month on short term strategies.

GA's and related techniques are great at exploring very large
search spaces.  If there are market opportunities out there, I'm sure
it's possible to write a program that will discover them.

This is also an area of interest to me.  I'd love to hear about other
people's experiences and sources of information.

Thanks!

Ron
