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Comment by ikeboy

If over time, your forecasts predictably change, then you can be arbitraged.

If e.g. I know that you'll have a probability below 40% at some point in the future, and I know you'll have a number above 41% at some point in the future, then it's trivial to create a strategy over time that is guaranteed to make money.

Taleb's claim, as I understand it, is that Silver is incorporating random noise into his model and so will exhibit such predictably swings, which enables arbitrage.

parent ikeboy 7 years ago

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