≈ Was it in a dream, was it just a dream? ≈
If you watch Mr. Musk’s interview to Joe Rogan, carefully, and obviously skipping all the nonsense that emerged from the pot part, you’re going to see that he is just a hardcore engineer with lots of ideas. The difference is that his ideas are disruptive, very uncommon and unpredictable. You can’t expect disruptive people to behave normally.
It’s when they start to talk about artificial intelligence that things become interesting. And creepy.
(E.M.) “I will not be able to hold the candle to AI.”
(J.R.) “[…] This is a genie that once it’s out of the bottle you’re never getting it back in.”
(E.M.) “That’s true.”
Joe then refers to Elon’s tweet about the Boston Dynamics robots. “In a few years that bot will move so fast you’ll need a strobe light to see it.”
I can’t think of something else but the financial markets. Trading robots have been around for quite a time but AI is taking over the landscape at an alarming rate. Last year, the firm EquBot launched the first retail ETF to be managed using IBM’s Watson supercomputing AI technology.
In a landscape like this, what we, mere mortal retail traders, can do?
We must have rules. Risk/reward, position sizing, and target rules become even more paramount. Cycles of boom and bust can go on forever when measured in human time, but trading robots with AI capabilities can move so fast we will need a strobe light to see them trading.
~Seemed so very real, it seemed so real to me.~
Chart of the Day
SPY, 2018
SPY has been all over the place for almost the entire year. From February ’til today, lots of gaps and corrections. A horrible, choppy and noisy chart for the untrained and unaware trader. Rules are the antidote for this chaos.
Video of the Day
Joe Rogan – Elon Musk on Artificial Intelligence
Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1169
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Episode 293: Entering the Hall of Fame with Beth Salamanca
Beth Salamanca, one of the latest Legacy Hall of Fame inductees, joins us this week for episode 293 of the Trading Justice podcast. Beth shares her formula for success in this very insightful podcast.
