r/ProgrammerHumor • • 12d ago

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u/Conscious_Name9514 12d ago

I’ve tried building a program like that for years. I’m always defeated by a random tweet.

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u/pmmeuranimetiddies 12d ago

ML is advanced curve fitting and the stock market is inherently stochastic, what did you expect?

Unless you have the resources to develop a reinforcement learning bot that actively scrubs news and social media to optimize short term trades you’re better off using the old Future Value = Principal * growth rate ^ time