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Re: VMM
From: |
Johannes Rohr |
Subject: |
Re: VMM |
Date: |
15 Oct 2002 16:51:35 +0200 |
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Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> and abstract point of view here. A German newspaper had a project running
> before election, where you could invest into shares of the political
> parties. After the election, you would get a percentage of the total money
> on the market according to the result in the election (eg, if the shares for
> Green party where traded at 8.3 EUR, and the result for the Green party would
> be
> 8.5%, it would be to your advantage to buy shares).
>
> The results were pretty good. Despite the total mess of this year's
> election, the general trends and approximate percentages where predicted
> correctly by the market. The results had been even better in earlier
> projects like this.
[...]
> If the theory is correct (under which conditions?), then it mightbe feasible
> to have a distributed VM system with an economic market model. There could
> be a price for pages, and the price might change depending on the demand.
> Of course, thinking this through requires a lot of more work. But it is an
> interesting idea nevertheless, I think.
Although I'm totally unqualified to deliver any comments on the
technical aspects of this idea, I think you have to take into
consideration that the most important "code" in the trading system you
described is the human mind. I assume that emulating the way the
latter one works would be unimaginably complicated, if not impossible.
Johannes
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