What Gamblers During Half Time Of Games Can Tell Us About The Stock Market
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 16:20
in Mathematics & Economics
Gamblers behave differently during game time and lulls in action such as half-time. A computer-modeled comparison of their actions says there are corollaries between the actions of gamblers at half-time and people in the stock market. But how do behaviors change when no action is happening? Unlike the stock market, football gamblers are, more often than not, free of news about the game during half-time. Gamblers are simply left to their own devices which, the researchers suggest, is akin to identifying the complex interactions of stock market traders. read more