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RE: Why Financial Crises Will Continue To Occur As Long As Humans Run The Markets
What if there are just bots playing the market? What happens then?
What if there are just bots playing the market? What happens then?
Two scenarios that are fun to consider:
On a side note, the vast majority of money in the markets today is speculative (something close to 85 percent I've heard). This money is trying to capture value from pricing inefficiencies. If the inefficiencies disappear, will investors pull their money from the markets, compounding the low volume I mentioned in scenario 2? How much risk will this low volume create?
So all that said, I think an all-bot marketplace would force the capital markets to take on a much different (smaller) role in our economy... and would be boring :)
That's what I am thinking. Most people with bot/AI/algo trading POV think about building the best bot and are pretty myopic in their perspective. But what happens after the bot's change the actual landscape and the system adapts around them?
There's an an analogue to that in passive vs active mgmt. There's been huge inflows to the former and everyone touts it as superior due to lower fees. But how well does a passive fund perform in an all passive universe?
The bots will be consistently as good as their program. Then it becomes a challenge to have a smarter algorithm then the rest of the bots.
The market is a lot easier to manipulate if computer runs the market.