Alpha Magazine Article
Through experiments that replicate what they see in the natural world, physicists have described its underlying principles. Thales is taking a similar approach with finance, using computers to model so-called agent simulations of thousands of traders. In one experiment Thales created a simulation with 10,000 traders, each owning the same portfolio of 15 stocks. After hearing news about one of these stocks, half of the simulated traders might buy it and the other half might sell.
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