100 Years: Charles Dow to Quants to Predictive Analytics for Everyone
High-frequency trading and quantitative financial analysis left most investors in the dust. Today modern advanced data analytics tools are giving all investors access to unique information.
Ask any behavioral finance theorist or even a psychologist, and they’ll tell you that people are hard wired to react to events and situations in an eerily consistent fashion. New predictive analytics technologies are coming to the forefront to handle all kinds of big data questions. For the financial markets, they are now able to provide the broader investment community with statistical validation of the predictive nature of price trends. Companies are also providing the transparency and probabilities to give investors the tools to utilize the statistics across investment functions. What took so long?