An Eye-Opening Look at Using “Game Theory” in the Markets
What do you get when you combine psychology, math, philosophy, and a mix of other academia? Game theory—which is a crystal ball of sorts, and if you are proficient at it you can use it to make money in the stock market. Game theory is used to quantify human behavior and predict the outcome of events, and has long been used in economics to try to predict the unpredictable.
Game theory is the process of modeling the strategic interaction between two or more “players” in a situation containing set rules and outcomes. It’s used in economics to analyze industries and companies by observing interactions. The underlying assumption in game theory is that people and corporations act in their own best interest in most situations, and based on certain data you can make strategic predictions.
Game theory takes into account any amount of potential interactions, but mostly:
- • Desired goal
- • Flexibility
- • Attention to the problem
- • Influence
Let’s say you want to use game theory to play the stock market. The stock market is definitely a multi-player game with millions of possibilities. Though game theory seems playful, often billions of dollars are at stake when using it to make decisions.
Cornell University’s website offers insight for you from Professor Aaron Brown: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2012/09/18/exploiting-game-theory-for-profit-in-the-stock-market/. He references “risk arbitrage,” as an example of how game theory can help you make money in real life. Risk arbitrage is a strategy of carefully analyzing the market by first identifying the players and decision makers. Next, through the lens of a constantly changing environment, you predict what companies, shareholders, and investment bankers will do. Then you create a strategy for your portfolio. One way to do this is to analyze the goals of all of the players, make assumptions for what is in their best interest, and make assumptions for the side effects of their actions to the market and the economy.
How “Game Theory” Fits Into Our Wealth Building Philosophy
The word we want to focus on when talking about any aspect of game theory and the stock market is “assumption”—in other words, calculated guessing. Most investors would never use game theory as an only method for trading, but as a tool in their arsenal with plenty of solid statistical analysis on the side.
There are many very interesting investment strategies, but we don’t recommend retirement your retirement on risk propositions based on assumptions. We recommend if you want to practice this strategy to learn as much about it as possible and do it with your extra money and never with your potential retirement savings.
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