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Slackson comments on Open thread, 24-30 March 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Slackson 26 March 2014 11:08:49AM 1 point [-]

So I've kind of formulated a possible way to use markets to predict quantiles. It seems quite flawed looking back on it two and a half weeks later, but I still think it might be an interesting line of inquiry.

Comment author: Lumifer 26 March 2014 03:12:18PM *  5 points [-]

You want options (as in, the financial market instruments called "options").

A sufficiently deep and wide options market basically provides most of the market-expected distribution of the future value of the underlying.

Comment author: Slackson 26 March 2014 08:06:59PM 0 points [-]

Thanks.