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16 Post author: Larks 08 October 2014 11:48PM

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 09 October 2014 05:19:18AM 15 points [-]

You may as well test an idea before trading on it, e.g. gather data about gender composition of a company + profitability, run a simulation, and see if someone trading based on this idea could expect to make money. One idea I've had is reading the Glassdoor.com reviews of what it's like to work at a company and trading based on those... I'm not sure to what extent the smart money is already taking that info in to account or whether it would have any predictive validity.