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Market Rhythms, from James Sogi
January 19, 2009 |
The market has had a daily rhythm known in the blues as a shuffle; di dah, di dah, di dah. You might also hear this in William Tell's overture.
Marlowe Cassetti replies:
An interesting thought. Has anyone transcribed market movements to a musical score and does the playing this "music" have any predictive significance?
Dr. Janice Dorn comments:
Tom Hamilton has done some interesting work in this area. I have his CD, London Fix–Music Changing With The Price Of Gold.
I do not believe there is predictive significance, but I have not tested this.
Marlowe Cassetti writes:
I listened to the excerpt of "London Fix" and it is beautiful. Certainly not random tones.
Last year I built a mole chaser that comprised of a micro-chip that generated random tones. While testing it on my workbench I literally got nauseated listening to it. My wife forbid me from running it in the house. The moles weren't too fond of it either.
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NPR just did a piece on Wednesday or Thursday about how the beat variance in music on the top 100 list changes with the markets. From memory, I believe what they found was that there was larger beat variance during bear markets with bull markets being charaterized by relatively little beat variance on the top 100.